NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 19 March – 5 Mins read
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- Serious Joke: Several political parties declined to share details of electoral bond donors citing various legal provisions, while others said they received the funding instruments through “drop box” or by post without any name
- Chief Justice’s ‘Don’t Shout At Me’ Retort, said This is not a Hyde Park corner meeting during Poll Bonds Hearing; Mr Nedumpara, who wanted to intervene in the matter, said the electoral bonds case “was not a justiciable issue at all; SC also refused to hear arguments by Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi
- CJI refused SC Bar Association president Adish Aggarwala arguments – said you have written a letter invoking my suo motu powers. These are all publicity-related stuff, we will not get into this. Do not make me say anything more. It will be distasteful; SG dissociated from Aggarwala’s request. “We don’t support this
- Our Shoulders Broad Enough: SC on Social Media Commentary After Electoral Bonds Order
- Land Grabbers in Andhra Pradesh Forge Documents, Claim Deceased Owner’s ‘Soul’ Transferred Property
- Election Commission Removes Home Secretaries Of 6 States, Bengal Top Cop; SC Refuses To Stay Order Disqualifying Himachal Congress Rebel MLAs
- An analysis of temperature data since 1970 shows that winters are quickly transitioning to summer-like conditions in north India, shortening the spring season
- 5 Held So Far for Attack on Foreign Students of Gujarat University; Hostel Security to Be Stepped Up
- Brave Action’: Bulgarian President Expresses Gratitude For Indian Navy’s Successful Rescue Ops: US Defence Secretary Austin Appreciates Indian Navy’s Role
- Tata Sons Plans To Offload 23.4 Million Shares In TCS To Raise $1.1BN; NexGen Energia to invest Rs 1,000 cr for setting up EV manufacturing unit in J&K; Venus Remedies gets marketing authorisations for three cancer drugs from Ukraine
- Govt may slap recovery suit on 3 companies to get back FAME subsidy; BMW and other German automakers express fear over new EV policy favoring new entrants
- IL&FS moves NCLAT, seeks protection for group companies from wilful defaulter tag; Insurance sector attracted Rs 54,000Cr FDI in last 9 years
- SC rejects Adani Power’s plea to recover Rs 1,376 crore from Rajasthan discom; Russian oil exports from its western ports revised up 10% in March amid refinery outage
- Flying to Southeast Asia gets easier with more flights, easy visa rules; Air India Express to operate non-stop flights to Kochi, Imphal from Kolkata in April
- “Kim Has Nothing To Lose” South Korea Slams North’s Missile “Provocation” As Blinken Visits Seoul; South Korean Defense Chief Says North Korea Has Supplied 7,000 Containers of Munitions to Russia
- Biden signs executive order on advancing study of women’s health while chiding ‘backward’ GOP ideas
- Chief Of UN Agency For Palestinians Refugees Stopped From Entering Gaza; Battle Rages Around Gaza’s Largest Hospital In Israel-Hamas War; Israel Conducts Pre-Dawn Raid In Gaza’s Largest Hospital Ahead of Mossad Chief, Qatar PM Meet
- Russia Hails ‘Record’ Win For Putin In Vote With No Opposition; To Become Longest-Serving Russian Leader Since Empress Catherine ‘The Great’; Warns Of WW 3 In First Comment After Landslide Win; Indians Forced To Fight Russia’s War Put Out Video: ‘Get Us Out Of Here
- Scientists have found a new way in which Ebola reproduces in the human body, identifying a potential target for drugs to prevent the viral disease – interaction for VP35, a multifunctional viral protein which plays a central role in viral replication
- Zimbabwe Goes Hungry As Crops Wither Amid El Nino Drought; Residents stood in groups at a primary school waiting to be called by name to receive life-saving handouts of grain, peas and cooking oil
- Stickers Asking Tourists To ”Go Home” Spotted On Buildings In Spain’s Malaga – featured phrases including ”stinks of tourists”, ”a family used to live here” and ”before this was my house
- Girl, 3, Diagnosed With Rare Condition, Can’t Stop Eating Plaster, Foam, Wool; Wynter became non-verbal and her unusual eating habits began to escalate when she was 13 months old, prompting her mother to reach out to doctors
- Today’s Word – Ickle – A child’s word for little
