1. Farmer organisations on Saturday rejected the government’s offer of making significant changes to the contentious farm bills at a meeting which lasted for nearly five hours, and instead demanded the laws be repealed.
2. People have a right to demonstrate peacefully and authorities should let them do so, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said on the farmers’ protests in India.
3. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said the first phase of the Mumbai- Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway from Nagpur to Shirdi will be thrown open to public on May 1, 2021.
4. Kolkata Police has decided to re-impose the "no helmet no petrol" rule forbidding petrol pumps from selling fuel to motorcyclists without helmets, a senior officer told PTI.
5. Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that schools for Classes 1 to 8 in the state will remain shut till 31 March, 2021, in view of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
6. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday inaugurated a major National Highway project in Nagaland and laid a foundation stone for 14 other NH projects with a cost of about ₹4,127 crores.
7. Tata Power Co. Ltd on Friday announced that it has received the Letter of Intent (LOI) for supplying electricity to the consumers of two electricity distribution companies (discoms) in Odisha—the Western Electricity Supply Company of Odisha Ltd (WESCO) and the Southern Electricity Supply Utility of Odisha Ltd (SOUTCO).
8. The one-year-old Shiv Sena-NCP- Congress government in Maharashtra got a shot in the arm on Friday as the ruling coalition won four of the five Legislative Council seats from the Graduates' and Teachers' quota.
9. Covaxin is a two-dose anti-coronavirus vaccine and Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij, who had volunteered for its phase-three trial, was given only the first dose, the Union Health Ministry clarified on Saturday hours after the minister announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19.
10. 36 British lawmakers have written to the foreign secretary Dominic Raab seeking the intervention of the government on the farmers' issue in India. 
11. The Canadian Prime Minister had recently backed the agitating farmers in India, saying his country will always be there to defend the rights of peaceful protests.
12. TRS leader and former Minister Kamatham Ram Reddy died here. He was 81. He was a three-time MLA from Parigi Assembly segment in Rangareddy district in combined Andhra Pradesh.
13. The ruling TRS looked all set to retain control of the city civic body, winning 41 of the 150 seats so far, while BJP's high profile campaign appeared to have paid off, with the party winning 22.
14. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has highlighted that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in a critical state and deteriorating as climate change warms up the waters in which it lies.
15. India has potential to export motherboards, technically called printed circuit board assembly(PCBA), worth up to Rs 8 lakh crore between 2021-26, mobile devices industry body ICEA and EY said in a joint report.
16. The Supreme Court (SC) has held that lottery, gambling and betting are taxable under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Act, 2017.
17. Petrol price on Saturday breached the Rs 83 per litre-mark in Delhi for the first time in more than two years after a rally in international oil prices forced a 13th increase in rates in the last fortnight.
18. The Supreme Court (SC) has asked the States and Union Territories Governments to ensure that CCTV (closed-circuit television) cameras are installed in each and every Police Station.
19. The Minister of Science and Technology has virtually inaugurated the 2^nd TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) 2020 Conference in New Delhi.
20. Government assured farmers that procurement at minimum support price will continue and that mandis will be strengthened, said Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday after the meeting with farmers concluded.

(Collected from Mass Media)