1.Girls continued to outperform boys in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class X and XII examinations this year, even as the state registered a pass percentage of 78.74 in Class XII and an impressive 92.40 per cent in Class X, according to the Board sources.

2.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday launched development projects worth over Rs420.13 crore and pledged to set up industries worth Rs10,000 crore in Mayurbhanj district.

3.Most of the places in Odisha continued to reel under hot weather conditions Tuesday, with Jharsuguda town in the western part of the state being the hottest at 43 degrees Celsius.

4.The Odisha State Bar Council has issued a show-cause notice to Archana Nag for allegedly concealing details of pending criminal cases in her application for a lawyer’s license—a move that raises serious concerns about the integrity of her enrollment process.

5.The wife of an SSB jawan, who had to rush to the border, died at VSS Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR) in Burla of Sambalpur district while undergoing treatment for post-delivery complications following the birth to her child.

6.Two more newly trained sniffer dogs were deployed Sunday in the Similipal National Park to strengthen wildlife protection efforts.

7.India Tuesday expelled a Pakistani offi cial working at the Pakistan high commission for indulging in activities not in keeping with his offi cial status. The external affairs ministry said the offi cial has been given 24 hours to leave India.

8.A Delhi court Tuesday granted bail to 10 TMC leaders, including Derek O'Brien, Sagarika Ghose and Saket Gokhale, in a case registered against them for their protest in April last year in front of the Election Commission of India despite a prohibitory order being in place.

9.A top offi cer of the Indian military Tuesday briefed defence attaches or their representatives from a large number of countries on the “successful conduct of Operation Sindoor”, offi cials said.

10.The United States will cut the “deminimis” tariff for low-value items imported from China, a White House executive order said Monday, further de-escalating a potentially damaging trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

11.Outgoing Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna Tuesday voiced concern over “truth defi cit” in the legal profession and emphasised the role of the Bar and the Bench in earning public trust.

12.The Election Commission has resolved the issue of voter cards having similar numbers and those with such cards have been issued fresh ones with new numbers, sources said Tuesday.

13.The Supreme Court Tuesday called NIA's terror fi nancing allegation against a Delhi-based businessman held in the Rs 21,000 crore Gujarat's Mundra Port drug haul case as "premature" and "speculative" even as it rejected his bail plea.

14.The state government Tuesday said the MPs and MLAs of the state can recommend up to 15 most deserving cases of transfer of teachers belonging to elementary and secondary schools in their constituencies.

15.The BCCI and IPL franchises have ramped up pressure on foreign boards to ensure that their players return for the league’s resumption May 17 despite some lingering safety concerns in the wake of India-Pakistan military hostilities.