Afternoon News Headlines (December 22, 2018)

ONI Bureau:  Good Afternoon Readers! Here are the Afternoon News Bulletin on Odisha, India and World by Odisha News Insight.

—   Kolkata-Bengaluru IndiGo flight 822 makes emergency landing at Biju Patnaik International Airport; a passenger falls sick, dies while being shifted to Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar. Deceased identified as Rajkumar Karmakar of Malda, West Bengal.

—   Tigress Renuka gives birth to 2 tiger cubs in Nandankanan Zoo, tiger count mounts to 28.

—   Odisha CM to inaugurate Kalinga Nagar Mahotsav in Jajpur today.

—   An elephant tramples woman to death in Sudangapur village in Ganjam district.

—   295 grams of brown sugar worth Rs 29.50 lakh seized in Khurda, two held.

—   Rourkela: Builder arrested for orchestrating fake attack on self.

—   GST rate cut:  33 items have come down from 18% to 12% & 5% as they are common man’s consumption goods; rate cuts on ACs, hybrid cars.

—   J&K Governor announces Compensation for 6 Killed in Uttarakhand landslide.

—   Punjab National Bank officer abducted, shot dead in Bihar.

—   Congress to file an appeal in the Herald house eviction case.

—   1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Sajjan Kumar moves SC, files appeal against his conviction by Delhi High Court.

—   Congress Appoints H.K. Patil as Karnataka Campaign Committee Chairman.

—   HK Patil appointed new Karnataka Congress campaign committee Chairman.

—   US government partially shuts down for 3rd time in 2018.

—   Cricketer Sanju Samson ties the knot with classmate.