1.President Droupadi Murmu Saturday gave her assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which was passed by Parliament earlier this week.

2.Screenwriter Paul Schrader, whose credits include Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, has been slapped with a lawsuit. He has been accused in a legal fi ling of sexually harassing his former assistant, and of backing out of an agreement to pay her a settlement.

3.Signalling an upswing in their strategic ties nearly four decades after the IPKF episode, India and Sri Lanka Saturday inked a defence pact to institutionalise military cooperation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting that security of both the nations is interlinked and dependent on each other.

4.India has emerged a "winner" in the recent US tariff hikes, as its exporters are better positioned to absorb the impact compared to competitor countries that are facing higher import duties in America, sources said Saturday.

5.The responsibility of protecting government land in villages along the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border lies with the Revenue department. The local intelligentsia and observers have raised serious concern questioning how Andhra is executing  projects, and with whose permission.

6.An FIR has been registered against BJP MLA Jayanarayan Mishra for allegedly abusing a police offi cer and threatening to set the police station on fire in Sambalpur.

7.Preparations have begun for the All-India Tiger Census 2026 in Similipal, the second largest biosphere reserve in Asia.

8.India has stepped up vigil to prevent the dumping of cheap Chinese imports in the country after the steep US tariff hike on the goods exported by the Communist country

9. India's $283-billion IT sector should brace for a rough year ahead as tariffs are likely to stoke infl ation in its key U.S. market and force clients to cut spending, analysts said.

10.The National Pension System (NPS) has emerged as a cornerstone of India's pension sector with an accumulated corpus of `14.4 lakh crore and 8.4 crore subscribers under NPS and the Atal Pension Yojana (APY), according to PFRDA chairman Deepak Mohanty.

11.One of the most pivotal weeks in years - even decades - for the global economy closed Friday to the sound of the Nasdaq crashing into a bear market as investors fear U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war will tip the world into recession.

12. A Russian attack killed at least 19 people including nine children in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih Friday, local offi cials said, but Russia’s Defence Ministry said it targeted a military gathering there.

13.Some 1,200 demonstrations are planned across the US Saturday in what organizers expect to be the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk since the administration launched its rapid-fi re effort to put a conservative stamp on government.

14.Authorities in Karachi have so far rounded up around 300 illegal Afghans to move them to a holding camp after it launched an operation to repatriate them to their country.

15.Justice Yashwant Varma, who was transferred from the Delhi High Court to the Allahabad High Court amid cash-at-home allegations, was administered the oath in a "clandestine".