Evening News Headlines (October 2, 2018)

ONI Bureau:  —–    Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik launches state’s own food security programme through video conferencing at State Secretariat; 15.74 lakh beneficiaries enrolled with target to cover 25 lakh beneficiaries by March 2019.

—–    Mechanical sweeping of roads to check air pollution introduced in Bhubaneswar.

—–    ‘Sambidhan Banchao’ conference underway at Congress Bhawan in Bhubaneswar; many senior leaders of the party present along with expelled BJD leader Damodar Rout.

—–    BJP Women Activist-Police scuffle: BJP general secretary Lekhashree Samantsinghar alleges misbehaviour citing male police personnel were deployed instead of female cops.

—–    Dama Rout attends public rally at Nrurtanga of Mahanga for the first time after his expulsion from BJD.

—–    Ravenshaw will not be declared sine die: VC Ishan Patro.

—–    PM Modi inaugurates first assembly of International Solar Alliance in the presence of UN Secretary General António Guterres at Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi.

—–    Mumbai: Three persons including a 3-year-old girl drowned in a well at Dikshit road in Vile Parle today.

—–    Arthur Ashkin (US), Gerard Mourou (France) and Donna Strickland (Canada) will get the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.