- 1.Senior Odisha cadre IAS offi cer Sujata R Karthikeyan, wife of BJD president Naveen Patnaik's former close aide VK Pandian, has been granted permission to take voluntary retirement from government service, offi cial sources said Saturday.
- 2.Myanmar's ruling military said Saturday on state television that the confirmed death toll from a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake rose to 1,644, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings.
- 3.Amid a walkout by the opposition BJD and in the absence of suspended Congress MLAs, the Assembly Saturday passed the Appropriation Bill, 2025, allowing the state government to spend `2.90 lakh crore from its consolidated fund during the fi nancial year 2025-26.
- 4.The Vigilance department Friday arrested fi ve government offi cials, including four former Primary Agriculture Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS) secretaries and a Large-sized Adivasi Multipurpose Cooperative Society (LAMPCS) offi cial, for allegedly embezzling over `1 crore through fraudulent means.
- 5.The Centre has strongly objected to social media platform X's characterisation of the 'Sahyog' portal as a “censorship” tool, calling the claim both “unfortunate” and “condemnable.”
- 6.A Delhi court Saturday dismissed a plea filed by a BJP leader seeking prosecution of AAP’s Saurabh Bharadwaj for allegedly making defamatory remarks against him in September 2018.
- 7.Seventeen years after the case of cash at-judge's door rocked judiciary, a special CBI court here Saturday acquitted former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Justice (Retd) Nirmal Yadav and four others in the matter.
- 8.Members of Vishva Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal along with locals Saturday held a massive protest over vandalism at Tejaji temple on Tonk road here, police said.
- 9.Lawyers of the Allahabad High Court, agitating since Tuesday against the transfer of Delhi High Court judge Yashwant Varma to the Allahabad High Court, suspended their strike Saturday till the report of an investigation against the judge come.
- 10.There has been an unprecedented increase in solar power capacity in the country -- from 2.82 GW in 2014 to 104 GW today -- showing a significant increase of 3,580 per cent in the last 10 years, Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi, said .
- 11.The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) recently issued new guidelines on numeric UPI ID solution with the aim of enhancing customer experience for UPI number-based payments. These new guidelines will be effective from April 1.
- 12.Billionaire Elon Musk has announced his artificial intelligence company, xAI, has acquired social media platform X for an all-stock transaction of $33 billion.
- 13.Fifty-year-old Anuj Kannaujia, a sharpshooter of the Mukhtar Ansari gang, was killed in a police encounter during a joint operation by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force and the Jharkhand Police in Jamshedpur.
- 14.India and the US have decided to hold sector-specific talks in the coming weeks to finalise the structure of the proposed bilateral trade agreement (BTA), the government said on Saturday.
- 15.The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has banned the sale of meat within 500 metres of religious places in the state for the nine-day Chaitra Navratri festival, which begins on Sunday
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