Evening News Headlines (January 4, 2019)

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

—    Odisha clears 9 invest proposals with an investment of Rs 1177.41 crore.

—    Graduate Constables & Havildars of Odisha Police to probe offences under certain minor Acts having punishment up to 3-yrs.

—    Album Actress Death: Bolangir police detains husband from Bolangir.

—    Over 200 persons taken ill after consuming food at a feast organized during foundation stone-laying ceremony of a bridge at Julunda in Sonepur yesterday.

—    NDRF: Odisha Fire Services today pumped out water from old shaft & water receded by 3.5 ft. CIL inserted pump into old shaft & connections of pipes is still on. Pumping of water from main shaft is also expected by tomorrow. Navy  and NDRF personnel had not been able to reach the trapped miners.

—    Decomposed carcass of a tusker found inside Karanjia forest division of Mayurbhanj district.

—    BJD launches signature campaign against change in scholarship funding pattern for Scheduled Caste students.

—    Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch to probe financial fraud by Jyoti Ranjan Beura alias ‘Golden Baba’.

—    Rs 9 lakh looted from a businessman near Andhra Bank branch at New Colony in Rayagada.

—    Indian Air Force (IAF) procurement was weakest under the UPA regime: Nirmala Sitharaman.

—    Iran to send warships to the Atlantic, closer to US waters.

—    Civilian critically injured after being shot at by gunmen in J&K’s Pulwama.

—    Karnataka: Tax rates on petrol and diesel have been revised to 32% and 21% from 28.75% and 17.73%, respectively.

—    Anshu Kumar Bhuyan of Odisha bags both singles & doubles title in AITA Men’s 50K tennis tournament.