1.Ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday filed his nomination papers for the Odisha Assembly elections from Hinjili seat in Ganjam district

2.Ten Naxalites including three women were killed in an encounter with security forces on the border of Narayanpur and Kanker districts of Chhattisgarh Tuesday morning, police said.

3.Severe heatwave conditions sizzled Odisha Tuesday with the mercury rising to 45.4 degrees Celsius in the capital Bhubaneswar, Baripada town in Mayurbhanj district was the hottest temperature of 46.4 degrees Celsius.

 4.Terming life and liberty as ‘exceedingly important’, the Supreme Court Tuesday questioned the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the timing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest ahead of the general elections in the excise policy-linked money laundering case.

5.Indian Railways will procure three wheels, one each from the three chariots that represent the famous Rath Yatra, to place them at the centre of the concourse of Puri railway station that is being redeveloped under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme.

6.Security personnel at Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here seized `75 lakh cash from two persons during scanning of luggage bags here, official sources said Tuesday.

7.The Supreme Court Tuesday appreciated the ‘marked improvement’ in the unconditional public apology published in newspapers by yoga guru Ramdev, his aide Balkrishna and Patanjali Ayurved Limited (PAL) in the misleading advertisements case.

8.As many as 7,000 artisans have been rendered jobless following the closure of 70 per cent of the handloom units in Kendrapara district during the last three decades.

9.A nineyear-old tiger that had killed six persons in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra in the last two months has been caged, marking the successful culmination of a two-month-long operation to capture the elusive big cat on the prowl which had struck terror in villages.

10.A voter turnout of 81.16 per cent was recorded at six polling stations in Outer Manipur Lok Sabha seat, where repolling was held Tuesday, election officials said.

11.Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said Tuesday that the influx of illegal immigrants from Myanmar led to the emergence of 996 new villages in the state in the past 18 years.

12.The Manipur government is likely to take up with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) the issue of the popular Manipuri game of ‘Mukna-Kangjei’ being identified as that of Mizoram in one of its textbooks, officials said Monday.

13.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday tore into the Congress saying as long as he is alive he won’t allow reservation for Muslims, on the basis of religion, at the cost of SC, ST and OBCs.

14.The Congress Tuesday appointed former MLA Devender Yadav as interim president of its Delhi unit, two days after Arvinder Singh Lovely resigned from the post while criticising the alliance with AAP and statements of the party’s candidates in the national capital.

15.India’s net oil import bill could widen to $101-104 billion in current fiscal from $96.1 billion in 2023-24 and any escalation in the IranIsrael conflict could impart an upward pressure on the value of imports, ICRA said Tuesday.