1.The Supreme Court Thursday held that a tribal woman or her legal heirs would be entitled to an equal share in ancestral property.

2.India has successfully test fired Akash Prime missile in Ladakh that has been customised to operate at an altitude above 4,500 metres, the defence ministry.

3.Ahmedabad was named the cleanest big city followed by Bhopal and Lucknow in the government’s annual cleanliness survey. According to the government, 14 crore people participated in the survey through face-to-face interactions, the Swachhata App.

4.The Temple City has been ranked 9th in the Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs among cities with a population between 3 to 10 lakh. The City held 34th position in last year’s survey.

5.The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Odisha police arrested two fraudsters on charges of duping a woman from Cuttack district of Rs1.56 crore on the pretext of higher returns in online gaming platforms.

6.The Punjab government directed all Deputy Commissioners (DC) to conduct DNA tests on children found begging with adults on the streets to verify their relationship.

7.The Ministry of Railways has sanctioned the fourth line between Ranital Link Cabin and Bhadrak station (5.06 km) at an estimated cost of Rs149.32 crore.

8.Ukraine’s parliament appointed the country’s first new prime minister in five years Thursday,

9.Normal life was hit across the City Thursday following the 12-hour ‘Odisha Bandh’ enforced by Congress, and seven other Opposition parties, over the death of a Fakir Mohan Autonomous College student.  

10.Police arrested four employees of a private English Medium School at Champua in Keonjhar district in connection with the suicide of a Class X male student.

11.Uttarakhand Police has taken action against more than 300 fake babas under Operation Kalnemi across the Kumaon division.

12.Dr Gopikanta Suna, 32, Assistant Professor, School of Education, GMU in Sambalpur, has been arrested in connection with Mahila PS case-56 of July 16, 2025 under Section 69 of BNS,” .

13.The 20-year-old mountaineer Meghalaya's Rifi ness Warjri recently etched her name in history as the youngest person from the state to conquer Mount Everest.

14.Emerging evidences indicate that poor oral health is closely associated with several health problems, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, adverse pregnancy outcomes and Alzheimer’s disease, oncologists Dr Abhishek Shankar and Dr Vaibhav Sahni from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi said in an article published in The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia earlier this month.

15.Israeli forces killed at least 27 people in attacks in the Gaza Strip Thursday.