1.Eminent Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla was Saturday named the recipient of the 59th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour. He will be the fi rst writer from Chhattisgarh to receive the award.

2.Twitter’s iconic bird logo that was removed from the company's former San Francisco headquarters when Elon Musk took over the social media company and rebranded it to X has sold for nearly USD 35,000 at an auction.

3. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and his Chhattisgarh counterpart Vishnu Deo Sai Saturday agreed to fi nd a way for a peaceful and amicable solution to the Mahanadi water sharing dispute between the two neighbouring states.

4.At least two persons were killed, 67 others injured and over 600 houses damaged due to rain, thunderstorms and lightning in separate places across the state in the last 24 hours, officials said Saturday.

5.Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna Saturday constituted a three-member committee to conduct an inquiry into allegations against Justice Yashwant Varma from whose offi cial residence a large stash of cash was allegedly discovered after a fire.

6.The data reveals that 8,159 child marriages have taken place across Odisha from 2019 to February 2025. Of them, 1,347 cases have been reported from Nabarangpur, the highest among all 30 districts of the state during that period. The state has reported at least three child marriage cases every day during the last six years.

7.As many as 328 children working as labourers in various parts of the state have been rescued by authorities between 2019 and February 2025, according to government data.

8.Former Orissa High Court chief justice S Muralidhar Friday said the media in India has had to fi ght for its independence as many mainstream media are either owned by “large corporate houses or by political parties”.

9.Kerala Police Saturday said that as part of its special drive, D-Hunt, to prevent the sale and use of psychotropic substances like MDMA, it has registered 7,038 cases and arrested 7,307 individuals across the state within a month of launching the initiative.

10. Justice BR Gavai, who led a delegation of Supreme Court judges that visited Manipur Saturday, called upon people of the ethnic strife-torn state to work together to restore peace and harmony.

11.Israeli artillery and airstrikes hit south Lebanon Saturday after Israel said it had intercepted rockets fi red from across the border, a clash endangering a shaky truce that ended a year-long war between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

12.The Indian stock markets witnessed a strong rebound this week, with benchmark indices Nifty and Sensex surging over 4 per cent – the best weekly performance in four years.

13.The production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes have clocked Rs 1.61 lakh crore in investment, Rs 14 lakh crore in production and Rs 5.31 lakh crore in exports while creating 11.5 lakh jobs, the government said Saturday.

14.Urging the people to maintain peace, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee left for a visit to the UK Saturday to seek investments for the state.

15.The CBI has fi led a closure report in the alleged suicide case of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, offi cials said Saturday.