1.The state government is set to disburse over Rs 5,000 crore among more than 1.02 crore beneficiaries of Subhadra Yojana on the occasion of International Women’s Day Sunday.

2.Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian apologised Saturday for attacks on regional countries even as its missiles and drones flew toward Gulf Arab states.

3.Domestic cooking gas LPG price was hiked Saturday by a steep Rs60 per cylinder.

4.The red mud pond of the NALCO plant at Damanjodi has allegedly become a major source of suffering for residents of Dengajaniguda village, with locals claiming that the toxic industrial waste is contaminating their water sources and farmland.

5.Police have initiated the process to issue a Look Out Circular against rapper-musician Badshah to prevent him from leaving the country, a day after he was booked over alleged objectionable lyrics and visuals in his recently released Haryanvi music video, ‘Tateeree’.

6.JD(U) MLA Hari Narayan Singh, a close aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Saturday claimed that a “unanimous” decision has been taken to make the party supremo’s son Nishant the deputy CM in the new government to be formed upon his father’s resignation.

7.With India exploring alternative sources to further strengthen its energy security, countries like Australia, Canada and several others have offered additional gas supplies, offi cial sources said Saturday.

8.The Punjab and Haryana High Court Saturday acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the 2002 murder case of a journalist, seven years after he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the case by a special CBI court.

9.Ahead of March 31 deadline set by the Centre, as many as 130 Maoists surrendered before Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy here Saturday.

10.A Delhi court Saturday granted two weeks interim bail to Al-Falah group chairman Jawed Siddiqui in a money laundering case to allow him to take care of his wife who is undergoing treatment for stage 4 ovarian cancer

11.Pakistan government in an overnight decision has increased petrol and high-speed diesel prices by PKR 55 per litre each, the highest-ever hike.

12.Five school students, including two girls, drowned in separate incidents in Koraput and Mayurbhanj districts Saturday, police said. Three Class 10 students drowned in the backwaters of Kolab reservoir near their school in Koraput district in the afternoon.

13.The US issued a license Friday that authorizes dealings with Minerven, Venezuela's state-owned gold mining company .

14.The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the US and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East.

15.More than 67 per cent of women in India across sectors believe that pay parity exists at workplaces, while 33 per cent feel there is pay gap, a report by Naukri. com said Saturday.