Afternoon News Headlines (July 26, 2018)

ONI Bureau:  —–  ORHDC scam: Orissa High Court rejects plea challenging conviction of tainted IAS officer Vinod Kumar & 4 others by lower Vigilance Court.

—–  Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik inaugurates the Gurupriya bridge in Malkangiri.

—–  Inmates of Laxmipur Barja SST school hostel in Narayanpatna, Koraput lock themselves up inside hostel protesting low quality food.

—–  Body of a youth found hanging from ceiling of a hotel room in Patia.

—–  Kanha, the Odisha boy with rare genetic syndrome undergoes surgery at MKCG

—–  Five sluice gates of Hairkud Dam closed; flood water being discharged through 12 gates.

—–  Chandrashekharpur police nabs notorious thief, recovers stolen properties.

—–  Bengal Assembly pass resolution to rename state as ‘Bangla’.

—–  Kullu: Bridge over Brahmganga rivulet in Parvati valley’s Manikara washed away in flash flood following heavy rain in the district.

—–  One terrorist killed in the encounter between security forces and terrorists in J&K’s Handwara; Encounter underway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Handwara.

—–  Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) seeks report by tomorrow from Delhi Police on the matter of death of three girls of a family in Delhi’s Mandawali due to malnutrition.

—–  Haryana Government grants a sum of Rs 8 lakh to the kin of Rakbar Khan, who died in the Alwar lynching case.

—–  Re-development of 7 South Delhi colonies: Delhi High Court seeks a complete record from Centre on the consideration of granting environment clearance to redevelopment of residential project and continued the ban the axing of 16,500 trees.

—–  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar recommends CBI probe into shelter home rapes.

—–  South Africa: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Michel Temer, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Africas President Cyril Ramaphosa at BRICS Summit in Johannesburg.

—–  Pakistan Elections 2018: PTI’s Sadaqat Ali Abbasi defeats PML-N’s Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the former prime minister of Pakistan, in NA-57 Murree, unofficial results from all polling stations.