NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 27 February- 5 Mins read
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- If You Can’t, We Will – SC ultimatum to Govt on the issue of granting permanent commission to women Coast Guard officers; earlier questioned the “patriarchal” mindset
- Malem Thongam – Manipur’s Transgender Activist On Hunger Strike In Delhi, Seeks End To Ethnic Violence, taken to a hospital after her health condition deteriorated
- Tripura Govt suspended IFS officer Pravin L Agrawal following the row over naming a lion and lioness ‘Akbar’ and ‘Sita’, on which a case was filed by VHP
- Farmer denied entry in Bengaluru metro over his dirty clothes: ‘Blatant discrimination; Security Supervisor Who Denied Entry sacked
- Paytm is likely to partner with Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, State Bank of India and Yes Bank for processing transactions via UPI; Vijay Shekhar Sharma resigns as chairman of Paytm Payments Bank; board reconstituted
- Making caller ID display optional to protect subscriber privacy: Experts; Ericsson deploys 1 lakh 5G radios for Bharti Airtel; BSNL mulls network upgrade, rationalisation of staff costs to compete with private players
- Coal sector contributes over Rs 70,000 cr every year to Centre, states: Govt; IOC scraps maiden green hydrogen tender after bidders cry foul, move court; RIL plans to spend Rs 5,000Cr on Compressed Biogas Plants (CBG); NTPC crosses 100 MT coal production mark from captive mines
- Farmers Take Out Tractor Rallies, Burn Effigies Representing WTO; demanding the agri sector be taken out of WTO agreement
- Free Palestine”: US Airman Dies After Setting Himself On Fire Over Gaza; Palestine PM Resigns Over Gaza Aggression; Israels Blockade Deepens Gazas Hunger Crisis; Israel’s Rafah Invasion Would Put “Final Nail In Coffin” Of Aid Ops, Warns UN Chief
- Indian-Origin Writer Nitasha Kaul Deported Over “Anti-India” pro-separatist sentiments -Views; “All Lies,” She Says
- Indian Philanthropist Firoz Merchant Donates Rs 2.25Cr To Free 900 Prisoners In UAE; gets their debt paid and donates funds for their air tickets to fly back to their home country
- 13 Years After Hiroshima, US Lost 3 Nukes, One 70 Times Stronger; experts have said that the risk of them causing a nuclear explosion is thought to be low
- Maryam Nawaz – Nawaz Sharif’s Daughter Becomes First Woman CM Of Pak’s Punjab Province; Pak Woman Mobbed After Crowd Mistakes Arabic Text On Kurta As Quran Verses
- Indian-American Engineer Ashok Veeraraghavan Honoured With Texas’ Highest Academic Award; recognising his group’s “revolutionary imaging technology that seeks to make the invisible visible
- Japan’s First Moon Lander Survives a Second Weekslong Lunar Night, Beating Predictions; Japan called the signal a ‘miracle’ because probe was not designed to survive lunar night, when temp can fall to minus 170 deg Cel
- In Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh, School Students Develop Organic Fertilisers Using Domestic Waste from their homes
- Two Men From Kashmir End Up as Mercenaries for Russia in War Against Ukraine, Families Cry for Help; Kashmiri Activist, Who Gave ‘I’m Not Malala’ Speech In UK Parliament, Alleges Harassment At Delhi Airport; Customs Reacts
- Borewells Dry Up, Tanker Prices Soar: East Bengaluru Residents Grapple with Water Crisis as Summer Nears
- 71% consumers take vitamin, mineral, fiber, omega, herbs or other nutraceutical tablets on a regular basis, a LocalCircles survey has found.; 7 in 10 Take Nutraceuticals; Majority Without Doctor’s Prescription
- Taliban Free Austrian National, 84, Held in Afghanistan; Qatar Helps Secure Their Release; Taliban Hold Another Public Execution at a Stadium, Third Death Sentence in Five Days, Thousands Attend
- South Korea Warns Young Doctors May Have Licenses Suspended If They’re Not Back At Work by Thursday
- UK PM Rishi Sunak Criticises Lawmaker’s Attack on London’s Mayor, Denies His Party is ‘Anti-Muslim’
- Shooting National Trials: Aishwary Tomar Breaks World Record to Win Men’s 50m Rifle 3P Event; Italian Junior Singles: India’s Raksha Kandasamy Bags Title With Win Over Ananya Agrawal
- Today’s Word – Nabob – very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
