1.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday announced plans to set up a mega cement factory in this district that would provide employment to 2,000 people.

2.South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Saturday to fight for his political future after he was impeached in a second vote by the opposition-led parliament over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, a move that had shocked the nation.

3. Georgian lawmakers elected Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, as president Saturday.

4.The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has achieved 15,547 crore transactions worth Rs223 lakh crore from January to November this year.

5.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday proposed 11 resolutions which include upholding existing reservations for marginalised sections but strongly opposing any religion-based quota.

6.The government has listed two bills related to ‘one nation, one election’ for introduction in the Lok Sabha Monday.

7.A 26-year-old Indian-origin former employee of the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has died by suicide in San Francisco, authorities said.

8.BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani has been admitted in the ICU of Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals here.

9.The National Green Tribunal has allowed time for the Uttar Pradesh government to place on record a comprehensive sewage management system plan for the upcoming Mahakumbh mela.

10.A day after two key suspects in the rape-murder of a doctor at RG Kar hospital were granted bail, the Left parties and Congress organised protest rallies across Kolkata Saturday, accusing the CBI of “failing” to deliver justice.

11.The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries in the South-East Asia region to strengthen measures to prevent drowning, which it says disproportionately affects children and vulnerable populations.

12.The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar Saturday found itself under pressure, from adversaries and allies alike, to order a probe into allegations of question paper leak in an examination conducted by the state public service commission.

13.The prestigious New Delhi Assembly seat is likely to witness a fi erce electoral contest with sitting MLA and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal pitted against the sons of former Delhi chief ministers as the BJP and Congress candidates.

14.Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde Saturday invoked in the Lok Sabha a letter written by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi praising V D Savarkar, triggering heated exchanges between the treasury benches and Congress members.

15.Paracetamol, a common over-the counter medication, may increase the risk of gastrointestinal, heart- and kidney-related complications among adults aged 65 and above, a new study has found.