Afternoon News Headlines (July 27, 2018)

ONI Bureau:   —–  “Green Odisha” campaign by Biju Yuva Vahini for plantation of 30 lakh saplings launched by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at Kalinga Stadium.

—– Mamata Dalai of Kendrapara to receive ‘Jeevan Raksha Padak’ on August 15.

—– CM Naveen Patnaik confers 1st “Md. Sikandar Alam Award” on noted Odia singer Pranab Pattnaik at the state secretariat in Bhubaneswar.

—– 2,000 farmers of each district to get Android smartphones; Rs 3 crore to be spent for the project: Minister SN Patro.

—– Hundreds of villagers stage demonstration in front of Jahada panchayat office in Dharakote over irregularities in fund allocation for construction of toilets.

—– Industrialist Naveen Jindal meets Odisha Chief Secretay AP Padhi to discuss rising prices of iron ore and coal in the State.

—– Sex racket running from a rented house at Shaktinagar busted by Ainthapalli police in Sambalpur.

—– Kandhamal: Sarangada Police Station gheraoed and Baliguda-Phulbani road blocked by villagers as dead body of a local was found from padangi forest on July 2; protesters demand immediate arrest of the accused.

—– Nation remembers people’s President, Missile Man of India & Bharat Ratna, APJ Abdul Kalam on his Death Anniversary.

—– Modi, Rahul greet people on Guru Purnima.

—– Four held in J&K policeman murder case.

—– Punjab CM acquitted in decade-old graft case.

—– Of 18 states ruled by BJP, only one is in top five best-governed ones: Study.

—– Himachal Pradesh: Earthquake of magnitude 3.8 struck Kangra district at 1342 hours.

—– US ready to work with Pakistan’s new leadership: State Department.