NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 1 January- 5 Mins read
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- London’s Big Ben Marks 100 Years Of Broadcasting New Year’s Eve ‘Bongs’; Ever since New Year’s Eve 1923 when BBC engineer clambered onto a roof opposite the British parliament to record the strikes, live transmission has become an annual tradition
- 4 Destroyers, 1 Frigate: Navy’s Push to Enhance Security Amid Attacks on Merchant Vessels
- Happy New Year’: New Zealand, Australia Among First Nations To Ring in 2024; Residents of Auckland welcomed in new year with a fireworks display over Sky Tower, New Zealand’s tallest structure
- Situation Tense in Moreh Day After Militant Attack on Manipur Commando Unit; a village volunteer was injured in a gunfight
- “Dumb Bombs, JDAMs, White Phosphorus”, Israel Admits Using Controversial Munitions In Gaza | Hamas; Houthi Missile Hits Red Sea Ship, “23 Pro-Iran Fighters Killed” in “Israeli Strikes” on Syria, Can West Secure Red Sea?; Israeli Strikes in Central Gaza Kill at Least 35 as Netanyahu Says War Will Continue for Months
- US Navy helicopters sink 3 Houthi boats in ‘self-defence’ in Red Sea; Israel Minister Calls For Return Of Jewish Settlers To Gaza After War Is Over; “Israel Not In Position To Impose Options Over Lebanon Border”: Hezbollah; Israel Says Ready To Let Ships Bring Aid To Gaza Shores
- Govt plans to implement compulsory quality control measures for at least 240 new items in 2024, including electric fans, freezers, water bottles, and sanitary napkins
- 19 more people infected with JN.1 in Maharashtra, total Covid caseload 29; India Records 841 New Covid Cases, Three Deaths In 24 Hours
- Police arrested three accused (Kunal Pandey, Abhishek Chauhan and Saksham Patel.) in connection with the alleged rape of a woman student of IIT on the Banaras Hindu University campus
- Govt appoints former NITI Aayog V-C Dr Arvind Panagariya as head of 16th Finance Commission; Now a professor at Columbia University, USA
- Govt to States: Proposed hydropower projects can be given in-principle approval before studies are conducted on carrying capacity and cumulative impact assessment of a river basin
- Shimla records 50-60% occupancy on New Year’s Eve, ‘lowest in 40 years’ whereas it experienced occupancy rate exceeding 80% on 2023 New Year; Garbage Pile-Up Near Atal Tunnel As Himachal Sees Heavy Holiday Rush
- Boeing asks airlines (Akasa, Air India Express, SpiceJet) to inspect 737 Max jets for potential loose bolt; grounded worldwide for 20 months after two crashes in 2018 and 2019 killed a total of 346 people
- CAPFs plant 3.55 cr saplings from 2020 to 2022; MHA asks for them to be geotagged
- Bihar: Truck carrying train coach meets with accident in Bhagalpur, leads to traffic jams; lost control and hit one of the railings of Lohiya Bridge
- NIA identifies 43 Khalistan supporters involved in violence at Indian Missions abroad; Scales up crackdown on terror network, arrests 625 people, registers 68 cases in 2023
- CAPA India says Expect high competitive intensity between IndiGo, Air India from 2024; Dense Fog Engulfs Delhi, Adjoining Areas, Flights, Trains Hit; Srinagar Shivers At Minus 3.4 Degrees As Severe Cold Grips Kashmir
- 151 Myanmarese Soldiers Flee to Mizoram After Armed Ethnic Group Capture Camps in areas close to the Indian border
- French chefs Benoît Bruel and Fabien Montellanico break Guinness World Record with 1,001 Cheese variety pizza – 940 French cheeses and 61 global varieties
- Ukraine Downs Drones As Russia Retaliates For Belgorod ‘Terrorist Attack’; drones targeted at front line of defence, as well as at civilian, military and infrastructure facilities in the front-line territories”
- China Would Surely Be Reunified’: Xi Says Chinese Economy Is More Resilient And Dynamic; Taiwan’s New Hsiung Feng IIE Missile Brings Central China Within Range, What’s Beijing’s Counter?; Sri Lanka says it will not allow any Chinese research vessel to dock at its ports or in EEZ
- Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 strikes Indonesia’s West Java Island at a depth of 5 km; no immediate reports of damage or deaths
- Today’s Word – Iambic – Pattern of syllables in poetry
