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1.Over 95 per cent of 5.36 lakh students have cleared the Odisha BSE Class X board examination.
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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”.
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3.Come May 4, the high-stakes West Bengal Assembly elections will come to a close as the results in 293 of 294 constituencies .
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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.
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5.Beneficiaries left out of the fourth instalment of the Subhadra Yojana of Odisha will receive financial assistance May 4, 2026.
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6.Aman Kumar Sharma, 30, A judge has died by suicide at his home in South Delhi's Safdarjung area.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.