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*Current Affairs : <ol> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">1.Indian journalists Anand RK and Suparna Sharma have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for their work highlighting digital surveillance and cyber fraud. The awards were announced Monday</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">2.The Union Cabinet Tuesday cleared a proposal to increase the strength of the Supreme Court from the present 34 judges to 38, including the Chief Justice of India (CJI). Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said .</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">3.Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has been appointed the Central observer for the election of the Leader of the Legislature Party in West Bengal, while Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has been named Central coobserver to assist in overseeing the proceedings.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">4.In a significant development for Odisha, a new railway division will be established at Rayagada under East Coast Railway, a move widely seen as strengthening the state’s rail infrastructure.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">5.Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo Tuesday asked all power distribution companies (DISCOMs) to ensure uninterrupted and quality power supply across the state during the summer season.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">6.State’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) will meet a BJD delegation May 11 to discuss alleged irregularities in the issuance of a second ballot paper to two BJP MLAs during voting for the Rajya Sabha elections March 16, an official said Tuesday.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">7.Jitu Munda, who grabbed national and global headlines after carrying his sister’s skeletal remains to a bank as proof of death to withdraw money left in her bank account and subsequently received lakhs of rupees as aid, was chased and attacked by his younger brother demanding his share from the donations.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">8.The Railway Board Tuesday called 34 years of operation of the world’s fi rst ladies special train service between Churchgate and Borivali in Mumbai a “key milestone in women-centric suburban travel”.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">9. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann Tuesday met President Droupadi Murmu and sought the termination of membership of six Rajya Sabha members from the state who defected to the BJP, saying their act was a “mockery” and “murder” of the Constitution.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">10.The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday approved three projects costing about Rs 23,437 crore of the Railway Ministry.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">11.Providing food baskets to 2.8 million people with tuberculosis in India could avert over 120,000 deaths yearly, according to a study.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">12.The swearing-in of the TVK cabinet is likely May 7. Vijay's remarks assume significance in the wake of TVK being 10 short of the simple majority to form government, as it has only 108 members in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">13.A BJP and a Trinamool Congress worker were killed in separate incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal Tuesday, police said.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">14.Sri Lanka’s anti-graft agency will question former president Mahinda Rajapaksa in a case involving the purchase of aircraft for the national carrier during his presidency, a court was told here Tuesday.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">15.Total automobile retail sales in India grew by 12.94 per cent with a record 26,11,317 units in April as compared to 23,12,221 units in the same month last year, making a bright start to the new fiscal, Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations said Tuesday.</span></p> </li> </ol>