Afternoon News Headlines (March 19, 2018)

ONI Bureau:  — Odisha Govt hikes salary of tutors, senior/junior resident doctors working at govt hospitals; contractual tutor to get Rs 75,000, senior and junior resident doctor to get Rs 65,000 and Rs 55,000.

— Both UPA and NDA neglected Odisha’s long standing demand for special category status; we will clear our stand on No Confidence Motion raised by TDP: CM Naveen Patnaik.

— Students of RD Women’s University scuffle with police during demonstration on retention of autonomous status.

— Police to take Bunti Agarwal, prime accused in Fake TDR case, on 3-day remand.

— Chhattisgarh: 10 naxals surrendered before the police in Kondagaon.

— JD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav found guilty in fourth case of Fodder Scam; former Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra pronounced not guilty.

— Karnataka cabinet has given nod to the recommendation of separate religion for Lingayat community.

— Bihar: Narendra Singh of Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) joins JDU in the presence of CM Nitish Kumar in Patna.

— BJP Parliamentary party meeting to be held on 23rd March at party headquarters in Delhi.

— Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Union minister Nitin Gadkari filed a joint application for seeking of withdrawn of the defamation case in Delhi’s Patiala House Court.

— Supreme Court today admitted the appeal filed by Hemraj’s wife, for further hearing in the Aarushi Talwar murder case.