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*Current Affairs : <ol> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">1.Prime Minister Narendra Modi for completing 8,931 days in public office—first as Gujarat chief minister and now as PM—calling it a testament to his unwavering commitment to nation-first governance and elevating India’s global stature.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">2.More than half of the countries have banned phones in schools amid mounting concerns about declining attention in classrooms and cyberbullying, according to the UNSECO’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) team.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">3.India's water governance reforms, particularly in Maharashtra, could play a pivotal role in shaping how the world feeds 10 billion people sustainably, the World Bank said recently, highlighting the state's regulatory model as a global example..</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">4.As many as 15 deer were killed after a pack of stray dogs attacked them inside an enclosure at an animal rescue centre in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">5.Former JD(U) leader KC Tyagi Sunday joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), saying there is no difference between the two parties as both follow the ideals of former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh and socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">6.The Supreme Court has directed all the states and Union territories to furnish updated details relating to jails, including the sanctioned capacity of each prison and steps taken to check overcrowding, by May 18.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">7.The notices moved by the Opposition MPs in Parliament seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar have accused him of “acting under the thumb of the executive”, besides blaming him for “mass disenfranchisement” through the SIR exercise, and raising questions on his appointment.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">8.The state government Sunday effected a major reshuffle by appointing Prativa Panda as the Dean and Principal of the SCB medical college and Jyotish Chandra Choudhury as the Superintendent of the premier healthcare facility.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">9.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for multiple water resource projects worth around Rs 2,612 crore, marking the World Water Day Sunday.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">10.The Chandrasekharpur police Sunday arrested two youths who allegedly stole cars from owners by taking them for test drives under the pretext of purchasing them.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">11.Foreign investors have withdrawn Rs 88,180 crore (about USD 9.6 billion) from Indian equities so far this month.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">12.The government has stepped up efforts to streamline gas distribution and ease supply pressures, directing faster processing of city gas projects while increasing allocations of commercial LPG to key sectors amid a challenging geopolitical environment.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">13.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Sunday urged allies to keep up sanctions pressure on Russia ahead of a second day of talks between Ukrainian and US delegations on ways to end the four-year-old war, triggered by Russia's full-scale invasion, opens new tab of Ukraine.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">14.Cuba began restoring its energy system Sunday, a day after a nationwide collapse of the entire grid left millions of people in the dark for the third time this month.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">15. India's urea plants are running at half capacity after force majeure declarations disrupted LNG flows through the Strait of Hormuz amid escalating West Asia tensions, industry sources said Sunday.</span></p> </li> </ol>