1.Banking, postal and other services are likely to face disruption today  as more than 25 crore workers affiliated with Central and sectoral trade unions have announced to go on strike across the country to protest against new labour codes and privatisation, and press for demands such as minimum wage of Rs26,000 and old pension scheme, according to union leaders.

2.Only 55 per cent of Class 3 students can arrange numbers up to 99 in ascending or descending order while only 53 per cent of them in Class 6 know tables up to 10, a Ministry of Education (MoE) survey has found.

3.The ruling BJP Tuesday reappointed Manmohan Samal as its Odisha unit president.

4.Intensifying its crackdown on Bangladeshis and Rohingyas living illegally in the state, police Tuesday held 448 people for verification of their documents.

5.Odisha celebrated ‘Rasagola Dibasa’ Tuesday, marking the return of the sibling deities – Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath – to their abode in the 12th-century shrine in Puri after the annual Rath Yatra.

6.Deputy Chief Minister and Agriculture Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo at Krushi Bhavan, flagged off a campaign vehicle to promote rooftop gardening across fi ve major cities—Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Sambalpur, Berhampur, and Jeypore.

7.Three heritage structures associated with Mahatma Gandhi in Maharashtra’s Wardha district are set for a makeover, with a museum, prayer hall and a complex for artisans on the premises.

8.The Uttar Pradesh government is set to plant more than 12.5 crore saplings in the state under the MGNREGA scheme following the directives of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

9.Global terror fi nancing watchdog FATF Tuesday cited the February 2019 Pulwama terror attack, which killed 40 CRPF personnel, and the 2022 Gorakhnath Temple incident to say that e-commerce platforms and online payment services are being misused for terror financing.

10.Possible convergence of interest among China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh may result in serious implications for India's stability and security dynamics, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said Tuesday.

11.The Centre’s panel on air quality in Delhi-NCR Tuesday decided to put on hold the implementation of the fuel ban on end-of-life (EOL) or overage vehicles in the national capital until November 1.

12.Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's father Daulal Vaishnaw passed away at AIIMS Jodhpur Tuesday, hospital authorities said. Daulal Vaishnaw, 82.

13.President Donald Trump said Monday the US will have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after ordering a pause in critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv.

14. India plans to source about 10 per cent of its cooking gas imports from US beginning in 2026 as part of a broader effort to boost energy purchases to narrow its trade gap with Washington, four industry refining sources familiar with the matter .

15.India will hope that skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and hard-hitting opener Shafali Verma will return to run-making ways in their quest to clinch the women’s T20I series during the fourth match here Wednesday.