1.Odisha recorded 70.23 per cent voter turnout till midnight (00.15 am) in the six Lok Sabha and 42 Assembly segments, the elections for which were held Saturday, officials said.

2. An approximate voter turnout of 61.46 per cent was recorded in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections Saturday in 58 constituencies across six states and two Union Territories .

3.BJP’s Khurda Assembly nominee Prasant Jagdev allegedly entered a polling booth and attacked the polling and presiding officers at booth no-114 at Kaunripatna near Rajsunakhala under Begunia Assembly constituency.

4.The Election Commission Saturday came out with Lok Sabha constituency-wise data on the number of votes cast in the first five phases of the elections and asserted that there is a pattern in creating false narratives and mischievous design to vitiate the electoral process.

5.At least 27 persons, including four children under the age of 12, were killed in a massive fire that swept through a game zone teeming with people enjoying a summer vacation outing in this city of Gujarat Saturday evening, officials said.

6.Using Google Maps to navigate resulted in a tourist group from Hyderabad driving into a stream swollen with water near Kuruppanthara in this south Kerala district, police said Saturday.

7.Temperatures soared to a searing 50 degrees Celsius in Rajasthan’s Phalodi Sunday, as a brutal heatwave swept through large parts of India, testing the endurance of millions, including those who stepped out to vote in the sixth phase of the ongoing general elections.

8. The Delhi High Court has sought the stand of the National Testing Agency (NTA) on a petition by a 19-yearold NEET candidate seeking grace marks after she received a torn optical mark recognition (OMR) sheet.

9.“As the reality of defeat dawns on the outgoing Prime Minister, he has become increasingly delusional. He has now proclaimed that his birth was not biological, and that he has been sent by the Creator himself. Perhaps he fancies himself as a godman in his next career,” Jairam Ramesh said as the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls concluded Saturday.

10. A total of 1,430 Myanmarese nationals took shelter in the northeastern state of Mizoram in the last 10 days amid fresh clashes in the neighbouring country between the army and ‘pro-democratic forces’, an official said Saturday.

11.A NonResident Indian (NRI) travelled thousands of miles from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to cast his vote in the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state, Saturday.

12.The Chinese military has ended its two-day joint drills surrounding Taiwan, stated to be the biggest and closest exercises held around the prosperous self-ruled island that China claims to be part of its mainland.

13.Six countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will set up a “drone wall” to protect their borders, the Ukrainian news outlet European Pravda reported Saturday.

 14.More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported Saturday.

15.India achieved a milestone by adding over 10 GW of solar capacity in the first quarter (Q1) of 2024, marking the highest quarterly installation to date

16.Wheat procurement for the 2024-25 marketing year has surpassed last year’s total of 262.02 lakh tonne, boosted by strong contributions from the northern states of Punjab and Haryana, the government said Friday.

17.Yecheon (South Korea), May 25: The Indian women’s compound team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Parneet Kaur and Aditi Swami grabbed its third successive Archery World Cup gold medal, while the mixed team added a silver at the stage two event here Saturday.

18.Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu Saturday earned a shot at the $420,000 Malaysia Masters crown after entering the women’s singles final with a come-from-behind win over Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrungphan her.

19.Tactician par excellence Gautam Gambhir couldn’t have envisaged a battle of brains with a more different kind of adversary than the smiling yet ruthless Pat Cummins as Kolkata Knight Riders face a spirited Sunrisers Hyderabad in a mega IPL final here Sunday.

20.India ended their World Para Athletics Championships campaign with unprecedented success, scooping 17 medals, including six gold, to take the sixth spot in the standings with Delhi sprinter Simran Sharma winning the country’s sixth yellow metal here Saturday.