1.Over 95 per cent of 5.36 lakh students have cleared the Odisha BSE Class X board examination.

2.The Election Commission (EC) Saturday ordered a “fresh” election in all the 285 polling stations of the Falta Assembly seat in West Bengal May 21 due to “subversion of democratic process”.

3.Come May 4, the high-stakes West Bengal Assembly elections will come to a close as the results in 293 of 294 constituencies .

4.CBI has arrested Kamlesh Parekh, a fugitive wanted in a 10-year-old Rs 2,672 crore bank fraud case, after his extradition from the UAE, officials said Saturday.

5.Beneficiaries left out of the fourth instalment of the Subhadra Yojana of Odisha  will receive financial assistance May 4, 2026.

6.Aman Kumar Sharma, 30, A judge has died by suicide at his home in South Delhi's Safdarjung area.

7.The Andaman and Nicobar administration on Saturday set a new Guinness World Record by unfurling the world's largest underwater national flag at Radhanagar beach,

8.Days after reconstituting the NITI Aayog, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday approved the appointment of Dr R Balasubramaniam and Dr Joram Aniya as full-time members of the think tank.

9.Four police personnel, including an inspector of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), were killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off while they were trying to neutralise it during a demining operation in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district Saturday, police said.

10.A university in Gujarat’s Vadodara has introduced ‘Modi Tattva’, a module on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘charismatic leadership’ and the history of the RSS into its Sociology syllabus to study their impact on society, an official said Saturday.

11.The Centre Saturday appointed academician Joram Aniya and scholar-author R Balasubramaniam as full-time members of the Niti Aayog, taking the total number of such members in the government think tank to seven, along with a vice-chairman.

12.The Punjab Police has booked Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak, who recently quit the AAP to join the BJP with six of his colleagues, sources said Saturday.

13.The latest hike in the price of 19-kg commercial LPG cylinders used by hotels and restaurants has dealt a "severe blow" to the hospitality industry already reeling under the impact of closures and job losses, and will aggravate the situation, industry associations said.

14. Low-cost US carrier Spirit Airlines said Saturday that all of its fl ights have been cancelled as it started an "orderly wind-down of operations," citing spiking fuel prices in recent weeks that left it no choice.

15.Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least seven people and wounded others Saturday as hostilities continued between Israel and Hezbollah despite a ceasefire.