NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 22 February- 5 Mins read
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- Farmers Say Won’t March To Delhi For 2 Days, 1 Dies During Protest; Haryana Cop Deployed At Border Dies After Health Worsens; Farmer Leader Rakesh Tikait’s “Won’t Let Them Enter Villages” Warning To Politicians; Massive Traffic Jams At Delhi Borders Amid Farmers’ ‘Dilli Chalo’ Agitation; Delhi’s Border Areas Fortified On Both Sides
- ISRO successfully completed a major milestone in the human rating of its CE20 cryogenic engine which powers the cryogenic stage of the human-rate LVM3 launch vehicle for its Gaganyaan missions
- India and China held a fresh round of high-level military talks to resolve the over 3.5yr old border row in eastern Ladakh; both sides agreeing to maintain “peace and tranquillity; no indication of breakthrough
- Union Cabinet approved an 8% hike in Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane from Rs 315 per quintal to Rs 340 per quintal. Gives boost to women safety, space sector and National Livestock Mission
- Patriarchal, Constitutionally Impermissible’: SC Rules In Favour Of Dismissed Army Nurse, Asks Centre To Pay 60L In Dues
- ‘Don’t Lecture Us’: BJP After Bengal Police Vows To Take Action In ‘Khalistani’ Slur Row; refuses the use of the word Khalistani
- Strength in Numbers: MHA Orders Creation of Over 20,000 Reserve Deputation Posts for CAPF, Assam Rifles
- Nothing Illegal’: Madras HC Allows Hunger Strike by Lawyer Demanding Tamil as Official Court Language; asked to give an undertaking that he would not initiate violence while organising meetings
- Capital goods and fertilisers are most impacted by the Red Sea crisis: CRISIL; DMRC unveils new OCC, entire network now to be controlled in integrated manner from HQ; HFCL announces optical fibre cable plant in Poland at initial outlay of up to Rs 144Cr
- Credit Fair secures a license for peer to peer lending from RBI; India set to standardise ‘know your customer’ banking checks; India replaces China as third largest profitable region for HSBC; In-depth report reveals the nature, modus operandi, emerging hotspots of digital banking frauds in India
- Singapore Airlines engineering arm to provide component service for Air India A320 planes; DMRC unveils new OCC, entire network now to be controlled in integrated manner from HQ; Air India signs component program with SIA Engineering for A320 family aircraft
- Kilburn Engineering acquires M E Energy to strengthen thermal portfolio; Torrent Power, Lanco emerge as lowest bidders in gas-fired power auction
- China Says US Veto In UN Truce Vote Makes Gaza “Even More Dangerous; As Rafah Braces For Israeli Assault, Biden Calls For “Ceasefire”; Israeli Missiles Hit Residential Building In Syria’s Capital; US Lawmakers Hope For Humanitarian Pause in Gaza Ahead Of Ramadan
- Ukraine Running Out Of Soldiers, Ammunition To Fight Russian Invasion; “I Appeal To You, Putin”: Alexei Navalny’s Mother Says Not Allowed To See His Body; “Form Of Navalny”: Trump Compares His Legal Troubles To Putin Critic
- 26-Foot-Long Anaconda Discovered In Amazon Rainforest Is The World’s Biggest Snake; The species was found during filming for National Geographics Disney+ series ‘Pole to Pole’ with Will Smith
- Turkey’s KAAN, its first national combat aircraft, completed its first flight; will initially be powered by two General Electric F-110 engines, which are also used on fourth-generation Lockheed Martin F-16 jets
- United Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Passenger Spots Damaged Wing coming apart on the plane; American Airlines Passengers Duct-Tape Man Who Tried To Open Plane Door Mid-Air
- Cash-strapped Sri Lanka it had exported tea worth $20 million to Iran to partially repay its $251 million oil debts
- European Food Watchdog Lodges Complaint Over Nestle Mineral Water “Fraud”; 30% of mineral water sold in France had undergone purification treatment only meant to be used on tap water
- 28-Year-Old Man In China Wins $96MN Lottery, Largest In Country’s History; The man’s lottery win of $96MN exceeded China’s previous record of $80MN, won by a man living in Beijing in 2012
- UK: Alexandra Vlad used GPS tracking technology to recover her stolen Lexus UX, shedding light on its potential and the necessity for police protocol reevaluation in handling vehicle theft cases
- Today’s Word – Icterine – Yellowish or marked with yellow
