Today’s Top News – 5 May 2025

TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 7th edition of Bihar Khelo India Youth Games 2025 through a video message yesterday. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Sports Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya addressed the opening ceremony at Pataliputra Sports Complex in Patna.

2. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar visited to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh yesterday. The Vice President participated in an interactive program with professors and students at Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya.

3. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launches India’s first Genome-edited Rice varieties; The two varieties to increase the yield and reduce cost.

4. Union Home Minister Amit Shah today stressed that people need to learn and practice Sanskrit language because a great amount of work of knowledge is available in Sanskrit.

5. Election Commission will soon launch a single-point App ECINET for stakeholders. the new one-stop platform, ECINET, will integrate and reorient over 40 of EC’s existing mobile and web applications.

6. Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr Ramdas Athawale said that the government is committed to the overall progress of Sikkim. He congratulated the people of Sikkim, as the state is celebrating 50 years of statehood.

7. Over 55,000 Visit Kedarnath in Two Days as Char Dham Yatra Begins.

8. The first batch of Haj pilgrims from the Union Territory of Ladakh was flagged off yesterday by the Chairperson of the Haj Committee, UT Ladakh. The batch, comprising 43 pilgrims from Leh district.

9. Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, participated in a special edition of the Fit India Sundays on Cycle initiative, titled ‘Cycling with Teachers’, at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi.

10. Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma has flagged off vehicles carrying machinery for making eco-friendly leaf plates and cups to tribal villages funded from the Governor’s Discretionary Grants.

11. Pune Railway Station Set for Major Redevelopment, New Train Services Launched. The redevelopment will include the construction of four new platforms and the installation of world-class digital infrastructure.

12. Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar will be on a one-day tour to Karnataka today. During this visit, the vice president will pay a visit to the College of Forestry in Sirsi in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka.

13. Yoga practitioner, a Padma Shri awardee, Baba Sivanand passed away in Varanasi on Saturday night. He was 128 years old. He had been admitted to Banaras Hindu University Hospital on April 30 due to health-related complications.

14. Rains lashed many parts of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, bringing down the temperature by two to nine degrees Celsius throughout the state. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast an orange warning for some places and a yellow.

15. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Nicobar Islands today.

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LEGAL REPORT
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1. The Punjab Police have arrested two individuals in Amritsar for allegedly spying for Pakistan. The accused, identified as Palak Sher Masih and Suraj Masih, were allegedly involved in leaking sensitive information and photographs of military installations, including Army cantonments and air bases in Amritsar.

2. No talks with Maoists until they lay down arms: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar made it clear that there is no question of holding talks with Maoists.

3. The death of a 23-year-old Kashmiri youth after he was picked up by the security forces for interrogation in connection with a recent militancy-related incident that had occurred in the southern district of Kulgam sparked protests and a call for an impartial probe by political parties on Sunday.

4. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Sunday announced that his government will introduce a new, stringent law to prevent religious conversion of tribal people, and possibly others.

5. Day after being dismissed from service for allegedly concealing his marriage with a Pakistani woman, Central Reserve Police Force trooper Munir Ahmed on Sunday said he married his cousin nearly a month after getting permission from the force’s headquarters last year. He also appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and the CRPF to relook into his case, claiming that “he has completed all the formalities as per the rules and had done no wrong.”

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Odisha Government Forms Three-member Probe Panel on Cuttack Bridge Collapse. The mishap took place on Saturday evening at the construction site of a new bridge over the Kathajodi river in Cuttack’s Khannagar locality
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
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1. First World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit, WAVES concludes; WAVES Bazaar witnesses business deals over one thousand three hundred crore rupees.

2. The Andhra Pradesh State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with leading company Creativeland Asia Private Limited to develop the first “Transmedia Entertainment City” in the state.

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DEFENCE News
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1. PM Modi met Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh in New Delhi. The meeting came amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack.

2. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will hold a bilateral meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Mr Gen Nakatani, in New Delhi today.

3. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said that as a Defence Minister, it is his responsibility to work with the armed forces and give befitting reply to those who cast evil eye on India. The Defence Minister said this while addressing the Sanskriti Jagran Mahotsav in New Delhi.

4. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out maiden flight-trials of its Stratospheric Airship Platform from Sheopur Trial site at Madhya Pradesh.

5. Border Security Force is all set to get the government’s final nod to raise 16 more battalions, comprising around 17,000 troopers, and set up two forward headquarters for its western and eastern commands guarding the Pakistan and Bangladesh frontiers, respectively.

6. Three Army personnel, including a junior commissioned officer, were killed when their vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a 500-metre deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Sunday. The Army truck was part of a convoy moving from Jammu to Srinagar along National Highway 44. The accident occurred near Battery Chashma at around 11.30 am.

05 May (Monday)
Vedic Ritu/ Vasanta
Drik Ritu : Grishma (Summer)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
(In Purnimanta calendar)
Vikram Samvat – 2082
Month : Vaishak 23
(In Amanta calendar)
Shaka Samvat – 1947
Month : Vaishak 08
Tithi : Navami
Nakshatra: Ashlesha (up to 2:01 pm)Magha
Rahu : 07:32 AM – 09:09 AM
Yamaganda : 10:46 AM – 12:23 PM

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