1.The Supreme Court Tuesday observed that time has come for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) as it termed a plea seeking striking down of provisions of the Shariat law of 1937 for being discriminatory to Muslim women as a “very good case” which advisably only the legislature should look into.

2.The nationwide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign targeting eligible girls aged 14 is underway at designated government facilities, Minister of State for Health Prataprao Jadhav told the Rajya Sabha Tuesday .

3.Restaurants and hotels across India, including in Odisha, warned of disruptions and possible shutdowns Tuesday, as the West Asia conflict constricts supplies of cooking gas.

4.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday highlighted significant progress following the implementation of the new criminal laws, stating that Odisha’s conviction rate in cases where the accused were found guilty rose by 87.6 per cent by the end of 2025.

5.The Orissa High Court has stayed the state government’s notification banning the manufacture, sale, and preparation of tobacco, gutkha, pan masala, zarda, or any nicotine-containing food products.

6.According to the minister, drinking water has already been supplied to 68,47,752 families, covering about 77 per cent of households in the state as of March 5. Out of the total 44,531 villages in Odisha, drinking water projects have become functional in 11,777. “Our government has set a target to provide safe drinking water to every household by March 2027,” he said.

7.A female elephant that had been under treatment for critical injuries after consuming an explosive bait, died in a forest under the Kamakhyanagar West forest range in Dhenkanal district, officials said Tuesday.

8.A man and his sister-in-law were killed after being run over by a passenger train in a suspected suicide near Jaleswar railway station in Balasore district Monday evening, police said Tuesday.

9.Police in Subarnapur district have arrested nine persons and issued notices to 26 others for allegedly operating money mule accounts used in cyber fraud.

10.Members of the Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal Tuesday inspected the Kelo dam and Kalma barrage in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district as part of fi eld visits ahead of the fi nal decision in the long-running water-sharing dispute between Odisha and chhattisgarh.

11.The Gujarat government has imposed a 50 per cent cut on industrial uses of gas amid concerns over the West Asia conflict, a state minister said Tuesday, while assuring that domestic LPG distribution remains uninterrupted.

12.Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar Tuesday announced a flexible work time initiative for women state government employees working in the jurisdiction of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

13.West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday lifted her dharna against the “flawed SIR” on its fifth day, saying the protest was being suspended temporarily after the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of an appellate mechanism regarding the voter list revision.

14.Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister Biren Singh Engti died at a private hospital here Tuesday. He was 81.

15.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually flag off two Amrit Bharat trains, two express trains and one passenger train from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu along with another passenger train from Ernakulam in Kerala.

16.As many as 9,460 mobile phones were snatched in the national capital between January 1, 2024 and February 15 this year, Lok Sabha was informed Tuesday. Statistically, the data shows one snatching has been reported every two hours in 776 days.

17.Sri Lanka has increased retail fuel prices by over 8 per cent with effect from midnight Monday in a bid to curb hoarding and panic buying amid rising global crude oil prices, officials said Tuesday.

18.International aluminium prices have surged past 3,400 dollars per tonne amid fears of supply disruptions from the West Asia crisis.

19.Elbers resigns put in his papers Tuesday, three months after the country's largest airline faced massive operational disruptions.

20.Equity mutual funds attracted net infl ows of Rs 25,978 crore in February, marking an 8 per cent rise from the previous month, suggesting that investor participation remained resilient despite intermittent market volatility and global uncertainties.