Morning News Odisha (October 31, 2018)

ONI Bureau:  —–    India conducts successful night trail of Agni-1 Ballistic Missile off the Odisha coast last night.

—–    Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan flags off the ‘Run for Unity’ to mark the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Bhubaneswar.

—–    Air Odisha to loose its license for arbitrary suspension of flight services in Jharsuguda. If required agreement with Air Odisha will be cancelled; a tender will be floated for regular operation of flights; talks with Indian Airlines, SpiceJet and IndiGo underway: Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

—–    A herd of elephants from West Bengal entered Mayurbhanj’s Rasgovindpur. Locals allege that the elephants enter the village and destroy crops every year.

—–    OPCC President Niranjan Patnaik and several Congress activists pay floral tribute to the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at her statue on her death anniversary in IG Park.

—–    Supreme Court will hear a petition on Puri Bandh violence today.

—–    Sudarsan Pattnaik pays tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 143rd birth anniversary with a sand art at Puri sea beach.

—–    Annual Terracotta Exhibition ‘Mruttika’ began at Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.

—–    L Eswar Rao, a miniature artist from Bhubaneswar’s Jatni, made a miniature model of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s Statue Of Unity.

—–    SBI ATM found vandalised at Baghmari bazaar chaak; ATM sealed by police.

—–    Manganese-laden truck seized in Rayagada while being transported to Andhra Pradesh; 5 arrested.