NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 07 Jun – 5 Mins read
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- NIRF 2023: IIT Kanpur bags top spot in Innovation, 950 IPRs filed till now; IIT Madras retains top spot as the number 1 college under overall category for 5th consecutive year; best engineering institute for 8th consecutive year
- CBI Team At Odisha Train Crash Site As Railways Hints At “Sabotage”; Over 1,000 Lives Saved by Odisha People, Says CM Patnaik; Revised Toll Climbs to 288; 40 passengers of Coromandel Express may have got electrocuted
- Body Mix-Up Adds To Agony For Some Odisha Train Crash Victims’ Families; For those waiting for days, told by authorities bodies will be handed over only after results DNA test are out; Bodies In Refrigerated Trucks As Morgues Out Of Space
- We were told not to talk about it: Bajrang on late-night meeting with Amit Shah; athletes aren’t satisfied with the government’s response, neither is the government agreeing to our demands
- Malware Attack Detected at AIIMS; Threat Neutralised by Cyber Security Systems; AIIMS come under a cyber attack last year where its servers were affected for many days
- Kanichar Landslide in August, 2022 to Be Treated as a Special Case; Compensation to Be Provided, Says Kerala Govt
- Torrent Power to set up three Pumped Storage Hydro Projects in Maharashtra for Rs 27000Cr; Oil firms may get to operate fields for full economic life; Union Govt aims at covering refractories in PLI 2.0 to support 300 MT steel capacity target by 2030
- Nissan rolls out Magnite compact SUV marking milestone of one lakh units at Tamil Nadu plant; Honda looks to ‘Elevate’ fortune in India with 5 new SUVs by 2030
- Union Govt not looking at any tailored incentives as of now for Tesla; states can offer; EV maker One Electric launches three new models with an eye on the global market; Sustainable Aviation Fuel production set to grow, says IATA; EV startup River raises USD 15 mn in funding round led by Dubai-based Al Futtaim Group
- Delhi HC refuses to interfere with Bank of Baroda’s decision inviting EoI for sale of NBL stake; Policy Boss closes series B funding round, seeks to deepen last-mile presence; 1 Cr complaints to banks every year; As Rs 2000 notes flow back, 80% stay within banking system
- “Likely Many Deaths” In Ukraine Dam Destruction; Zelensky Says Destroyed Dam Will Not Affect Counter-offensive Plans; Discarded By Australia For F-35s, Will US Approve F/A-18 Hornet Fighter Jets For Ukraine?; Ukraine Warns of Man-Made, Ecological Disaster, Blames Russia
- Astronauts to get fries on menu as ESA learns to fry food in space where there’s no gravity to create buoyancy
- Iran unveils 1st hypersonic missile that travels faster than sound; can travel at 15 times the speed of sound. Avg speed is 16,000 feet per second, range 1,400 km. The missile’s name, ‘Fattah
- People pay ₹4,550 an hour to learn ‘Hollywood Style’ smiling in Japan; The method comprises “crescent eyes”, “round cheeks” and shaping edges of the mouth to bare eight teeth in the upper row
- NASA said its Hubble telescope has snapped a galaxy named Messier 85 which is about 50 million light-years away and holds some “surprises
- US Slaps Sanctions on Iranian, Chinese Targets Over Tehran’s Missile, Military Programs; accusing them of running a procurement network for Iran’s missile and military programs
- ‘Still Circulating, New Variants Emerging’: Covid Still A Threat, EU Watchdog Warns; Public health authorities would “have to keep their guard up”, especially during winter
- Microsoft to Pay $20MN to Settle US FTC Charges for Violating Children’s Privacy; company illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent
- Revival of red-ball cricket? Disney Star scores big with sponsor deals as India-Australia to clash in ‘pinnacle of test cricket’; Sunil Kumar creates history, bags India’s 1st ever gold in decathlon at Asian U-20 C’ships
- French Open: Belarusian Sabalenka knocks Ukraine’s Svitolina out; Maia 1st Brazilian woman in 55 yrs to reach Grand Slam QF; Carlos Alcaraz Beats Stefanos Tsitsipas, To Face Djokovic In SF
- Today’s Word – Ochlophobia – Fear of crowds
