1.The NEET PG 2025 examination has been postponed following a directive from the Supreme Court. The move comes after the court ordered that the postgraduate medical entrance test must be held in a single shift to maintain transparency and fairness.

2.Security forces Monday recovered over 5 tonnes of explosive materials looted by Maoists in Sundargarh district.

3.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for 13 development projects worth around Rs275 crore at Balia Pada in Bhadrak district.

4.Forty-eight years after trundling on tyres used for Boeing aircraft, the chariot used during ISKCON's Rath Yatra in Kolkata has got new tyres that are used for Sukhoi 4th generation fi ghter jets.

5.State Higher Education department has extended the deadline for submitting the Common Application Form (CAF) for Plus III (Undergraduate) admissions through Student Academic Management System (SAMS) portal till June 4.

6.The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police has seized two elephant tusks worth a total of Rs 50 lakh and detained one person on the charge of smuggling wildlife body parts, an offi - cial statement said.

7.Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles will visit India this week as part of a four-nation trip that is aimed at boosting Canberra’s security cooperation with South and Southeast Asia.

8.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers Wednesday, the first after India's punitive military action against Pakistan under Operation Sindoor launched in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.

9.Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh launched ‘Bharat Gen’, an indigenously developed artificial intelligence-based multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) for Indian languages.

10.The Delhi Bar Association (Tis Hazari) has exempted its members from wearing the compulsory black coats in summer in the district court.

11. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress Monday sharply criticised the Delhi BJP government, claiming “nearly 800 slum homes were demolished in Madrasi Camp, just a day after Chief Minister Rekha Gupta publicly assured that no slums would be touched”.

12. Iran is poised to reject a US proposal to end a decades-old nuclear dispute, an Iranian diplomat said Monday, dismissing it as a “non-starter” that fails to address Tehran’s interests or soften Washington’s stance on uranium enrichment.

13.Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul ended barely an hour after they began Monday, a day after a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s nuclear-capable strategic bombers.

14.India’s new Electric Vehicle (EV) policy outlook seems brighter for India as the government has decided to lower import tax for foreign automakers that pledge to invest in domestic EV production, as it looks to strengthen local manufacturing and draw in global industry leaders.

15.NMDC aims to increase iron ore production by 22 per cent to 55 million tonnes in FY26, as part of its aggressive 100 million tonnes expansion plan by 2030.