Evening News Headlines (March 15, 2017)

* Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik requested Union Health Minister JP Nadda to extend financial assistance to Odisha for establishing four new Regional Cancer Centres in the state.

* Odisha School and Mass Education Minister Debi Prasad Mishra directed the CHSE Examination Controller to submit a detail report within two weeks regarding the ongoing question papers mess.

* Odisha police arrested three persons when they were trying to deposit 9 fake currency notes of Rs 2000 denomination at a SBI branch in Bargarh.

* A Sukhoi 30 plane of the Indian Air Force crashed near an air base in Rajasthan’s Barmer; both pilots are reported to be safe.

* The ED has summoned Jammu and Kashmir-based separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik in connection with FEMA cases.

* Aiming to consolidate bilateral naval relations, Commander-in-Chief of Russian Navy Vladimir Korolev today held wide-ranging talks with Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba in New Delhi .

* US President Donald Trump paid 38 million dollars tax on more than 150 million dollars income in 2005, the White House Said.

* The set of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film “Padmavati” was vandalised by unidentified persons at Mhasai Pathar in Kolhapur district.

—By Insight News Desk.