NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 5 April – 5 Mins read
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- Agni-Prime, India’s New Generation Ballistic Missile, Flight-Tested Successfully; development and induction of the missile will be an excellent force multiplier for the Armed Forces
- A computational science graduate Sourajit Debnath, 31, (Chandrayaan-2 Team Member) from Kolkata has answered a series of complex questions as part of his university’s team to make it to the last leg of what is among television’s “toughest” quiz tournaments in the UK
- Taiwan: Brave Nurses Protect Newborn Babies in Hospital During Earthquake; Rescuers Try to Reach Scores Trapped in Tunnels After Massive Quake Rattles Island
- RTI Reply: No ‘Shri’ To Be Prefixed Before Names Of Coast Guard, Defence Officers; only ranks have to be used before names; 7,575 trees have been felled on 16-km-long section of the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway and over 1.76 lakh are to be planted in compensation for it
- Musk’s X Introduces “Community Notes” Feature In India; enables users to participate in fact-checking tweets shared by other users and intermediaries on the platform
- Sonia Gandhi, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Among 14 Sworn In As Rajya Sabha MPs; “Let Democracy Take Its Course”: Plea To Remove Arvind Kejriwal Rejected by Delhi HC; Sivakasi’s Printing Industry Powers Election Campaigns As Parties Rush For Flags And Badges
- Salary hike in senior level job roles is expected to be avg of 20%, as nurturing talent and fostering innovation remains a key focus area for companies amid the country’s buoyant economic conditions
- Lancet: The number of new prostate cancer cases around the world will more than double over the next two decades as poorer countries catch up with the ageing of richer nations
- /India Plans to Control Its Entire Airspace from Nagpur, Big Move to Unify All 4 Flight Information Regions; ‘Tired From Flying’: Vistara Pilots Cite Exhaustion Issues Amid Airline’s Hope Of Restoring Normal Operations_
- MoRTH Takes ‘E-Way’: To Go ‘Paperless’, Ministry Issues SOP for Digital Submission, Approval of Projects; Sensex At Lifetime High, Nifty Hits Record High As HDFC, TCS Stocks Surge; Bandhan Bank’s advances rise 17.8 pc
- Hero MotoCorp Gets Demand Notice Of ₹ 605 Cr From Tax Body; Maruti Suzuki April offers: Discounts up to Rs 1.5 lakh available on Baleno, Fronx, Jimny, and other Nexa models; Telangana Govt in talks with Tesla to set up electric car plant
- Securitisation volume growth slows to 4 pc in FY24 on HDFC merge; HDFC Bank’s Q4 deposits up 7.5%, Macquarie report says ‘fantastic outcome’; NCLAT directs NHAI not to terminate concession agreement of IL&FS group entity
- GE Aerospace to invest Rs 240 cr to upgrade Pune manufacturing facility; SpiceJet restarts flights to Sikkim’s Pakyong airport from Kolkata, Delhi; Trai begins consultation for auction of 4,000 Mhz spectrum in new bands
- Canada Hikes Permanent Residency Fees By 12%; For the past two decades, Canada welcoming over 200,000 new permanent residents each year, a substantial amount of whom are of Indian descent
- Born To Help: Every evening during Ramadan, members of a motorbike club zip down the streets of Damascus to deliver meals to those in need; US Muslims Angry Over Biden’s Support to Israel, Turns Down White House’s Iftar Dinner Invite – asks “How can we talk to you about famine and starvation over bread and steak?
- A woman in Trinidad has been diagnosed with a rare condition – NF1 neurofibromatosis – causing painful bubble-like tumours all over her body; face is completely covered by these tumours, and her right leg with three giant growths
- Ten Years After MH370, Malaysia Air Seeks to Shed Troubled Past; CEO Izham Ismail wants to write a new chapter – shedding troubled past, transforming it into a well-run, consistently profitable airline
- Mexico’s Likely Next President is a Scientist. Politics Has Her Mostly Quiet on Climate Threats; Claudia Sheinbaum is an environmental scientist, co-author of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report
- IPL 2024: GT’s 200 was not enough to show chasing power of PBKS. Won by 3 wickets in last but one ball
- Today’s Word – Zelophobia – Irrational or fear of jealousy
