Afternoon News Headlines (December 28, 2017)

ONI Bureau:  — India successfully test-fires Supersonic Interceptor Missile off Odisha coast.

— Who gave Barabati VVIP gallery pass to chit fund accused Subhankar Nayak needs to be probed: former OCA secretary Ashirbad Behera.

— Time has come to work together, says Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik on Congress Foundation Day.

— Triple Talaq bill tabled in Lok Sabha: Govt calls it a historic day.

— Jadhav Ji’s mother who only wears a saree was forced to wear salwar-kurta. Bindi, bangles & mangalsutras of both mother & wife were removed. Both the married women were made to like widows: EAM Sushma Swaraj in Rajya Sabha.

— Andhra Pradesh: Four students killed in road accident due to foggy conditions.

— Pakistan violates ceasefire in J-K’s Poonch, India retaliates.

— TTV Dhinakaran meets VK Sasikala at Parappana Agrahara Central Jail in Bengaluru.

— Sri Lanka releases 69 Tamil Nadu fishermen.

— At least 40 people killed in a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan; Over 40 injured.