Morning News Headlines (December 29, 2018)

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

—   Cold Wave sweeps Odisha: Daringbadi records lowest at 6 degree Celsius while mercury stays at 7 degrees in Phulbani. Similarly, Angul records 6.6, Keonjhar (6.9), Sundergarh (6.9) & Bhubaneswar 9.5 degree Celsius.

—   Former Lokpal of Odisha justice Krishna Prasad Mohapatra passes away at 93.

—   Odisha CM requests Railways Ministry to sanction missing link Projects in Mayurbhanj dist, offers land.

—   Fire services team from Odisha to start rescue operations to save 13 trapped miners in coal mines in Meghalaya; operations to rescue miners underway for the 18th day.

—   Odisha Congress to begin election campaign from January 9.

—   Odisha: 2 new ‘Mo Bus’ routes between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack to start from today.

—   Two trucks set on fire after youth’s death in Balangir town.

—   Girl student’s body found hanging in IGH Nursing Hoster in Rourkela, suicide suspected.

—   Indian Army has rescued around 2500 tourists who were stuck in Sikkim near Nathu La, close to the India-China border due to heavy snowfall

—   Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) gives TV viewers another month to select channels; extended deadline till January 31, 2019.

—   PM Narendra Modi announces Rs 4,500 crore assistance to Bhutan

—   Bihar: BJP leader and MLC Suraj Nandan Kushwaha passes away after a cardiac arrest.

—   Delhi Metro is all set to open the Lajpat Nagar-Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 section of Pink Line on December 31.

—   INDvAUS 3rd Test Day 4: Australia 44/2 at lunch, need 355 more runs to win.

—   Earthquake of 7.2 magnitude strikes southern Philippines island of Mindanao.