NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 2 April – 5 Mins read
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- Intense Heatwaves to Scorch India This Summer; Worst-hit May be Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka
- Rajasthan: 8-year-old Dalit Boy Beaten Up Within School Premises For Touching Water Bucket kept near a handpump
- RBI: 97.69% Of ₹ 2000 Currency Notes Returned To Banking System; only ₹ 8,202 crore worth of the withdrawn notes are still with the public
- Subedar Thanseia, a distinguished World War II veteran of the Indian Army, whose actions at the crucial Battle of Kohima against formidable odds, contributed to a pivotal victory for the Allied forces, has died at the age of 102
- 20 Indian Crew Members Still Trapped On Ship A Week After US Bridge Collapse; they are healthy; been in touch with the personnel
- GST Collections Hit ₹ 1.78 Lakh Crore In March, Second Highest Ever buoyed by domestic transactions; Gross GST collection for Apr-Mar 2024 stood at ₹ 20.14 lakh crore, 11.7% higher than the mop-up in the preceding fiscal
- He Is Abusing Us’: Woman Films 3 Men Chasing Her Car, Banging On Windows In Bengaluru Road Rage; Responding to the incident, South East Police DCP CK Baba said that three accused were arrested and an FIR had been registered
- Let’s Properly Handle Differences’: Beijing On 74th Anniversary Of India-China Diplomatic Ties; stressed the importance of implementing vital consensus and effectively managing the differences between the two neighbours
- Passengers Slam Vistara Over Multiple Flight Delays and Cancellations, Carrier Blames Operation Reasons – pilot shortages; Railways records highest ever loading in fiscal 2023-24; Mahindra Aerostructures signs $100 mn contract with Airbus Atlantic; AAI to post highest ever profit of Rs 5,000 cr in 2023-24
- Tata Power Renewable Energy commissions 200 MW solar project in Bikaner; Govt pushing ACC battery storage scheme, budget hiked 6x in last few years; Waaree Energies secures 220 MW solar module supply order from Sprng Energy
- Alembic Pharma gets tentative USFDA nod for breast cancer drug; Aurobindo Pharma commissions four plants in Andhra Pradesh including Pen-G facility
- March Sales: Maruti Suzuki India total sales rise 10 pc at 1,87,196 units; Tata Motors total domestic sales rise to 90,822 units; Hyundai sales up 7%; reports highest-ever sales at 7,77,876 units in FY ’24; MG Motor India sales decline 23%
- Power plants end 2023-24 with 50.7 million tonnes of coal stock; India’s power consumption rises 1.4 pc to 129.89 billion units in March; India hydropower output records steepest fall in nearly four decades
- Premier Probe Agencies “Spread Too Thin”, Cautions Chief Justice DY Chandrachud; The solution – digitising the investigation process that can begin from the filing of a FIR; Given the huge number of cases, tech needs to be leveraged to reduce delays
- Supreme Court Allows Ongoing ASI Survey Of Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque Complex; SC Refuses To Halt Prayers At Vyas Tehkhana
- You’re The Boss, You’re To Blame’: Israelis Take Out Largest March Against Netanyahu Since Oct 7 Attacks; Israeli Strikes In Damascus Kill 8 In Iran Embassy Annex; Gaza’s Al-Shifa Devastated In Israeli Op, 600 IDF Soldiers Killed, Hamas Chief’s Sister Arrested; Palestinians Starve As Hamas And Israel Battle For Control Of Gaza
- Poll Shows UK Labour Will End 14-Year-Rule Of Rishi Sunak’s Tories In Upcoming Elections; UK PM Rishi Sunak’s seat in North Yorkshire is also hanging in the balance
- Europe Should See Opportunity, Not Risk” China Tells France Amid Talks On Trade, Russia-Ukraine War; Russia Must “Withdraw troops For Ukraine Peace” Soviet Pistol Message In Defector Pilot’s Killing?
- Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, 6 months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine
- UK Woman Gives Birth To Twins 22 Days Apart: “I Couldn’t Believe”; Doctors were baffled by the gap and Kayleigh Doyle hasn’t found “another woman” who has a bigger gap
- The mysterious so-called Havana Syndrome symptoms experienced by US diplomats in recent years have been linked to a Russian intelligence unit
- IPL 2024: Rajasthan Royals’ Boult, Parag make the ducks quack in Mumbai Indians: RR win by 6 wickets, claim top spot, MI stare at 3rd defeat
- Today’s Word – Wase – Small bundle of hay or straw for resting one’s head
