Keeping eyes on the soaring heat wave in the state, the Odisha govt ordered the closure of all schools till April 20.
Bhubaneswar, Apr 17: Keeping eyes on the soaring heat wave in the state, the Odisha Govt ordered the closure of all schools from April 18 to April 20.
A notification to this effect is issued by the School and Mass Education Department.
#Odisha Govt orders closure of schools till April 20 in view of heat wave situation#heatwave #HeatwaveAlert pic.twitter.com/To1Ez0myFh — Argus News (@ArgusNews_in) April 17, 2024
All educational institutions including government, government-aided, and privately-managed schools will remain shut for the next 3 days, i.e. April 18 to 20.
Narayanpur, Apr 30: Four Naxals were gunned down in an ongoing encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district.
Sharing details of the ongoing exchange of fire, a police officer informed that a joint security team from the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and the Special Task Force (STF) were involved in the operation.
"The encounter between personnel from the DRG and STF and Naxalites is underway in Abujhmad of Narayanpur-Kanker border area since this morning," the officer told ANI.
"We can confirm that four Naxals have been killed and many others were injured in the ongoing operation with the forces in the Narayanpur district. All security personnel are safe," the officer added.
Further details are awaited.
Earlier, on April 5, a Naxal was killed in an encounter with the forces in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada.
The exchange of fire went down in a forest in the Kirandul police station limits when District Reserve Guard (DRG), Bastar Fighters and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were out on an anti-Naxal operation, an officer said.
"The operation was launched on the basis of inputs about the presence of Maoists in Purangel, Badepalli, Doditumnar and Gampur areas. At the end of the exchange of fire, the body of a Naxalite, a man, and his weapon were recovered from the spot," the official said.
(ANI)
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Lucknow, Apr 30: Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will lock horns with Mumbai Indians (MI) in their penultimate home game on Tuesday.
Lucknow are sitting fifth with five wins in nine games while Mumbai are ninth with just three wins to their name.
The two teams have met four time in the tournament so far with LSG winning three of them.
LSG v MI head-to-head 4-
Mumbai Indians: 1
Lucknow Super Giants: 3
LSG v MI match time: The match starts at 7:30 PM IST (2:00 PM GMT) with the toss taking place half an hour before the match i.e., 7:00 PM (1:30 PM GMT)
LSG v MI match venue: Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow
Live broadcast of LSG v MI match on television in India: The LSG v MI match will be broadcast live via Star Sports Network.
Live stream in India: The live streaming of LSG v MI will be available on JioCinema.
Squads:
Lucknow Super Giants: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Matt Henry, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Arshin Kulkarni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Manimaran Siddharth, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Mayank Yadav, Kyle Mayers, Ashton Turner, Prerak Mankad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Devdutt Padikkal, Arshad Khan, Shamar Joseph
Mumbai Indians: Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Mohammad Nabi, Piyush Chawla, Luke Wood, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Shams Mulani, Dewald Brevis, Kumar Kartikeya, Shreyas Gopal, Harvik Desai, Gerald Coetzee, Romario Shepherd, Arjun Tendulkar, Shivalik Sharma, Anshul Kamboj, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka.
(IANS)
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