NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 04 Jun – 5 Mins read
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- 288 Dead, 803 Injured After Horrific Three-Train Crash In Odisha; Accident Shifts Focus From New Trains To Safety; “Those Responsible Will Be Severely Punished,” Says PM In Odisha; Praises People Assisting In Relief Work
- An on leave NDRF jawan on Coromandel Express was perhaps 1st to alert emergency services about the train’s accident; Some railway experts have, however, questioned whether Coromandel Express may have hit the goods train directly inside a “loop line
- Odisha ‘Ground Zero’: Mangled Metal, Human Remains, Personal Effects Etch Never-seen-before Train Tragedy; Biden – “Heartbroken” By Train Crash; Xi Jinping ‘Shocked’ at Odisha Tragedy; ‘Grave Lapse in Ensuring Safety of Rail Traffic’: Odisha Train Crash Reminds of 2019 Warning on Vacant Posts
- Still in Progress’: Odisha Train Crash Puts Spotlight on Status of Decade-old Safety Review on Railways; Preliminary probe suggests Coromandel Express entered loop line instead of main line, hit goods train
- 3,734 FIRs registered and a 65 people arrested in the ethnic violence which broke out in Manipur on May 3; witnessed 4,014 cases of arson with 98 people losing their life
- India Beat Great Britain 4-2 In Shoot-Out Of FIH Pro League Hockey; win ensured a bonus point for India; India Maul Uzbekistan 22-0 In Opening Women’s Junior Asia Cup Match
- Pregnant Wisconsin School Bus Driver Rescues Students as Vehicle Engulfs in Flames; None injured. Woman was taken to the hospital for a checkup and doctors also evaluated the unborn baby’s health
- Taiwan Shipping Firms Is Rewarding Workers With 30-Months’ Salary As Bonus (Yang Ming Marine Transport); Evergreen Marine will give its 3,100 workers another NT$1.9 billion
- Indian American Ajay Banga on Friday took over as the President of the World Bank, making him the first person of colour to head either of the two global financial institutions – IMF & WB
- India’s Forex Reserves Fall For 2nd Consecutive Week To $589.19 Billion; RBI may consider changing CRR computation timing
- India bans 14 fixed-dose medicines for likely posing risks to health; lack therapeutic justification & recommended to be banned; A FDC contains two or more active ingredients in a fixed dose ratio
- Chief Justice Intervenes In Allahabad HC’s ‘Manglik’ Order For Rape Survivor; HC had asked for a rape survivor’s horoscope to be examined after accused said he cannot marry her because she is Manglik
- UP: MP from Kannauj Subrata Pathak and 51 others have been booked for allegedly assaulting police personnel, leaving three sub-inspectors and four constables injured
- TRAI Directs Telecom Providers to Set Up Digital Platform for Customer Consent to Curb Promotional Calls, Messages; Telecom minister says people should not take calls from ‘unknown’ numbers
- Move over hatchbacks, Indian roads are fast turning into battlegrounds for big cars; Ola gears up to cement its leadership credentials in India’s electric two-wheeler market
- US To Put China At Centre Of Future Arms Control Efforts; Newly Approved US Flights By Chinese Airlines Avoid Russian Airspace
- Bird Flu Virus Changing Rapidly In Largest-Ever Outbreak – causing record cases of avian influenza in birds across the world is changing rapidly, as calls increase for countries to vaccinate their poultry
- Joe Biden signed into law a debt ceiling bill passed by Congress after weeks of wrangling, moving to avert a catastrophic, self-induced default in the world’s biggest economy
- Nine Indian sailors of a merchant vessel who were held captive for several months by a local militia in Libya have been released
- Primary Schools In US State Ban King James Bible For ”Vulgarity And Violence” – decision was taken after a parent complained that the book has material unsuitable for children
- Thought Experiment’: US Air Force Colonel Retracts Comments on AI Going Rogue in Simulation Test
- Iga Swiatek Shines In 51-minute French Open Blitz As Coco Gauff Ends Mirra Andreeva Run; 4th seed Elena Rybakina Withdraws
- Today’s Word – Jentacular – Of, Like Or Pertaining To Breakfast
