Evening News Headlines (March 31, 2018)

ONI Bureau:  — First phase of Budget Session of Odisha Assembly concludes; Rs 16,500 cr vote-on-account for the first month of FY 2018-19 passed.

— Attack on BJP leaders at Sohela in Bargarh: MLA Rabi Nayak sits on dharna inside Odisha Assembly protesting attack.

— Odisha CM flags off special digital literacy bus ‘World on Wheels’ at the state Secretariat in Bhubaneswar today.

— Odisha Govt extends tenure of Mines director Deepak Mohanty by six months.

— 30 gm brown sugar seized from Haladiapada slum in Bhubaneswar.

— Heavy rain & hailstorm in many parts of India; several asbestos houses reportedly damaged due to hailstones in Remuna of Balasore.

— Odisha CM to dedicate Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Setu tomorrow.

— Class 12 Hindi paper circulating on social media is fake: CBSE.

— Mohammad Ashraf who was a former terrorist and was working as Special Police Officer (SPO) in Jammu And Kashmir Police, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Pulwama. He was attacked by terrorists today.

— Former Manipur CM R.K. Dorendra Singh passes away at 83, cremated with state honours.

— Burqa-clad Muslim women march in Mumbai for roll-back of aTriple Talaq’ Bill.

— Man accused of raping a minor girl, allegedly beaten to death by locals in Ghaziabad’s Chaman Vihar Colony.

— Mehbooba Mufti appeals to Kashmiri Pandits to visit Valley.

— Karnataka: Mallikarjun Khuba, JDS MLA from Basavakalyan resigns from the party, will join BJP.

— Court rejected the bail plea of Union Minister Ashwini Choubey’s son Arijit Shashwat in Bhagalpur communal violence case.

— Stephen Hawking’s funeral held in Cambridge.

— 30 militants killed in Afghanistan.

— BCCI appoints former DGP (Rajasthan) Ajit Singh as Head, Anti-Corruption Unit.

— IPL 2018: Hales replaces Warner in Sunrisers Hyderabad.

— Super Cup: Upbeat Bengaluru FC to face Gokulam Kerala at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.