Evening News Headlines (January 16, 2019)

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

—    Delivery of a baby by a Class VIII girl student in the hostel premises; BJP calls for 12-hour Kandhamal bandh tomorrow.

—    A minor girl allegedly raped after being lured with a chocolate by a person in Baisinga area of Baripada.

—    Odisha-cadre IPS Satyajit Naik appointed SP of National Investigation Agency (NIA).

—    Odisha: After Jharsuguda MLA Naba Kishore Das resigned from Congress today, MLA Jogesh Singh likely to quit Congress.

—    Odisha Govt creates 108 Posts in Women and Child Development department.

—    As many as 56 infants were branded with hot iron in Bardapal panchayat of Keonjhar on Tuesday.

—    CM Naveen Patnaik urges Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to sanction project proposals worth Rs 1261.98 crore under Central Road Fund Scheme.

—    BSE has written a letter to Odisha Crime Branch; seeks probe into OTET paper question leak.

—    Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Act, 2019 received assent of the President of India on 10th January.

—    Reserve Bank of India has approved the re-appointment of Vishakha Mulye as Executive Director of the ICICI Bank for a period of two years.

—    President Ram Nath Kovind appoints Justice Sanjiv Khanna, judge of Delhi High Court, to be a judge of the Supreme Court of India.

—    Selection Panel to meet on Jan 24 to decide on the new CBI director.

—    D Gukesh, a resident of Tamil Nadu becomes India’s youngest & the world’s second youngest Chess Grandmaster.