1. The Union Cabinet Saturday approved an assured 50 per cent of salary as pension for 23 lakh government employees who joined service under the National Pension System (NPS).

2. The Congress Saturday said “repeated targeting” of minorities in BJP-ruled states is deeply troubling and asserted that ‘bulldozer justice’ is completely unacceptable and must stop

3.The Election Commission (EC) has set up 24 special polling stations in Jammu, Udhampur and New Delhi to facilitate voting by Kashmiri migrants in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, a senior official said

4.A court in Balasore district Saturday sentenced a man to 10-year of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) and imposed a fine of `5,000 for raping a girl six years ago.

5.Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi Saturday reiterated the demand for a caste census, claiming that 90 per cent of India’s population is not a part of the system.

6.The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) Saturday wrote a letter to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to start the inspection work of the Ratna Bhandar of the 12th-century shrine in Puri before undertaking repair and renovation of the temple vault

7.A special court here Saturday ordered the confiscation of assets worth `5.86 crore belonging to Subash Chandra Mishra, a former engineer with the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).

8.A day after Excise Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan announced there are plans in place to close all dance bars in the state, the Commissionerate Police Saturday moved in with bulldozers and demolished three illicit liquor manufacturing units at Salia Sahi, here.

9.African cheetahs brought to India as part of the world’s first intercontinental translocation of big cats will soon be released into the wild, nearly a year after they were returned to enclosures in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park for health check-ups and monitoring, according to officials, Saturday.

10.FMCG distributors have raised concerns over the ‘rapid and unregulated growth’ of quick commerce platforms, saying it needs immediate scrutiny.

11.Indian telecom players are targeting a share of 10 per cent of all 6G patents and one-sixth contributions to global standards in the next three years, an official statement said Saturday.

12.Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah and Israel both announced large-scale military operations against each other today. According to a statement from Hezbollah, an Iran-backed group, "more than 320" Katyusha rocketswere launched.

13.Amid the crisis in Bangladesh, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday claimed that Hindus are not attempting to enter India from Bangladesh and they are fighting there.

14.Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Saturday said the unprecedented floods in the state have caused an estimated loss of ₹ 15,000 crore, affecting infrastructure, agriculture, and other property.

15.Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday asserted that Article 370 of the Constitution, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, will never be restored.