NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 16 September – 5 Mins read
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- Son’s Salute In Military Uniform For Colonel Killed In Action In Kashmir; Col Manpreet Singh’s wife, sister, mother, and other family members were inconsolable, visuals from the spot showed
- Infosys Only Indian Firm On TIME World’s 100 Best Companies List; Besides Infosys, seven other Indian companies found their names mentioned in the TIME’s list, which featured 750 companies
- There Is No Whisper Of Crime…” SC In Editors Guild Case; bench asked why FIR should not be quashed and gave two weeks for a reply. It also extended the interim relief given to the journalists
- Defence Ministry cleared procurement of various weapons systems, platforms including Dhruvastra short range air-to-surface missile and 12 Su-30 MKI fighter jets at a cost of around ₹ 45,000Cr
- NASA calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon” (UAP), better known to the public as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs
- SC sought the response of all HCs & tribunals – whether they disbanded the hybrid mode of hearing cases, allowing lawyers and litigants to appear in a matter through video-conferencing as well
- Tamil Nadu Pottery Artist Comes Up With Environment-Friendly Ganesha Idols For Ganesh Chaturthi by mixing seeds with soil; once immersed seeds can grow into big plants
- Multi-Crore ‘Tech Support’ Scam Busted In Guwahati, 200 Detained; fraud being carried out for past two years, and Bitcoin and hawala channels were used to move the money that was being earned
- Apple’s Big Move After France Bans iPhone 12 Due To High Radiation; promised a software update that will fix the excess radiation
- India To Get Globally monoclonal antibody From Australia For Nipah Treatment; given to 14 patients infected with Nipah Virus outside India and all of them have survived
- India may add up to 30 GW more thermal power capacity; Govt receives Rs 1,487 crore from NTPC as dividend; Tata Steel to get £500 mn from UK govt for Port Talbot
- Solar energy shines in global survey with 68% support; Green funding: SBI plans to bundle home loans with rooftop solar installations; VECV to supply 1,000 electric buses to GreenCell Mobility in next 5 years
- Indian Oil becomes title sponsor of MotoGP Bharat; MahaRERA plans mechanism to monitor housing projects’ quality; Reliance attracts luxury brands from Gucci to Louis Vuitton to its space amid India’s economic boom
- Telco Industry warns govt move to bring fibre-based broadband tech under one license will jack up prices, degrade quality
- SpiceJet questions the maintainability of insolvency petitions by aircraft lessors Wilmington and Celestial; completes $1.5 million payment to Credit Suisse, shares rise
- Delhi HC: Existing rules on mandatory insurance cover, helmets on 2-wheelers applicable to electric vehicle
- Circus Performer Spins 8 Flaming Hula Hoops, Breaks Guinness Record; Grace Good achieved her remarkable feat by dedicating herself to hula hooping since discovering passion for it at age of 18
- UK Declares Russia’s Mercenary Group Wagner A “Terrorist Organisation” which will make it illegal to be a member or to support it; North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Inspects Sanctioned Fighter Jet Plant In Russia; Putin, Kim Jong Un Exchange Rifles During Meet, Putin Gifts Kim Space Suit Glove
- Flight In US Dropped 28,000 Feet In 10 Minutes, Then Reverses Course; FAA also acknowledged the “pressurisation issue”, adding that it caused the pilot to reverse course
- China Defence Minister Li Shangfu, Not Seen In Weeks, Being Probed By Beijing; procurement of military equipment; US Claims Li Has Been Ousted, Placed Under House Arrest
- Pakistan Has 170 Nuclear Warheads, May Increase to 200 by 2025; Dark Clouds Hover over Nawaz Sharif’s Return as Pak SC Restores Corruption Cases
- Sri Lanka President Appoints Committee to Probe British Channel’s Accusations on 2019 Easter Terror Attacks
- Libya’s Deadly Floods: Over 3,000 Deaths, 10,000 missing caused by Storm Daniel tore through the coastal city of Derna
- Saudi Arabia hosted Iran-backed Houthi rebels for talks to end the brutal civil war that has crippled Yemen
- Asia Cup 2023: Shubman Gill, Axar Patel Heroics In Vain As Bangladesh Beat India By 6 Runs
- Today’s Word – Jargoon – Brilliant pale or colourless zircon
