NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 17 March – 5 Mins read
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- SC Registry Gives Sealed Cover Electoral Bonds Data Back To Election Commission; asked to publish the data on its website by today; Megha Engineering, the company that spent over ₹1,200Cr on electoral bonds, began life as a small pipe-maker in Hyderabad; Directors of owner firms of Donor No. 3 Qwik Supply are Reliance executives
- LS Elections 2024: From April 19 In 7 Phases, Results On June 4; Every Booth To Have Water, Toilets, Wheelchair; Vote-From-Home Option For People Above 85; 48K Transgenders Eligible To Vote; Voting Period Of 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Longest Since 1st General Elections; Refrain from personal attack… let’s not cross lines in our rivalry says EC
- Assembly Elections In Andhra, Arunachal, Sikkim And Odisha From April 19; EC Repeats Its 2019 Reason For No Polls In J&K – Security Reasons; 12 States Have More Women Voters Than Men – Total India 96.8Cr voters – World’s Largest – Male 49.7Cr, Female 47.1Cr; People Living in Camps in Violence-hit Manipur Will Be Allowed to Vote from There
- ‘Dangers Your Platforms Pose…’: US Lawmaker Asks Social Media Firms About Poll Preparedness In India, Other Nations; India abstains in UNGA on Pak resolution on Islamophobia, says religiophobia against Hinduism, Sikhism must also be acknowledged
- IISc Study: Bengaluru’s Lakes Worth Rs 9,400Cr If Unpolluted; as the pollution increases in the lakes, their economic value declines considerably
- Deloitte India Talent Outlook 2024 – Companies are likely to provide substantial increments to junior management, although they may enforce stricter performance evaluations, making it more challenging to get top ratings
- Korakoppu Swarnalatha – Telangana School Principal Opts For Plantable Seed Paper Invitation For Daughter’s Wedding; boasts unique features like containing seeds of flower plants such as Tulsi, Marigold and Chrysanthemum
- A bank official named Ishwinder Singh Ranyal, arrested for allegedly swindling ₹ 1.26Cr from dormant accounts over the past three years in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi Dist
- World Consumer Rights Day: 53% Households Refused Replacement, Compensation for Defective Product in Warranty
- India’s first integrated Oil Palm Processing Unit by 3F Oil Palm starts commercial operations; Kerala-based startup, ‘chargeMOD’ to deploy 1,200 more EV chargers across India; CREDAI projects 7Cr additional housing demand by 2030; Sakra World Hospital to invest Rs 1,000 cr on second unit in Bengaluru
- India’s first underwater metro in Kolkata now open: Tunnel illuminated, 45 secs under river; hundreds of passengers erupting into jubilation on their first ride
- Netanyahu Approves Plan To Attack Rafah But Keeps Ceasefire Hopes Alive; First Aid Boat Unloads In Gaza As Hamas Proposes New 6-Week Truce In War; Hamas, Houthis Hold Rare Meet To Discuss Their Actions Against Israel; Biden Praises US Senate Leader’s Speech Calling For Fresh Israel Elections
- “Catastrophic”: UN Says 5 Million at Risk of Starvation in Sudan; appealed for Sudan’s battling factions to allow delivery of humanitarian relief; Fuel Tanker In Red Sea Attacked, 2 Explosions Reported
- Russian Strikes Kill 20, Injure Over 70 In “Vile” Ukraine Attack; “Most Secret In Russian History”: Independent Vote Monitor On Presidential Polls
- New research suggests Covid-19’s origin might be unnatural, potentially from a lab accident. A risk analysis tool was used to reach this conclusion
- Wales Elects Its First Black Leader Vaughan Gething; Heads Of Three Of UK’s Four Govts Non-White
- US: 11yr Old innocent child died while protecting his mother and his five-year-old brother from the ex-boyfriend of his mother who was released from prison a day earlier
- Terrorists Kill 7 Pakistan Army Soldiers With Explosives-Laden Vehicle, Suicide Bombers; Pakistan Urged to ‘Immediately Unblock Twitter/X’ By Rights Groups After Month-Long Blockade
- Today’s Word – Gallomania – Craze or obsession with France and the French
