1.The Supreme Court Tuesday said there were not enough judges in trial courts in the country to implement its directions like setting up of a special court in each district to exclusively deal with sexual offences against children under the POCSO law.

2.Virat Kohli did not finish the chase for once but his measured 84-run knock steered India into their fifth Champions Trophy final with a clinical four-wicket win over an under-strength and profligate Australia in the first last four clash here Tuesday.

3.A 21-yearold college student bludgeoned his parents and sister to death in Jagatsinghpur district Tuesday morning as they were opposed to his addiction to online games, police said.

4.India’s wealthy southern states are up in arms against a proposal by the Centre to redraw boundaries of parliamentary constituencies, arguing it will result in less representation for them compared to the poorer, more populous northern states.

5.The state has attracted investment proposals worth Rs 4.33 lakh crore in renewable energy sector, including Rs 2,151 crore in solar power. The Union and state governments are providing subsidies to the tune of Rs78,000 and Rs60,000, respectively for installation of 3-kw solar system – covering more than 80% of the total cost.

6.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday announced ex gratia assistance of Rs 4 lakh each for the kin of two government job aspirants who died during physical tests.

7.The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered an on-spot inquiry into the death of a Nepalese girl student at KIIT University in Odisha and asked its officials to submit a report by March 10.

8.A day after announcing that March 5 would be observed as the birth anniversary of former CM Biju Patnaik and not as Panchayati Raj Diwas, the state government Tuesday said that all schools and colleges in Odisha will remain open on the day.

9.Our universities are the foundation of Viksit Odisha and Viksit Bharat. As academic leaders, you have the responsibility to foster excellence, drive reforms, and ensure our institutions remain dynamic centers of knowledge, Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati said Tuesday.

10.Uttar Pradesh is home to 2,397 river dolphins, nearly 40 per cent of the total population of the aquatic mammal in India, according to an official statement.

11.The Supreme Court has held using terms such as “miyan-tiyan” and “Pakistani” was not an offence of hurting religious sentiments though made in poor taste.

12.Ahead of their planned protest in Chandigarh March 5, several Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders were detained in early morning raids at their residences Tuesday and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann denounced the agitating farmer unions, saying they have turned Punjab into a “state of dharnas” and caused huge losses to it.

13.The CBI Tuesday said it has arrested 26 railway officials including a senior divisional electrical engineer of East Cental Railway for allegedly leaking papers of a departmental examination and seized Rs1.17 crore cash during its raid.

14. By 2050, India could have over 440 million obese and overweight people, a global analysis published in The Lancet journal has estimated.

15.Beleaguered Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde resigned from the cabinet Tuesday.