1.Shubhanshu Shukla’s space odyssey as part of the commercial mission to the International Space Station has set the stage for achieving India’s own ambitions of human spacefl ight – Gaganyaan – and building the Bharat Antariksha Station soon after.

2.India constituted 6.4 per cent of the global population of children who did not receive a single dose of any vaccine in 2024, according to a United Nations report.

3.The Supreme Court Tuesday granted protection from coercive action to a cartoonist accused of sharing alleged objectionable cartoons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS workers on social media.

4.Children who obtained Aadhaar when they were below the age of five, need to mandatorily update their biometrics after crossing age of seven, else they will have to face risk of deactivation of their unique id, according to an official statement.

5.The Union Health Ministry Tuesday termed reports claiming it has directed vendors to put warning labels on food items such as samosas, jalebis and laddos as “misleading, incorrect, and baseless”.

6.The execution of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse on death row in Yemen, has been postponed by Yemeni authorities, government sources said Tuesday.

7.Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai are among the world's top 130 cities for students with the national capital being ranked as the most affordable city globally for students.

8. Two college lecturers in Dakshina Kannada district and their associate have been arrested for allegedly raping a student after ‘blackmailing’ her with videos and photos.

9.The coordinator of FM College’s ICC Tuesday said the panel had recommended removal of Samira Kumar Sahoo, accused of sexually harassing the female student, leading to her death by self-immolation, from the post of HoD, Integrated BEd.

10.In a bizarre decision, more than 150 families who had been displaced seven decades ago by the Hirakud Dam project, and resettled in other villages, have now been served with fresh eviction notices by the government, a report said Tuesday.

11.Israel's army has said it struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clashed with Druze militias in the latest escalation in the Middle East country struggling for stability after a 13-year civil war

12.Thousands of Afghans including many who worked with British forces have been secretly resettled in the UK after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that they could be targeted by the Taliban, the British government revealed Tuesday.

13.The Punjab Police on Wednesday arrested the man allegedly responsible for the hit-and-run incident that led to the death of 114-year-old marathon legend Fauja Singh on the Jalandhar-Pathankot highway.

14.Domestic passenger vehicle sales declined 1.4 per cent to 10,11,882 units in the first quarter of this fi scal from 10,26,006 in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) said Tuesday.

15.Australia pacer Mitchell Starc scripted history in the third Test against the West Indies as he claimed a fi ve-wicket haul in just 15 balls, the quickest in Test history, as the visitors bundled out the West Indies for 27, which is the second-lowest Test total ever.