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1.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday approved the regularisation of Schematic Junior Teachers appointed during the 2023–24 period. With this move, more than 13,000 contractual teachers will benefit.
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2.The Supreme Court Friday said a husband has to equally participate in household chores like cooking, cleaning and washing as he is not marrying a maid but a life partner.
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3.Sri Lanka (SL) refused permission for the US to land two of its warplanes in the island’s southeast Mattala International Airport in early March, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament here Friday.
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4.India's state-run Hindustan Petroleum has bought 2 million barrels of Angolan oil via a tender, three trade sources said, as reduced availability of costly Middle Eastern oil leads Indian refiners to shift to West African and Asia-Pacific grades.
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5.The rupee crashed 64 paise to settle at an all-time low of 93.53 against the US dollar Friday.
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6.The price of premium or higher-grade petrol Friday was increased by Rs 2 per litre while the rate of bulk diesel sold to industrial users was hiked by about Rs22 a litre.
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7.Chuck Norris, the former martial arts champion and 1980s action-film hero died at the age of 86.
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8.Nearly three weeks into US-Israeli strikes that have killed a slew of Iran’s top leaders and hammered its weapons and energy industries, a defiant Tehran Friday threatened to target recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisted it is still building missiles.
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9.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday said the state Tourism department has set a Guinness World Record for the largest serving of ‘pakhala’ (fermented rice) of 1,174 kg prepared and presented in a single vessel.
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10.Patna University’s historic Wheeler Senate House, the traditional venue of PU’s convocation ceremonies, which also played host to Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore in March 1936, turned 100 Friday.
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11.The Central Board of Direct Taxes Friday notifi ed the rules for Income-tax Act, 2025 which provided enhanced tax benefi t for HRA to salary earner but makes disclosure of landlord-tenant relationship mandatory.
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12.Amid the escalating West Asia confl ict, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Friday said six Indian nationals have lost their lives while one remains missing in "various incidents".
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13.We will convert the entire DTC fleet into electric vehicles (EV) buses. The Delhi government is working towards last-mile connectivity said Rekha Gupta , Delhi Chief Minister.
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14.In a massive crackdown against illegal gambling and betting websites, the government has blocked 300 such websites and applications, sources said Friday.
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15.The Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea seeking removal of a remark against its verdicts from NCERT's old Class VIII Social Science textbook, saying that people have a right to criticise them.