1. The Supreme Court Thursday held that the agency cannot arrest anyone under Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) without specific instruction of the special court holding trial.

2.Nearly one-third of 926 individuals, who received Bharat Biotech’s anti-Covid vaccine Covaxin, reported ‘Adverse Events of Special Interest’ (AESI), according to a oneyear follow up study conducted by a team of researchers at Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

3.Construction work for the sibling deities’ chariots in progress ahead of the Rath Yatra in Puri.

 4.As many as 28 of the 64 candidates in fray for six Lok Sabha (LS) constituencies-Sambalpur, Puri, Bhubaneswar, Cutttack, Keonjhar and Dhenkanal- in the state going to polls in the third phase (sixth nationally) May 25 are crorepatis, according to a report by poll watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), and Odisha Election Watch (OEW)

5.Odisha Police Thursday issued a warning to mobile users, urging caution against answering calls originating from Pakistani numbers starting with +92 on WhatsApp.

6.Stayed criminal proceedings before a trial court in Uttar Pradesh (UP) over five FIRs lodged against the vice-chancellor of the Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS) and others for alleged illegal conversion of Hindus to Christianity.

7.India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Bhubaneswar Thursday issued yellow alerts for rain and thundershowers in many districts during the next three days. Heatwave conditions are likely to return to the state this week The day temperature (maximum temperature) is gradually increasing by two to three degrees Celsius across the state.

8.In a significant boost to farm exports from Odisha, Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) in the state have marked their foray into the global markets with the first commercial shipment of fresh mangoes and vegetables.

9.About 50 per cent of people with high blood pressure (BP) or hypertension are likely to experience kidney damage in the long term and may require dialysis or transplantation, said experts on Thursday ahead of World Hypertension Day.

10.The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has successfully coordinated the medical evacuation of a critically ill crewman of British nationality from a foreign vessel off the Kochi coast Thursday, a Defence release said her.

11.A doctor has been suspended after a wrong surgery was performed on a four-year-old girl at the Government Medical College Hospital Kozhikode. The child had been scheduled for surgery to remove a sixth finger on her hand at the Maternal and Child Care Centre of the Medical College Hospital, instead of which an operation was performed on her tongue mistakenly.

12.The cumulative turnout in the first four phases of Lok Sabha elections has been recorded at 66.95 per cent, the Election Commission (EC) said Thursday, adding 45.10 crore of the nearly 97 crore electors have voted so far in the ongoing electoral exercise.

 13.A court here Thursday granted interim bail to JD(S) MLA and former Karnataka Minister HD Revanna in a sexual harassment case.

14.Air India Limited (AIL) ceased to be State or its instrumentality under Article 12 of the Constitution after its disinvestment and take over by the Tata Group in January 2022, and no case of alleged violation of fundamental right would lie against it, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

15.The Union government has reduced the prices of 41 commonly used medicines and six formulations used to treat diseases such as diabetes, heart and liver ailments.