NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 6 February- 5 Mins read
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- Murder Of Democracy’: SC Says Returning Officer Of Chandigarh Mayor Polls Defaced Ballot Papers; We are appalled. This man should be prosecuted fumed CJI SC
- British head-of-state King Charles III, who underwent a procedure for an enlarged prostate recently, has been diagnosed with cancer
- Russian Astronaut Oleg Kononenko Sets World Record For Most Time Spent In Space; He spent over 878 days and 12 hours outside the Earth’s atmosphere
- Famous for 100 km Daily Rides, Fitness Enthusiast and Cyclist Anil Kadsur Dies of Heart Attack at 45; He was hospitalized due to a feeling of uneasiness on the very day he shared his achievement of completing 42 months of 100 km rides on social media
- India Claim Vizag Test by 106 Runs to Level Series as England Crash and Burn Chasing 399; Bumrah provided the much-needed impetus with a match-turning spell of 6/45 in 1st innings; now at 2nd in WTC
- Mumbai Comedian Kashyap Swaroop’s Plea for Assistance Goes Viral as Ex-landlord Withholds Deposit, Police Help to get back deposit
- Over 9,300 Cr UPI Transactions in 2023-24, Other Countries Join India’s Digital Payment Boom; 386 such transactions were conducted in foreign countries in 2022; Paytm denies reports of investigation or violation of forex rules by co or Payments Bank
- A week after the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) razed a 600-year-old mosque in Sanjay Van in south Delhi’s Mehrauli, locals demanded DDA rebuild another mosque at the same site
- Amidst Diplomatic Row, China Displaces India as Largest Tourism Market for Maldives; China, with 23,972 tourists occupied No 1 slot (11.2% market share in 2024); at No 3 in 2023
- Scientists declared the Hindu Kush Himalaya region a biosphere on the brink of collapse and called for bold action and urgent finance to prevent nature loss
- Gyanvapi Mosque Case: Hindu Side Files Fresh Plea Demanding Survey Of Other Basements In Premises
- HC directs SpiceJet to pay Rs 50Cr to former promoter Kalanithi Maran, KAL Airways in six weeks; Of 14 rail projects taken up to boost coal evacuation, 5 have been commissioned
- Zee-Sony Row: Sony ‘disappointed’ after SIAC allows Zee to approach India tribunal over merger dispute
- Hyundai plans to drive to Dalal Street for largest IPO ever: Plans listing of local arm this Diwali; Adani Total Gas and INOXCVA collaborate to strengthen LNG ecosystem in India; Russian oil facilities hit by drone attacks, fires; IOC, BPCL, HPCL post Rs 69k cr net profit in Apr-Dec, higher than pre-oil crisis annual earnings
- Antony Blinken Starts Middle East Tour To Press For Gaza Truce; UN Security Council To Meet On US Strikes In Iraq & Syria; UN Aid Truck Hit By “Israeli Fire” | France Fears 2006 War Repeat, Offers To Mediate With Hezbollah; Iran Flaunts ‘Floating Armories’ In Red Sea, Warns US Against Strikes On Behshad and Saviz Ships
- Germany Doubles Its Commitment of Troops to the NATO-led Peacekeepers in Kosovo; “Ukraine Plot to Smuggle 14 Kg C-4 to Russia”, Zelensky’s Reset Call, Top General’s Axing Imminent?; “Don’t be Stupid”: Trump Urges Republicans To Reject Ukraine Aid Bill
- Humans To Find ‘Alien Ruins’ Soon, Says Ex-US Army Pilot Who Claims He Spent 3 Months On A UFO; claims he “spoke to two aliens in the 1980s”
- Boeing Identifies New Problems With Fuselage Of Flagship 737 Aircraft model which, while not posing an immediate in-flight danger, will require “rework” on dozens of planes
- Imran Khan Found to be Mastermind of May 9 Attack, Army Courts Ready With Verdict; Former Three-Time Pak PM Nawaz Shariff Seeks 4th Term In 2024 Elections
- Heavy Snow Hits Tokyo Area, Halting Trains and Grounding More Than 100 Flights; 21 inches predicted in mountainous areas north of Tokyo
- Singapore enacts law allowing indefinite detention of ‘dangerous’ offenders – The legislation will apply to offenders convicted of serious violent or sexual offences, such as culpable homicide, rape and sex with minors
- Today’s Word – Salsipotent – Ruling the salt seas
