1.Opposition BJD Rajya Sabha MP Sulata Deo faced backlash Saturday after making contentious remarks about the Pahalgam attack that claimed 26 lives, including a tourist from Odisha.

2.After a gap of nearly five years, India and China will resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra from June -- a move being seen as an attempt to normalise their relationship that was severely hit by the eastern Ladakh border standoff.

3.Union Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh will Monday inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for key projects for six coastal states, including Odisha, and a Union territory with an outlay of Rs255.30 crore under Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY).

4.The state continued to reel under extreme hot and humid conditions as 14 places recorded temperatures at or above 40 degree Celsius even as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) warned of thundershowers in several districts Sunday.

5.Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs, Road Transport and Highways Harsh Malhotra distributed appointment letters to 258 candidates during a Rozgar Mela held at the Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT) here Saturday.

6.Following the recent terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Pahalgam area in which 26 people were brutally killed and scores were injured, Rajasthan authorities have initiated the process of identifying and sending back Pakistani citizens currently residing in the state.

7.The Allahabad High Court has admitted a petition against Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya that alleged that he furnished a ‘fake’ degree while getting a licence for a petrol pump and contesting the election.

8.After a gap of nearly five years, India and China will resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra from June -- a move being seen as an attempt to normalise their relationship that was severely hit by the eastern Ladakh border standoff.

9.India has lifted 171 million people from extreme poverty in the decade between 2011-12 and 2022-23, the World Bank said.

10.The threestriped roofed turtle, once found in numbers in the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers, has now largely disappeared with a government-funded study detecting an over 80 per cent drop in its population in half a century, largely due to habitat loss, illegal trade and pollution.

11.The UNSC has “condemned in the strongest terms” the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, stressing that those responsible should be held accountable and the organisers and sponsors of this “reprehensible act of terrorism” should be brought to justice.

12.Russia Saturday declared full liberation of western Kursk region and lauded the role of North Korean troops in purging the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

13.Edible oil industry body SEA has demanded that the government should raise import duty on refi ned palm oil to 40 per cent from the current 32.5 per cent to protect the domestic processing industries.

14.Apple aims to make most of its iPhones sold in the United States at factories in India by the end of 2026, and is speeding up those plans to navigate potentially higher tariffs in China, its main manufacturing base, a source told Reuters.

15.The Indian women’s hockey team fought valiantly before losing 3-5 to a clinical Australia 'A' in its opening match of tour Down Under here Saturday.