NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 23 Jun – 5 Mins read
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- ^PM Modi at US Congress – Stability Of Indo-Pacific A Shared Concern; India Is Home To All Faiths In world; Democracies Matter And Democracies DeliverMust Do All We Can To Stop Bloodshed In Ukraine; Ensure Territory Not Used For Terrorism”: Biden Joins PM’s Warning To Pak_
- India Set to Join Artemis Accords – ‘Sending Humans Back to Moon by 2025’US, India Agree To End Six WTO Disputes, Lift Some Tariffs
- Fighter Jet Engines To Be Made In India Now, Mega Agreement With GE Sealed; India-US Astronaut Mission To Space Station Next Year In New Deal; Applied Materials to Invest $400MN to Set Up New Engineering Centre in India
- Sandalwood Box With ‘Das Danam’, 7.5-carat Green Diamond | PM Modi’s Gifts to Biden, US First Lady
- IIT Kanpur conducts test flight for cloud seeding using Cessna aircraft; will help create conditions for rain which would help to combat dry conditions and air pollution
- WTTC: Contribution of travel and tourism sector to India’s economy estimated at Rs 16.5TN for 2023; India’s office supply likely to touch 1 billion sq ft by 2030
- “Risks Were Too High”: UK Businessman Who Pulled Out Of Titanic Sub Trip; Debris field’ discovered within search area; Titanic Sub Crew Believed To Be Dead After “Catastrophic Implosion”
- Karnataka: Moment of pride for SI BS Venkatesh when he handed over charge of Mandya’s central police station to none other than his 24-year-old daughter BS Versha, now a Sub-Inspector
- PNB Housing Finance to raise Rs 5,000Cr via NCDs; OTS scheme slows down recoveries from retail portfolios for ARCs to 35 pc, stretch timelines
- Thermax subsidiary commissions wind-solar hybrid captive power plant in Gujarat; Komaki SE 2023 launched with advanced features, fire-resistant battery
- China Finds Rare Earth Deposits Along 1,000-km Himalayan Belt; mining these minerals could be a problem because of the remoteness of the year, and could take decades
- Bengaluru Society’s Bizarre Rules For Maids Sparks Outrage Online; not to use common areas such as “parks, amphitheatre, gazebos” while waiting between their jobs – instead use the waiting areas
- Rajgarh, MP: A monkey with a ₹ 21,000 bounty on its head finally caught after 2 weeks of terror during which it attacked 20 people
- Mumbai Likely to Witness Monsoon Onset on Weekend Post Cyclone Biparjoy Delay; Assam Grapples with Severe Flooding as Rainfall Inundates New Areas, 1.2 Lakh Affected in 10 Districts
- More trouble for Byju’s: Key board members, auditor resign; resignations are yet to be accepted, but Byju firmly denies & says entirely speculative
- Bank of England hikes rates to 5% in surprise move to tackle stubborn inflation; its highest since 2008 and its largest rate increase since February, following stickier inflation and wage growth
- Cash-strapped Pakistan to Lease Part of Karachi Port to UAE For $220MN; JV lease of 4/33 berths for the next 50 years; PM Hopes IMF Funds Will Be Released “As Soon As Possible
- Twin Tornadoes Touch Down, “Tennis Ball-Sized” Hail Hits Louis Tomlinson’s Concert In US, Nearly 100 Injured; 7 serious injuries
- Turkey has hiked its main interest rate from 8.5% to 15%, reversing one of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox economic policies
- Ukraine strikes Chonhar bridge to Crimea, says Russia; Russia Planning Radiation Leak At Nuclear Plant, Says Ukraine’s Zelensky
- Beijing heatwave: China capital records hottest June day in 60 years touching 41.1C (105.9F); city is experiencing a prolonged heatwave with extreme temperatures to persist until the end of June
- First electric air taxi flight takes off in Saudi Arabia, completes test drive; Flight test campaign lasted over a week and built on 18 months of collaboration between Neom, the GACA and Volocopter
- US granted 1st ever approvals to two companies to sell chicken grown directly from animal cells, becoming only 2ND country after Singapore to allow lab-grown meat to be offered to consumers
- Today’s Word – Decamerous – Having parts in tens
