Daily Curated News –306

March 15, 2024 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 15 March – 5 Mins read
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  1. Electoral Bonds Data From SBI Uploaded On ECI Website; Top 10 Donors To Political Parties contributed 4500Cr; SC To Hear EC’s Plea Seeking Modification Of March 11 Order today; top receivers – BJP – 46 %; TMC – 13 %; INC – 11 %; BRS – 9 %; BJD – 6%
  2. Unanimous Opinion, Need Simultaneous Polls – Under ‘One Nation, One Election’, Fresh Polls In Case Of Hung Parliament, Assembly – consulted 39 political parties, economists & ECI; , Shorter Term for State Govts Elected After 2024
  3. Rajasthan Man Balkishan Rasganiya Returns Bag With ₹ 10 Lakh He Found Near ATM, Gets Certificate From Police; The bank tracked down the man who owned the bag and his money was returned to him
  4. Ex-Bureaucrats 1988 batch Gyanesh Kumar (Kerala), Sukhbir Singh Sandhu (Uttrakhand) Appointed Election Commissioners – One a Harvard Postgrad Who Worked on Article 370 Move & Another a Doctor Who Oversaw Uttarakhand UCC Draft
  5. Mamata Banerjee Injured After Fall At Home, Receives Stitches On Forehead; later discharged from the hospital
  6. Aunts In China Donate Skin, Shave Heads To Save Badly Injured Niece, Nephew; The boy and the girl remained in coma for five days, suffered severe injuries, including respiratory burn, carbon monoxide poisoning and organ failure
  7. Study finds AI tech can accurately identify cases of health care-associated infections (HAI) even in complex clinical scenarios
  8. Vehicle Thefts In India Saw 2.5 Times Spike In 2023. Delhi Tops The Chart with theft every 14 minutes resulting in 105 cases each day in 2023
  9. Remarkable…”: Life Expectancy Rises By 9.1 Years Since 1990; progress in reducing gender inequality”, flagging a Gender Inequality Index of 0.437, better than global average
  10. Army Major, Soldiers Injured in Punjab Dhaba Brawl Over Food Bill; argument started when the owner allegedly declined payment through UPI, insisting on cash to avoid taxes; owner arrested
  11. After 663 days Petrol, Diesel Prices Cut By ₹ 2 Across India Ahead of LS Polls Schedule Announcement; Peak power demand up to 220 GW as temperatures rise; Kalpataru Projects International, arms bag orders worth Rs 2,445Cr
  12. IBM Layoffs: In 7-Minute Meeting, Tech Giant Announces Job Cuts From Two Divisions; Unicorns to add $1 trn to economy by 2030, generate 50 mn jobs: CII study
  13. Hyundai and Kia to recall nearly 170,000 EVs over software problem in South Korea; 4 states Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat & Karnataka account for over half of India’s renewable potential
  14. Paytm Gets Third-Party App Licence From Payments Authority; Indian banks halt silver imports as duty differential spurs private trade
  15. Delay of Up to 2 Hours at Mumbai Airport Due to Faulty Air Traffic Radar Automation System; faced more than 70 problems in June 2022
  16. TRAI: if a SIM card has been swapped or replaced, the mobile number associated with it won’t be allowed to be ported out to a different telco for a period of seven days
  17. Healthtech firm HiLabs raises $39 million from Eight Roads Ventures, others; Eris Lifesciences acquires Biocon Biologics domestic branded formulation business for Rs 1,242Cr
  18. Britain unveiled a new definition of extremism to counter a surge in hate crimes, raising some concerns it would inhibit free speech and unfairly target Muslim groups; UK Plans Ban On Foreign Govt Ownership Of British Media
  19. Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket, flew further and faster than ever before during its third test flight, although it was eventually lost as it re-entered the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean
  20. Israeli Fire Kills 6 Palestinians Awaiting Aid Trucks; US Senate Leader Slams Netanyahu On Gaza Death Toll, IDF Summons General For Rebuking Politicians; Spain, Egypt FMs Call for Palestinian State, More Aid to Gaza
  21. Will Be Far Superior”: Australian Billionaire Unveils New Plans For ‘Titanic II’ To Sail In 2027; RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner, collided with a massive iceberg and sank in less than three hours on April 15, 1912
  22. Putin Didn’t Threaten To Use Nukes, US Took Him Out Of Context says Russia; UK Says Air Force Plane With Minister Onboard Had Signal Jammed Near Russia; Seven More Nepalese Citizens Serving Russian Army Killed; Toll Touches 19
  23. China Blasts “US Gangster Logic” Over Bill to “Ban” Tiktok, Trump Defends App Over “Enemy” Facebook

    Today’s Word – Eclipsareon – Astronomical toy used to show phenomena of solar and lunar eclipses