Evening News Headlines (October 20, 2018)

ONI Bureau:   —–    Immersion ceremony of Goddess Durga underway in Bhubaneswar & Cuttack.

—–   Durga Idol Immersion: Cuttack-bound traffic advised to take Jaydev Vihar-Nandan Kanan road rather than NH- 16 to avoid congestion.

—–   Four minors drown in separate incidents in Odisha.

—–   Assam: 7 dead, more than 20 injured, after an Assam State Transport Corporation bus lost control and fell in a pond between Guwahati and Mukalmua.

—–   32 NDRF teams have been deployed in various districts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh following the threat of sudden flood from a temporary lake that has been formed due to a landslide that blocked the mainstream of Brahmaputra River in the Tibet Autonomous Region: NDRF.

—–   5 killed in West Bengal road accident.

—–   Amritsar train tragedy: Amarinder orders magisterial probe; Minister denies Railways’ lapse in Amritsar tragedy.

—–   Woman, 52, allowed inside Sabarimala temple after initial protests.

—–   Jammu and Kashmir: Encounter breaks out between terrorists & security forces in Pulwama’s Pathan. More details awaited.

—–   Maninder Singh quits as Additional Solicitor General (ASG).

—–   10 vehicles torched in Jharkhand clashes.

—–   Vice President Venkaiah Naidu pays floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi statue in Belgium’s Antwerp.

—–   Indian Shuttler Kidambi Srikanth bows out of Denmark Open.