1.President Droupadi Murmu visited the Sripuram Golden Temple here Wednesday and offered prayers during her brief visit to Tamil Nadu.

2.Out of 10.13 lakh government schools across India, 5,149 have no students at all. And more than 70 per cent of these schools reporting zero enrolment in the 2024-25 academic year are in Telangana and West Bengal, according to government data.

3.India and Oman will sign a free trade agreement Thursday in Muscat, opening greater opportunities for sectors such as textiles, food processing, automobiles, auto components, and gems and jewellery.

4.Electronic cigarettes remain completely banned under Indian law, the government Wednesday informed Parliament that no case related to the seizure of e-cigarettes and vape devices with narcotic substances has been investigated by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).

5.The protesters, marching under the banner of July Oikya (July Unity), were chanting anti-India slogans and raising several demands, including the extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and others who fled the country during and after the July uprising last year in Dhaka.

6.Vehicles that do not have BS-VI engines will not be allowed to enter the national capital from today as part of rigorous anti-pollution measures adopted by the Delhi government.

7.Parliament on Wednesday passed the 'Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025', with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman assuring that opening up sector will attract new insurers, intermediaries and allied service providers.

8.The Delhi High Court on Wednesday clarified that couples seeking divorce by mutual consent are not necessarily required to live separately for at least one year, as prescribed under the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA), 1955.

9.US President Donald Trump ordered Tuesday a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, in Washington’s latest move to increase pressure on Nicolas Maduro’s government, targeting its main source of income.

10.Silver prices breach the record `2 lakh-per-kilogram mark in the national capital for the fi rst time.

11.Meher Castelino, the first Miss India and a celebrated fashion journalist, passed away at the age of 81 .

12.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday announced that Berhampur city will be expanded and developed as Greater Berhampur City. The road connecting Berhampur and Jeypore will be upgraded to a six-lane highway at a cost of Rs6,000 crore

13.The Odisha government will set up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Semiconductor Materials and Devices at IIIT-Bhubaneswar at a cost of Rs 400 crore.

14.The growing use of platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity has made India the world's largest market for large language model (LLM) adoption, a foreign brokerage said Wednesday.

15.Prize money for next year's World Cup will be 50% higher than the previous edition with world governing body FIFA agreeing a record $727 million fi nancial contribution to the tournament Wednesday.