1.IPO-bound travel tech platform OYO Saturday announced it has agreed to acquire iconic American budget hotel chain Motel 6 and Studio 6 brands from Blackstone Real Estate for USD 525 million in an all-cash transaction.

2.AAP leader Atishi took oath as Delhi’s third woman Chief Minister and became the youngest of all three to hold the top office in the national capital. The 43-year-old also became the 17th woman to hold the post of CM in independent India.

3.Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take charge as the chief of the Indian Air Force after incumbent Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari retires September 30. Singh is currently serving as the Vice Chief of the Air Staff.

4.New chief justices were appointed in seven high courts, including in Delhi, Saturday. Se parately, Justice M S Ramachandra Rao, who heads the Himachal Pradesh High Court, has been transferred as the chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court.

5.Veteran CPI(M) leader M M Lawrence, who was among the leaders involved in the attack on a police station at Edappally here during the Communist uprising in Kerala in 1950, died Saturday, party sources said.

6.The Health and Family Welfare department Saturday said no one was infected with Monkeypox (Mpox) in the state Odisha.

7.The state-owned Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) has been allegedly caught on the wrong foot due to mining on forest land without permission. As a result, OMC has to pay a fine of Rs 412 crore.

8.The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Saturday afternoon began the second round of technical survey of Srimandir Ratna Bhandar here, officials said.

9.Vigilance sleuths Saturday arrested NV Harihara Rao, a chief engineer at the Rural Works Circle of Balasore, for amassing disproportionate assets (DA) to the tune of 177 per cent of his known sources of income.

10.A 29-yearold woman’s dismembered body was found in a house in Malleswaram here, police sources said Saturday.

11.Bangladesh's interim government Saturday said it would export 3,000 tonnes of hilsa fish to India, coinciding with the upcoming Durga Puja, revising its earlier decision.

12.An investment of over `3 lakh crore is needed every year in the renewable energy sector to take India's installed green capacity to 440 gigawatt, Icra experts said.

13.An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas’ command centre in what used to be a school.

14.International Master Vantika Agrawal delivered the goods when it was badly needed, defeating Grandmaster Irina Krush to force a 2-2 draw against the United States.

15. Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo was elected president of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) after he beat his rival VK Dhall 36-21 in the polls held at the Constitution Club of India here Saturday.