NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 20 January- 5 Mins read
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- Squadron Leader Rashmi Thakur will lead the Indian Air Force’s marching contingent at the Republic Day parade on Jan 26; No Flights At Delhi Airport Between 10:20 am To 12:45 pm Till Republic Day_
- An AirAsia Thailand flight from Bangkok to Phuket erupted in chaos after passengers discovered a live snake in an overhead luggage bin
- Study Reveals How Much Climate Change May Reduce Life Expectancy – evaluated avg temp, rainfall, and life expectancy data from 191 countries from 1940-2020; expectancy decrease of approximately 0.44 years, or about six months and one week
- Bengaluru – PM Inaugurates Boeing’s Global Engineering & Tech Centre; Built at cost of ₹ 1,600Cr, the 43-acre state-of-the-art BIETC campus is Boeing largest such investment outside US
- World May Get Its First Trillionaire In A Decade, Here Are 5 Probables – Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison & Warren Buffett
- Madhya Pradesh: Stripped, Hung Upside Down: 21 Children Allege Abuse At Indore Orphanage; horror unraveled after a team of Child Welfare Committee (CWC) carried out a surprise inspection
- Thousands of men queued in Harayana during a recruitment drive to send workers to Israel, where the offensive in Gaza, now in its fourth month, has caused a shortage of labour
- Israel Allegedly Bombs Gaza University, US Asks For Clarity; Netanyahu Could Agree to Some Form of a Palestinian State: Joe Biden; “Replica” Israeli Armoured Vehicles In Gaza, Palestinians “Tortured”, Netanyahu Govt To Collapse?; No Ties With Israel Before Gaza Ceasefire: Saudi Envoy
- Tata Steel To Cut 2,800 Jobs In UK As Company Shuts 2 Blast Furnaces as industry transitions to greener production of the metal; JSPL commissions 6 MTPA hot strip mill at Angul steel plant
- A gauge of the country’s top 12 largest banks is set for its worst week since Sep 2023, erasing nearly $21 billion in market value
- Supreme Court To Get New Judge, Justice Varale Will Be 3rd Dalit Member; SC will function at its fully sanctioned strength of 34
- Bilkis Bano Convicts Must Surrender By Sunday, Supreme Court Denies Extension; cited reasons from attending family weddings and dependant parents to the harvest season – lacked merit
- CEAT forays into steel radial tyres for two-wheelers; Rolls-Royce drives in Spectre; dealer expects luxury car sales to grow in India; Suzuki Motorcycle India partners with SMFG India Credit Co for vehicle finance
- With Golden Bow And Arrow, Ram Lalla’s 1st Complete Look Revealed; Nearly 100 Chartered Jets To Land In Ayodhya. They’ll Park At 12 airports in four states within a 1,000-km radius after dropping the passengers; CJI, Former CJIs, SC Judges Behind 2019 Ayodhya Verdict Get Invites
- Delhi’s Winter Peak Power Demand Reaches All-Time High Of 5,798 MW; Oil PSUs achieve 84% of capex target in first 9 months of FY24; State-run oil Cos surge ahead with Rs 89,000Cr capital spending
- Living in a ₹ 4,078Cr presidential palace (size of 3 Pentagons), the Al Nahyan royal family of Dubai is the richest in the world and owns 700 Cars, eight private jets, Manchester City football club, holds stakes in singer Rihanna’s beauty brand Fenty and Elon Musk’s Space X
- North Korea tested an “underwater nuclear weapon system” in response to joint naval exercises by Washington, Seoul and Tokyo, which involved a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
- Japan’s Moon Lander Has Landed, But Solar Cells ‘Not Generating Power’; An all-European crew including Turkey’s first astronaut are set to launch for ISS with Axiom Space, as countries increasingly look to private sector to fulfill their final frontier ambitions
- “Threatened, Insecure”: Nikki Haley Hits Back At Trump For “Birther” Claim; US Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Condemns Trump; Trump Demands Criminal Immunty Even If His Actions “Cross The Line; ‘Critical Failures’: US Justice Dept Criticises Texas Officials for Slow Response to Uvalde School Shooting
- Pak, Iran Set to ‘De-escalate’ After Trading Airstrikes, Likely to Restore Diplomatic Ties after intervention of China, Saudi Arabia and UAE
- Russia-Linked Hackers Midnight Blizzard Breached Email Accounts of Top Microsoft Execs; Ukrainian Drone Sets Oil Depot On Fire In Russia’s Bryansk
- Today’s Word – Bandelet – Small flat moulding around a column
