ONI Bureau: — Four personalities from Odisha, including CJI Dipak Misra (rank 3), CM Naveen Patnaik (rank 30), Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan (rank 32) & Additional Principal Secretary to Prime Minister PK Mishra (rank 44) find place in the list of “100 most powerful Indians” prepared by The Indian Express.
— Ex-union minister Chandrasekhar Sahu, Bikram Panda & district president Mr Gantayat officially resign from Congress, to join BJD on April 4.
— Pinak Mishra takes charge as Berhampur SP.
— Videography not to be done during Srimandir Ratna Bhandar inspection.
— ‘Ashtadhatu’ idols of Nrusinghanath temple that were missing since Jan 9 found abandoned under a tree near Rendhagad river bank in Brahmagiri.
— Rs 16,500 cr vote-on-account passed in Odisha Assembly, House adjourned till Saturday.
— MoS MEA VK Singh to visit Iraq on 1 April to bring back mortal remains of 39 Indians, who were killed by ISIS in Mosul.
— Good Friday observed across India today.
— Postcard News founder Mahesh Hegde arrested by Central Crime Branch on charges of running fake & communally sensitive news.
— Railway Minister Piyush Goyal flagged off newly extended harbour line section between Andheri and Goregaon.
— Karnataka Elections 2018: Congress MLA from Afzalpur, Malikayya Guttedar, expelled from Congress party for six years.
— System failure detected in baggage handling system at Delhi Airport, thousands of bags reported to be misplaced.
— Lalu Prasad Yadav was referred from RIMS Ranchi to AIIMS New Delhi. He has mild localised infection and high blood sugar.
— External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj meets Japanese Prime Minister ShinzoAbe in Tokyo; delivered press statement after 9th India-Japan Foreign Minister’s Strategic Dialogue.
— Sachin urges fans to give banned Australian players ‘some space’.
— Fire on a bus carrying migrant workers to factories near Bangkok has killed 20 people.
— Russia to expel 60 US diplomats.
— Earthquake of magnitude 6.9 occurred in New Britain region of Papua New Guinea.