NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 29 May – 5 Mins read
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- IIT Bombay, TCS To Develop India’s 1st Quantum Diamond Microchip Imager – an advanced sensing tool to test the quality of semiconductor chips
- Wipro, IISC’s Brain Research Centre To Boost AI-Based Health Innovations – focus on an individual’s health history, desired health state, and other behavioural responses
- Kota police tied up with Meta to identify students exhibiting suicidal tendencies on Facebook and Instagram, allowing for their timely intervention
- Rajkot Game Zone Fire: Special Probe Team Questions Over 25 People, Seizes Documents; Missing Game Zone Partner Confirmed Dead In fire
- Cyclone Remal: Manipur Schools To Remain Shut For 3 Days Due To Heavy Rains; 3 Dead, 17 Injured As Heavy Rain, Storms Pound Assam; Battered Bangladesh For 36 Hours, One Of The Longest Seen; High Humidity Is Causing Heat Stress In India’s 6 Major Cities
- 17 Dead, Several Missing As Stone Quarry Collapses In Mizoram Amid Heavy Rain Triggered By Cyclone Remal
- Poll Body Suspends Odisha Chief Minister’s Aide IPS Officer DS Kutey For “Interfering” In Elections; ordered medical examination of another police service officer Asish Singh, who is on leave
- Phase 2 Of Mumbai’s Mega Coastal Road To Open By June 10 says CM; Seepage In Mumbai’s Undersea Coastal Road Tunnel 2 Months After Opening; twin tunnels, have a diameter of 12.19 metres, run 17-20 m below sea level
- Pune Car Crash: Committee Conducting Inquiry into Blood Sample Manipulation Visits Sassoon Hospital; Court Sends Minor’s Father in Police Custody in Driver Kidnapping Case
- Kerala Prepares Special Action Calendar To Prevent Nipah Virus Outbreak; presence of Nipah virus antibodies had been detected in bats in Kozhikode, Wayanad, Idukki, Malappuram, and Ernakulam
- 145 UN Member States Now Recognise A Palestinian State; 21 Killed In Fresh Israeli Strike On Displacement Camp In West Rafah; Tanks Reach Rafah For First Time As Israel Presses Assault Despite Outrage; Rough Seas Damage US-Built Temporary Pier In Gaza, Aid Delivery Suspended; US to repair the Pier
- True Leader’: Indian UN Peacekeeper Major Radhika Sen Set To Win Major Gender Advocacy Accolade
- Reliance To Buy 3MN Barrels Of Russian Oil A Month In Roubles; Govt offers two discovered oil and gas fields, one coal bed methane block in special bidding round; Reliance-BP and Shell-MRPL jet fuel sales take wing in April
- Govt blacklists 8 principal entities in fresh strike down on SMS scammers; DoT take down over 1000 SMS content templates to protect citizens from potential fraud; Govt bodies and banks to use 160 and 161 numbering series for service calls
- Average air ticket prices spike 9 pc in Jan-March period; Jet Airways Insolvency: Tribunal junks JKC request to transfer Rs 200Cr
- ITC hotel demerger plan gets competition watchdog’s approval; KITES Senior Care and Columbia Pacific Communites set to merge for one of India’s largest senior living firms; Jewellery exports: DGFT puts on hold on changes in maximum permissible wastage norms for gold, platinum, & silver content
- Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months; Indian fertilizer industry on track to reach Rs 1.38 lakh cr by 2032 amidst robust growth and strategic innovations
- Maruti Suzuki hits milestone with 5,000th service touchpoint opening; FAME 3 likely to be rolled out soon with Rs 10,000 cr outlay, with support for hybrids but not e-cars; BYD launches new hybrid vehicle tech that promises 100 km with just 2.9 litres fuel
- Czech: Woman, Out On A Walk, Discovers 2,150 Silver Coins From Middle Ages; Historians started the process of putting these ancient coins through X-rays to determine what material they are made from
- Taiwan’s parliament passed a package of controversial bills to expand its power as thousands of disapproving protesters rallied outside and chanted “defend democracy
- Former Pak PM Nawaz Sharif admitted that Islamabad had “violated” an agreement with India signed by him and ex-prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999
- 11 Months After Titan Tragedy, US Billionaire To Take Sub To Titanic Site To Prove Journey Is Safe; Larry Connor designed a Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer, a $20MN vessel, which will carry out the voyage
- Papua New Guinea Bridge Collapses On Landslide Aid Route, Cuts Off Main Highway; describing unstable land conditions in areas of the rescue
- China Says It Used J20 “Mighty Dragon” For “Punishment” Drills; Prepping For US F-16 Viper Showdown
- Today’s Word – Washboard – Plank in ship’s gunwale to keep out sea water
