1.ED freezes Rs82 lakh deposits and shares of ‘Biswa’ in Odisha as part of a bank fraud-linked money laundering probe.

2.Indian National Lok Dal president and fi ve-time Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala died here Friday at the age of 89.

3.More than 40 million people struggle to feed themselves across West and Central Africa.

4.The Mazagon Docks Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) created history by delivering two indigenously built, modern Capital Warships 'Nilgiri' and 'Surat' to the Indian Navy, officials said in Mumbai on Friday.

5.Equity investors become poorer by Rs 18.43L crore in five days of market crash as Sensex tanks 4,091 points.

6.An LPG tanker collided with a truck Friday, in the Jaipur-Ajmer highway into an inferno in which 11 people were killed and 37 vehicles engulfed in flames.

7.An elephant care centre will soon come up in the Chandragiri reserve forest area in Ganjam district, local MLA Pradyumna Nayak said Friday.

8.Decks were cleared for setting up a mega 39-member parliamentary panel to examine the two Bills proposing simultaneous elections with the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha adopting resolutions in this regard.

9.The Competition Commission of India (CCI) Friday cleared over Rs 7,000-crore deal, wherein billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla-promoted UltraTech Cement will acquire a majority stake in India Cements Ltd.

10.India’s finished steel imports from China reached an all-time high during the first eight months of the fiscal year to March 2025, provisional government data showed, adding to concerns among domestic mills about cheap shipments from China.

11.Odisha’s talented teenager Jyoshna Sabar created a new youth Asian record for total lift on her way to winning the gold medal in the 40 kg weight category at Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships for boys and girls here Friday.

12.The Maharashtra legislative assembly here on Friday passed a bill seeking to reform the prison system in the state.

13.The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police will investigate the FIR against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who has been accused of injuring two BJP MPs at the Parliament complex, an officer said on Friday.

14.The Allahabad High Court on Friday stayed the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in relation to an FIR accusing him of promoting enmity among religious groups following complaint by an associate of controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand.

15.An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 struck Nepal in the early hours of Saturday, the National Centre of Seismology (NCS) reported.