1.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday said a mega steel plant with an investment of around Rs 40,000 crore will be jointly set up by JSW and POSCO in Keonjhar district’s Patana area.

2. A special court has directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to register an FIR against former Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri in connection with alleged stock market fraud and regulatory violations.

3.The Odisha state government will provide preparatory pilot training to 50 tribal students, mostly women, to make them ready for the professional course.

4.Six persons were killed while another suffered serious injuries in two separate road accidents that occurred in Sundargarh and Mayurbhanj districts in a span of 24 hours.

5.In the hills of Ratnagiri in Odisha, 15 archaeologists have been working over the last three months to uncover ancient Kalinga's Buddhist legacy and ties with Southeast Asia.

6.Forty-six per cent of the more than 51 lakh eligible voters for civic body polls in Haryana exercised their franchise Sunday, officials said.

7.Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Sunday scoffed at speculations of a “cold war” between him and his deputy Eknath Shinde.

8.Forty per cent of the global population does not have access to education in a language they speak or understand, according to UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring (GEM) team.

9.President Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States.

10 Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza Sunday as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated, with Hamas calling on Egyptian and Qatari mediators to intervene.

11. Foreign investors have pulled out Rs34,574 crore from the Indian equity markets in February pushing total outflows to Rs1.12 lakh crore in the first two months of 2025 amid rising global trade tensions and concerns over corporate earnings growth.

12.Cumulative coal production reached 928.95 million tonne (MT) in the April-February period this fi scal (FY25), reflecting a 5.73 per cent increase compared to 878.55 MT in the same period last year, the government said Saturday.

13.India’s import duties are in compliance with the global trade rules and the government should convey this to the US administration, economic think tank GTRI said Sunday.

14.Pope Francis was in stable condition and resting on Sunday as he continued his recovery from double pneumonia, but again skipped his weekly noon blessing to avoid even a brief public appearance.

15.Shreyas Iyer's pressure-defying fi fty and Varun Chakravarthy's spin masterclass helped India script a 44-run win over New Zealand here Sunday to top Group A, setting up the semifi nal against Australia in the Champions Trophy.