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1.A blaze triggered by a suspected short circuit in a building near the iconic Charminar here Sunday left 17 people dead, with a majority of them being children.
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2.The Odisha Police have started an investigation into the alleged links between Puri-based YouTuber Priyanka Senapati and Jyoti Malhotra, who was arrested on the charge of passing on sensitive information to Pakistani intelligence operatives, an officer said Sunday.
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3.The state government has officially designated the National Investigation Agency (NIA) office in Bhubaneswar as a police station with jurisdiction across the entire state. The newly recognised police station will be located at the office of Superintendent of Police, In-charge of NIA police station, at VSS Nagar here.
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4.The three pillars of democracy -- the judiciary, the legislature, and the executive -- are equal, and every organ of the Constitution must reciprocate and show respect to the other, The BR Gavai CJI said.
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5.ISRO Sunday failed to put its earth observation satellite in orbit after its trusted PSLV rocket developed a fault minutes after launch from the spaceport Sriharikota.
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6.Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Razaullah Nizamani alias Abu Saiullah, who was the brain behind the 2006 attack on the RSS headquarters, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Sindh province of Pakistan Sunday, officials here said.
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7.Cyber Police Sunday arrested three miscreants for allegedly duping a city resident of Rs10 lakh by luring him with high returns on his investments.
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8.Ashoka University's head of political science department, Ali Khan Mahmudabad, was arrested Sunday after two FIRs were lodged on stringent charges, including endangering sovereignty and integrity, for his social media posts related to Operation Sindoor, police and his lawyer said at Sonipat (Haryana).
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9.India continues to be the world's largest market for electric three-wheelers for a second year in a row as sales rose nearly 20 per cent to reach about 7 lakh vehicles in 2024, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report.
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10.Police have recovered four live bombs and sharp weapons that were lying on the Lanjipalli-Kamapalli road Berhampur.
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11.One of South Asia's oldest medical institutions, Grant Government Medical College (GMC) aka Sir JJ Hospital (Mumbai), turned 180 May 15, marking nearly two centuries of pioneering contributions to medical education and research in India.
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12.In a pioneering initiative, Kerala has emerged as the first state in the country to make robotics education mandatory for all 4.3 lakh students of class 10, starting from the upcoming academic year June 2.
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13.The Sikkim government has accelerated infrastructure development for the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra through Nathu La, a mountain pass in the Himalayas that connects the state with China's Tibet Autonomous Region
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14. A large number of fake marksheets and degrees were recovered from a private university in Hapur district in Uttar Pradesh during a raid by a team of the UP Special Task Force.
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15.Security forces Sunday destroyed 42 unexploded shells in different forward villages near the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir .
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16.Israel launched “extensive” new ground operations in the Gaza Strip while airstrikes in a new offensive killed at least 103 people, including dozens of children, overnight and into Sunday, hospitals and medics said, and forced northern Gaza's main hospital to close.
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17.Russia launched Sunday its largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war, destroying homes and killing at least one woman a day before US President Donald Trump is due to discuss a proposed ceasefi re with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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18.Four levies soldiers were killed when militants attacked their check post in the restive Balochistan province's Khuzdar district along the strategic ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route, police said.
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19.India and the European Union (EU) chief negotiators have concluded another round of talks on the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) here and agreed to reach a deal in two phases. The 11th round of talks concluded on May 16.
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20.Markets regulator Security Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has made the electronic book mechanism mandatory for all private placement debt issues of Rs20 crore or above and expanded the platform's scope to include Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs).