1.The first U.S. strikes against Yemen’s Houthis since Donald Trump took office killed 31 people on Saturday evening, the rebels said.  

2.Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday contended that incorporating the Tamil letter in the logo for the State budget 2025-26 was to assert the State government’s language policy.

3.Weeks after his controversial remarks against pahadis, or the people of the hills, Uttarakhand Finance and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Aggarwal submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday.

4.The Delhi High Court is slated to hear on Monday a plea by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against the bail granted to former Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in an excise policy-linked money laundering case.

5.The state government with support from World Food Organisation (WFO) has mooted steps to open ‘Poshan Kendras’ to provide essential commodities at subsidised rates in the state Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare minister Krushna Chandra Patra said Sunday.

6.In 2000, a Microsoft executive pitched a bold idea to mountaineer and physics professor Chetan Nayak: join Microsoft, scale Mount Rainier, and together build a quantum computer.

7.The intense heat showed no signs of relenting as temperatures continued to soar across the state Sunday. Boudh recorded the highest temperature at 43.6°C, making it the hottest place in the country for the second day in a row.

8.Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra told the media Sunday that e-KYC (know your customer) verifi cation is going on across the state and a little more than 30 lakh ration card beneficiaries have not done their e-KYC verification.

9.Stateowned SAIL has plans to more than double the capacity of its Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) to around 9 million tonne per annum at an investment of `30,000 crore, a move which will boost supplies to sectors like defence, oil & gas, automobiles among others.

10.The wheat procurement by the Uttar Pradesh government for Rabi marketing season 2025-26 will begin from March 17 and will continue until June 15 across 6,500 procurement center.

11.Pilgrim donations at the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu and Kashmir has gone up to Rs171.90 crore in Financial Year 2024-25 (till January) from Rs63.85 crore in 2020-21, according to the temple board.

12.After a gap of about ten years, India and New Zealand Sunday announced resumption of negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) to boost economic ties.

13.A massive consignment of methamphetamine tablets worth `88 crore was seized and four members of an international drug cartel were arrested in Imphal and Guwahati zones, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said Sunday.

14.Foreign investors continue to pull back money from the Indian equity market withdrawing a little over Rs30,000 crore in the first fortnight of the month amid escalation in global trade tensions.

15.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it has been selected for the Digital Transformation Award 2025 by Central Banking, London, UK.