1. Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai was Wednesday sworn in as the 52nd Chief Justice of India.

2. India achieved a signifi cant milestone in its counter-drone capabilities with the successful test fi ring of its low-cost, hard-kill counter-swarm drone system, ‘Bhargavastra’, at the Seaward Firing Range in Gopalpur Wednesday.

3.The state government Wednesday decided to reserve 11.25 per cent of seats for the students belonging to the Socially and Economically Backward Class (SEBC), taking the total ratio of quota in education to 50 per cent in the state.

4.The state Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, approved six proposals, including merger of the state-sponsored Mamata Yojana with the Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), Wednesday.

5.The state government Wednesday appointed Asit Kumar Mohapatra as the chairperson of Odisha Real Estate Regulatory Authority (ORERA).

6.Jaleswar sub-divisional police offi cer (SDPO) Brajamohan Pradhan has accused Balasore SP Raj Prasad of mental harassment and written a letter to senior authorities warning that he may take extreme steps, like suicide, if the issue is not addressed promptly.

7.Security forces Wednesday declared a major success saying they have demolished the “invincibility” of the Maoists and killed 31 ultras in and around a treacherous hill along the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border in the biggest ever coordinated operation carried out by them to eliminate the menace by next March.

8.Jawaharlal Nehru University has suspended an academic memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Turkiye's Inonu University, citing national security considerations, offi cials of the university here confi rmed Tuesday.

9.India Wednesday outrightly rejected as “vain and preposterous” China renaming some places in Arunachal Pradesh and said such attempts will not alter the “undeniable” reality that the state “was, is, and will” always remain an integral part of India.

10.The Supreme Court Wednesday directed all states and union territories to frame guidelines to ensure proper footpaths for pedestrians calling it their constitutional right.

11.The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to list for urgent hearing a plea seeking the registration of an FIR against the Allahabad High Court's Justice Yashwant Varma in connection with the cash discovery row.

12.Forty climbers scaled the world’s highest peak Mt Everest Wednesday, according to expedition organisers. Those who summited the 8849-metre peak included people from Nepal as well as foreigners.

13.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to release $1.3 billion to Bangladesh in June, after completing a fourth review of its $4.7-billion loan programme and a key breakthrough in talks on exchange rate reforms, the fi nance ministry said.

14.The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved `3,706 crore semiconductor plant at Jewar in Uttar Pradesh, to be set up by the HCL-Foxconn joint venture to manufacture display driver chips for mobile phones, laptops, and automobiles.

15.India’s star athlete Neeraj Chopra has been conferred with the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army. The announcement was made by the Ministry of Defence in the Gazette of India, a weekly authorised journal of the Government of India, Wednesday.