Evening News Headlines (December 9, 2017)

ONI Bureau:  — Odisha CM inaugurates Folk & Tribal Art Museum at Barkul near Chilika.

— Balasore: College student arrested with 20 gm brown sugar in Jaleswar area.

— First phase of polling ends, 68% voter turnout recorded in the first phase of Gujarat Election 2017.

— 4 jawans dead, 1 injured after a CRPF jawan opened fire in Bijapur’s Basaguda CRPF Camp.

— Direct Tax Collections for Financial Year 2017-18 up by 14.4%.

— Panama Papers Case: ED seizes properties worth Rs. 10.35 crore in form of mutual funds from Whitefield Chemtech Pvt. Ltd.

— Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 hit Jammu & Kashmir at 4.13 pm today.

— Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi declares ‘end of the war against IS’ in Iraq.

— Egypt’s Coptic Pope rejects meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence over Jerusalem.