1.The Supreme Court Wednesday stayed the Allahabad High Court’s recent observations on grabbing of a woman’s breasts and pulling the drawstrings of her ‘pyjama’ not amounting to an attempt to rape and said it reflected total “insensitivity” and “inhuman approach”.

2.India Wednesday successfully testfi red indigenously-developed Vertically-Launched ShortRange Surface-to-Air Missile (VLSRSAM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, off the Balasore coast.

3.The CBI Wednesday conducted searches at 60 locations, including the residence of former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, in connection with the alleged Rs 6,000 crore Mahadev betting app scam, offi cials said.

4.The Delhi High Court Wednesday rapped a lawyer for using the phrase "Bhojpuri vulgarity" during an argument, and refused to entertain a plea which claimed Honey Singh's latest song 'Maniac' portrays women as "sexual objects" and he should be directed to amend the lyrics.

5.Observing that misleading advertisements could cause great harm to the society, the Supreme Court Wednesday set a two-month deadline for the states and union territories to create a grievance redressal mechanism to deal with complaints against such ads.

6.Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests in the Gaza Strip, witnesses said Wednesday, in a rare show of public anger against the militant group that has long repressed dissent and still rules the territory 17 months into the war with Israel.

7.The Supreme Court Wednesday refused the urgent mentioning of a plea for Delhi Police to register an FIR over the alleged discovery of burnt wads of cash from the offi cial residence of Delhi High Court judge Yashwant Varma.

8.Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema Wednesday presented a Rs 2.36 lakh crore budget, which focusses on tackling drug menace in the state, and allocated a whopping Rs 5,598 crore for the health sector.

9.The Delhi High Court has allowed Jammu and Kashmir MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh, alias Engineer Rashid, arrested in a terror funding case, to attend the ongoing Parliament session “in-custody” and rejected NIA’s apprehension that he was a flight risk.

10.Lok Sabha Wednesday passed a bill to set up 'Tribhuvan Sahkari University' in Gujarat's Anand with an aim to create a qualified manpower for co-operative societies.

11.The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch has arrested five persons, including a home guard, in connection Rs3.50-crore bank fraud, official sources said Wednesday.

12.A woman has been arrested in this district for allegedly defrauding people of around Rs1 crore on the pretext of providing them jobs in the Health department.

13.At least 22 per cent super rich Indians wish to leave the country due to factors like living conditions here, better standard of life abroad and also easier business environment in other countries, a survey said Wednesday.

14.President Donald Trump has cited India and Brazil in his executive order to overhaul the American election system, saying the two countries are linking voter identification to a biometric database while the US relies on self-attestation for citizenship.

15.Maruti Suzuki India Wednesday said its board has approved investment of Rs7,410 crore to set up a third plant at Kharkhoda in Haryana with a capacity of up to 2.5 lakh vehicles per year