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*Current Affairs : <ol> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">1.Chandranath Rath, a close aide and personal assistant of outgoing Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, was shot dead.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">2.The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal to amend the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971 to make any obstruction to the singing of the national song Vande Mataram a punishable offence.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">3.Jeetu Munda, who recently hit the headlines for carrying his sister's skeleton to a rural bank to prove her death and withdraw money, Wednesday underwent a purification ritual as per tribal tradition and offered a feast to the community.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">4.A writ petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) President C. Joseph Vijay in connection with alleged income tax irregularities linked to the 2015 Tamil film.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">5.The BJP-led NDA government in Assam is likely to be sworn in for a third consecutive term on May 12.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">6.Senior bureaucrat Saurabh Vijay was appointed Wednesday as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unique Identification Authority of India. Vijay, a 1998-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer,</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">7.India and Vietnam Wednesday elevated their relations to enhanced comprehensive strategic partnership and vowed to significantly expand economic and defence ties.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">8.India and the European Union have deepened their clean energy partnership with the launch of a third coordinated call for proposals on recycling electric vehicle (EV) batteries, under the India-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC).</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">9.The bench also said that its judgment, which allows the Chief Justice of India to be on the selection panel, was an arrangement made in the absence of a law.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">10.In addition to the 433 arrests made for direct involvement in cases of post-poll violence, the DGP said that 1,100 persons have so far been placed under preventive detention.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">11.The police have busted a sex racket in Odisha’s Angul town and detained the pimp.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">12.The Odisha  state will soon launch the “A Roof for All” initiative aimed at expanding urban housing access.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">13.The Indian Railways has rejected allegations surrounding the recent reorganisation of railway jurisdictions, stating that the restructuring linked to the creation of the Rayagada Division and the South Coast Railway zone is purely an operational and administrative exercise with no adverse impact Odisha .</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">14.The summer heat has intensified the drinking water woes in Bhubaneswar, with shrinking river water levels and falling groundwater reserves severely affecting supply across several parts of the city.</span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;">15.Three members of a family, including an elderly couple and their minor granddaughter, died after a major fire broke out early on Wednesday at Basant Villa apartments in Bhubaneswar’s Laxmisagar area. </span></p> </li> </ol>