Morning News Headlines (July 24, 2018)

—–  Season’s first flood water to be released from Hirakud Dam at 11am today.

—–  CM Naveen Patnaik to inaugurate Green Mahanadi Mission, massive plantation programme on the banks of Mahanadi, in Boudh & Subarnapur today.

—–  Locals nab a looter and hand over to police while his 2 associates manage to flee after snatching Rs 19,000 from a truck driver near RTO office in Angul.

—–  Adhara Pana to be offered to three deities on their respective chariots in Puri today.

—–  Ishwar Chandra Panigrahi appointed as Koraput district president.

—–  Keonjhar: HIV infected youth allegedly commits suicide by hanging himself in Anandpur. He lost mental balance after being denied treatment by hospitals in Cuttack, Keonjhar and Bhadrak.

—–  Election Commission has announced dates for by-election for south Tura Assembly constituency in Meghalaya. The polling will be held on 23rd August and counting on 27th August.

—–  Four killed in LPG cylinder blast in UP.

—–  1,282 pilgrims leave for Amarnath Yatra.

—–  Supreme Court allows Karti Chidambram to travel abroad with conditions.

—–  All PDP office-bearers submit resignations to Mehbooba.

—–  India extends $200-mn credit lines to Rwanda, announces new diplomatic mission.

—–  The Indian Community in Rwanda’s Kigali chants ‘Modi,Modi’, as PM Modi leaves the dais after addressing them.

—–  More than 20 people have died in fires in an area close to Athens.

—–  The world will witness the longest lunar eclipse to date, which will last for an hour and forty-five minutes, on Friday.

—–  30,000 affected as slum demolished in Kenya.