NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 27 August – 5 Mins read
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- BWF World Championships Semifinal: HS Prannoy Loses In Deciding Game, Ends Campaign With Bronze Medal
- New video shows Chandrayaan-3 rover roaming around Shiv Shakti Point in search of lunar secrets
- NASA, SpaceX Crew-7 Of Four Lift Off To International Space Station; 7th routine mission to the orbital platform for Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with the first coming in 2020
- An eight-year-old elephant was rescued from a well and reunited with its herd in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district
- Lessor to Delhi HC: From fan blades to escape slides, critical parts are missing from at least two planes of India’s bankrupt Go First airline
- Booths run by women, apps to empower voters, cells to check fake news: ECI gears up for Chhattisgarh polls
- UP School’s Horror: I’m Handicapped, So; Teacher Justifies Slap Muslim Classmate Shocker; “Beaten For An Hour; pressure mounts on family to ‘compromise’
- Alternative road opened in Himachal’s Pandoh to divert vehicular traffic; Hundreds of people were stuck near Pandoh in Mandi district after landslides triggered by heavy rain on August 23 blocked the Mandi-Kullu Highway and the Kandi Katola Road
- Aviation Body Finds Lapses In Air India’s Internal Safety Audits – 13 spot checks shown to be carried out in stations Mumbai, Goa and Delhi were verified and were established to have not been actually performed
- Madras Lawyers Body Passes Resolution Against Renaming Of the Indian Penal Code, Indian Evidence Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure
- India’s grim reality: Over 98% of senior citizens devoid of health insurance on rising costs, reveals survey by PLUM
- SBI chief Dinesh Khara likely to get extension as govt mulls relaxing retirement age of PSB heads, MDs; Overcrowding of private credit funds leading to underpricing of risk
- FPIs invest ₹10,690 cr in Indian equities this month, sell ₹15,817 cr in cash market taking into account debt, hybrid, debt-VRR, and equities
- FinMin receives proposal to consider priority sector lending for EVs; not only reduce cost of finance, also provide funding to more people for such purchases and increase penetration of electric vehicles
- EU looking at petroleum products made from Russian crude oil in India finding way to its market; Govt considering inclusion of EVs in priority sector, to help increase funding access; L&T, IOCL & Renew form a joint venture for green hydrogen
- Ray of hope for 20,000 homebuyers as work begins in Jaypee Infra’s ‘ghost town’ in Noida; India’s real estate sector is expected to expand to $5.8 trn by 2047
- Airtel won’t buy 700 MHz in next auction, will only target spectrum expiring in 2024; Strong signals from investors, Vi may get much-needed cash soon
- Parents in Saudi Arabia could face imprisonment if their children stay away from school for 20 days without a valid reason
- Russia’s Wagner Mercenaries Face Uncertainty After the Presumed Death of Its Leader in a Plane Crash; Shelling Kills Civilians in Ukraine’s Northeast as Fears Grow of a Second Russian Takeover; Putin orders Wagner fighters to sign oath of allegiance after Prigozhin’s demise
- Vivek Ramaswamy Hints at Joining Trump as His Running Mate in Next Year’s Presidential Polls; Ramaswamy faces curiosity and skepticism in Iowa after center-stage performance in GOP debate
- Pope warns of social media perils: relationships reduced to algorithms, partisan propaganda, hatred
- China sends aircraft and vessels toward Taiwan days after US approves $500-million arms sale
- Mob attack on Christians suspected to be orchestrated as part of hate campaign against minority, says Pakistan’s top rights body
- Today’s Word – Palaeophile – Antiquarian