1. Bengaluru Senior JD(S) leader and party MLA HD Revanna was remanded to police custody till May 8 by a city court.

2.  Severe heatwave conditions scorched Odisha Sunday with the mercury shooting to 45 degrees Celsius in Titilagarh.

3. Ravindra Jadeja’s all-round effort helps CSK keep the playoff hopes alive with an easy win over Punjab Kings.

4. Israeli government moves to shut down the operations of the Al Jazeera television network in the country, branding it a mouthpiece for Hamas.

5. Accusing Chhattisgarh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan of violating the model code of conduct (MCC), the BJD Sunday urged the Election Commission to restrict his visit to Odisha till the completion of the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the state.

6. Courts have to take a participatory role in a trial and not act as “mere tape recorders”, the Supreme Court said here and lamented that there is “practically no effective and meaningful cross-examination” by public prosecutors of any hostile witness during hearings of criminal appeals.

7. Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh Saturday said that 877 square km of forest cover in the northeastern state were destroyed in 34 years (1987-2021), primarily for the illegal cultivation of poppy, which has been used to manufacture various drugs.

8. Reservations for Scheduled Casts (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) would not end as long as there is even one BJP MP in the Parliament, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said Sunday.

9. Senior JD(S) leader and party MLA H D Revanna was remanded to police custody till May 8 by a city court Sunday in connection with a case of alleged kidnapping and illegal confining of a woman.

10.The Election Commission Sunday ordered the transfer of Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police KV Rajendranath Reddy with immediate effect, sources said.

11. West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose Sunday directed all staffers of Raj Bhavan to ignore any communication from the Kolkata Police in connection with a woman employee’s complaint of molestation against him.

12. A total of 35 Naxalites, three of them carrying a cumulative reward of `3 lakh, surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district Sunday, a senior police official said. A 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old boy are among those who turned themselves in before the police, he said.

13. Indians are one of the largest leaders of innovation in Silicon Valley and America’s tech industry cannot survive without them, the CEO of the Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce has said.

14. Massive floods in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state killed at least 60 people and another 101 were reported missing, according to Sunday’s toll from local authorities. At least 155 people were injured, while damage from the rains forced more than 80,000 people from their homes.

15. As Ukraine marked its third Easter at war, Russia launched a barrage of drones concentrated in Ukraine’s east where the situation on the front line is worsening.

16. More than 1.85 lakh companies were registered in the country last fiscal, higher than the count recorded in the year-ago period, and nearly 16,600 companies were set up in March this year, according to official data.

17. Foreign investors have adopted a “wait and watch” stance amidst the ongoing general elections and have infused just `1,156 crore in the first two trading sessions of this month.

18.Credit outstanding to the housing sector rose by nearly `10 lakh crore in the last two fiscals to reach a record `27.23 lakh crore in March this year, according to RBI’s data on ‘Sectoral Deployment of Bank Credit’

19.Ravindra Jadeja (43 and three wickets) orchestrated a master-class allround show as Chennai Super Kings (CSK) regained their winning touch with a comprehensive 28-run win over Punjab Kings (PBKS) in a low-scoring IPL fixture here Sunday.

20.Second leg runner Rajesh Ramesh pulled out due to cramps as the Indian men’s 4x400m team failed to finish Sunday their heats at the World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, during round one of Paris Olympics qualification.