Daily Curated News – E11

May 11, 2023 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 11 May – 5 Mins read

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  1. IPL 2023: MS Dhoni’s CSK Notch 27-Run Victory, Dent DC’s Playoff Hopes; “Grudges, Anger, Negativity”: Kohli’s New Post Gives Rise To Speculation
  2. US Met Museum to examine the provenance of “several hundred or more” objects that were possibly stolen from their country of origin, and then return them where necessary
  3. Union Govt Yet To Accept Report That Calls For Diesel Vehicle Ban By 2027 in cities with over 10 lakh population and switch to electric and gas-fuelled vehicles by 2027; Only Electric Bike-Taxis to Be Permitted in Delhi Under Cab Aggregator Scheme
  4. Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan Recommended for Inclusion in UNESCO World Heritage List
  5. Manipur Violence: Displaced People in Churachandpur Find Safe Passage; Opposition Calls for More Action
  6. Karnataka Exit Polls: 72% voting Advantage Congress, But Hung Verdict Not Ruled Out; 7 of 10 predicted hung assembly making Kumaraswamy as King Maker; 2 predicted for Congress, one for BJP
  7. Indian Boxers Achieve Major First, Assured Of Three Medals At 2023 Men’s World Champ; Deepak Bhoria (51kg) and Mohammed Hussamudin (57kg) registered contrasting wins to advance to SF
  8. Eknath Shinde’s Job At Stake In SC Verdict Today; will decide whether Maha CM, 15 other MLAs should be disqualified for revolting against Uddhav Thackeray in June 2022
  9. Heatwave in South Bengal Till May 12, No Respite from Formation of Cyclone ‘Mocha’ as Mercury Set to Rise
  10. Five More Vande Bharats Expected by End of June; Puri-Howrah Train to be Launched Next Week
  11. US Boy, 8, Survives Two Days Alone In Wilderness; survived by eating snow and hiding beneath a log for shelter; got lost while gathering firewood near his family’s campsite
  12. A loud sound was heard near the Golden Temple in Amritsar in the early hours today; Police, forensic team members rushed to the site of the incident and the probe is currently underway
  13. Spotify Removes Many AI-Generated Songs After Universal Music Noted Suspicious Bot Activities; Microsoft-Activision Deal Likely to Reach Final Decision in EU by May 15
  14. NCLT’s Go First ruling may dent India’s image among global lessors; will also increase India’s risk profile, resulting in lessors charging higher risk premiums
  15. Supreme Court upholds ₹278Cr award in Reliance Infra’s favour; Star Cement, Assam inks MoU for investment worth Rs 1,400Cr
  16. Telcos to push DoT, Trai to make OTTs share cost of 5G network infra; BSNL, private telcos object to Trai’s LSA-level audits
  17. NARCL offers to buy Rs 1,100Cr loans of Parenteral Drugs; India to seek pharma IPR waiver for future pandemics; Sanofi India board OKs demerger of consumer health business
  18. SCO countries adopt draft plan for interaction between their railway administrations; Customs holds 800 containers of heavy melting scrap across key ports
  19. Green Port policy launched to catalyse carbon reduction; India eyes green hydrogen bunkering at major ports by 2035; Scrapping of vehicles will reduce metals and rubber import: Nitin Gadkar; GAIL plans $4.9 billion ethane cracker in West India
  20. Microsoft To Cancel Salary Hikes, Cut Budget For Bonuses This Year; would let go of 10,000 workers; Google Introduces Search Generative Experience to Rival Microsoft Bing’s AI; Opened To 180 Countries
  21. Pak: Khan’s Supporters Attack Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif’s House; Close Aide Fawad Chaudhry Arrested Amid Protests; military asserted that no one will be allowed to take the law into their own hands; India Closely Watching As Protests Intensify
  22. China has objected to a proposal by India to blacklist senior Pakistan-based Jaish-e Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar at UNSC
  23. Russia Restores Visa-free Access for Georgians, Lifts Flight Ban; Ukraine War Will Increasingly Pit Quantity Against Quality, NATO Official Says; ‘2 km Russian Retreat In Bakhmut’, Putin ‘Denounces’ Armed Treaty, Czech Fighter Jets for Ukraine?; Restores Visa-free Access for Georgians, Lifts Flight Ban
  24. Uber Launches App-Based Flight Booking Feature for International and Domestic Travel in the UK; already offers train booking
  25. Cease-Fire Efforts Falter as Rockets Fly: Tensions Rise in Israel-Palestine Standoff; killed 23 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians
  26. BCCI Could Earn USD 1.15 Billion in Revenue Share from ICC During 2023-2027 Cycle
  27. Today’s Word – Nariform – Shaped like the nostrils or like the human nose