Afternoon News Headlines (March 5, 2018)

ONI Bureau: — ECI issues notification for election to Rajya Sabha seats from Odisha. Nominations to continue till March 12 from today & voting on March 23.

— Oxygen shortage reported at Koraput medical college and hospital, patients being shifted to private hospitals.

— Orissa High Court Bar Association calls off cease-work agitation; to resume duty from tomorrow.

— CBSE Class X and Class XII Board examinations for 2018 begins in Odisha.

— Odisha CM launches ‘Ama Gaon Ama Bikash’ programme.

— Orissa High Court Bar Association calls off cease-work agitation; to resume duty from tomorrow.

— Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh orders CBI probe into SSC Exam Scam.

— Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to travel to Mumbai for further medical checkup.

— Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day after ruckus over PNB Scam.

— J&K: Two bodies of terrorists and four other bodies recovered in Shopian last night.

— Supreme Court issued notice to the Badminton Association of India (BAI) on hearing a plea which said there has to be a uniform sports code.

— Oscars 2018: Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand named best actors; Best film award goes to the ‘The Shape of Water’.