1.As the world marks Teachers’ Day (Sept 5), India observes it in honour of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan—philosopher, statesman, and the nation’s second President.

2.Giorgio Armani, the Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibilliondollar fashion empire, has died, his fashion house confi rmed Thursday. He was 91.

3.Taking a serious note of the devastating landslides and fl oods that have hit Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, the Supreme Court Thursday observed that ‘illegal felling of trees led to the disasters’.

4.Nearly 47 per cent of ministers in India have declared criminal cases against themselves, including serious charges such as murder, kidnapping, and crimes against women, according to an analysis of poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

5.A day after the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council approved an overhaul in the indirect tax regime, Opposition BJD Thursday demanded complete exemption of GST on kendu leaf and handloom products, and asked the Centre to compensate the estimated revenue loss of `1,000 crore per month on account of the change in the slabs.

6.Renowned Odia music director Abhijit Majumdar, 54, is critically ill and on ventilator support at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, hospital authorities said Thursday.

7.The state government Thursday said it will issue work orders for 50,000 Antyodaya houses September 17, to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 75th birthday.

8.The National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NIT Rourkela) has advanced to the 13th position in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025 Engineering category, up from 19th in 2024.

9.The Centre has notifi ed rules for regulating service matters relating to benefi ts under the Unifi ed Pension Scheme (UPS) in respect of its employees, as per offi cial statement.

10.Around 6,800 unauthorised structures, including farmhouses, schools and government buildings, have come up over 780 acres of deemed forest land in Faridabad in violation of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, the Supreme Court-mandated Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has told the apex court.

11. The Supreme Court Thursday directed registration of a suo motu public interest litigation over lack of functional CCTVs in police stations after taking cognisance of a media report. The apex court had in 2018 ordered installation of CCTV cameras in police stations to check human rights abuses.

12.The Trump administration took the fi ght over tariffs to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to rule quickly that the president has the power to impose sweeping import taxes under federal law.

13.More than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in the nearly two-year war in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said Thursday, as Hamas and Israel reiterated their incompatible demands for ending the fighting sparked by the militant group’s 2023 attack.

14.India's Yuki Bhambri progressed to his maiden Grand Slam semifi nal by advancing to the last four of the US Open men's doubles event with New Zealand partner Michael Venus.

15.Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) Thursday said that its monthly electricity traded volume grew 18.9 per cent to 11,803 million units (MU) in August on a year-onyear basis.