1.Paul Thomas Anderson’s time-hopping revolutionary drama ‘One Battle After Another’ was the big winner at the 98th Academy Awards, taking home a total of six Oscars, including Best Picture.

2.Anderson was awarded Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Sean Penn was named Best Supporting Actor. The film also won Best Editing and the first-ever Oscar for Best Casting.

3.Girijakumar Baliyar Singh’s Odia poetry collection ‘Padapurana’ has won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2025. Each award carries a casket containing an engraved copper plaque, a shawl and a cash prize of Rs 1,00,000.

 4.A US federal government commission has flagged the alleged worsening of religious freedom in India and called for it to be designated as a “country of particular concern”, while recommending for targeted sanctions on entities like Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

5.The state government Monday ordered a judicial inquiry into the tragic fire at the Trauma Care ICU of SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack that claimed 10 lives in the wee hours of the day.

6.Founder and Chairperson of Reliance Foundation Nita M. Ambani was conferred the KISS Humanitarian Award 2025 at the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) campus here Monday.

7.Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda told the Legislative Assembly Monday that the government faces a land shortage, even for burial grounds and is forced to purchase land for this purpose in some cases.

8.The ruling BJP Manmohan Samal and Sujeet Kumar won two of the four Rajya Sabha seats from Odisha. While the opposition BJD Santrupt Misra and a saffron party-backed Independent candidate Dilip Ray bagged one seat in the biennial polls .

9.The Election Commission has removed the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, Director General of Police, and Kolkata police commissioner, among others, in an unprecedented administrative shake-up in the state ahead of the high-stakes assembly polls.

10.As many as 47 villages in the Lakhimpur Kheri district sharing borders with Nepal would be developed as the first villages on the border under the Centre-sponsored Vibrant Village Programme II (VVP II) with all-weather road and telecommunication connectivity.

11. The Election Commission Monday transferred Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) of five districts of Assam, a day after the announcement of the Assembly poll schedule.

12.The Election Commission has removed the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, Director General of Police, and Kolkata police commissioner, among others, in an unprecedented administrative shake-up in the state ahead of the high-stakes Assembly polls.

13.At least ten patients were killed after a major fire erupted in an ICU in government-run SCB Medical College and Hospital here early Monday, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said.

14.The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Monday warned Class X and XII board exam evaluators of legal action for sharing confi dential information on social media.

15.The suspension of eight Opposition MPs from the Lok Sabha is likely to be revoked Tuesday, citing a decision taken at a meeting convened by Speaker Om Birla