NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 20 Jun – 5 Mins read
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- State Official at Secretary level Held ‘Hostage’ By Angry Priests, Locals At Kedarnath Dham amid protests over the demolition of buildings owned by local priests
- Integrity May Have Been Compromised’: Govt Cancels UGC-NET Exam 2024, Orders CBI Probe; Govt Seeks Report from Bihar Cops’ Economic Offences Wing regarding alleged irregularities in conduct of NEET
- Assam Woman Jumps From Moving Train, Chases Down Thief Running Away With Her Bag; On May 30, Pranati Das was returning to Dibrugarh from Guwahati for the treatment of her husband
- Union Govt Approves MSP For 14 Crops, Says It Is 1.5 Times Cost Of Production; MSP of paddy has been increased by ₹ 117
- Global Fossil Fuel Use, Emissions Hit All-Time Highs In 2023; Fossil fuel accounted for almost all demand growth in India in 2023, while in China fossil fuel use rose 6% to a new high
- Independent Civil Society Group Delhi Meitei Forum To Distribute School Bags In Manipur Relief Camps; Assam Rifles Refutes Maring Tribe Body’s Allegations On Illegal Immigrants In Manipur
- No AC Amid Heatwave, SpiceJet (Delhi to Darbhanga) Passengers Wait Inside Flight For An Hour; Amid Heat Wave, Delhi’s Peak Power Demand Reaches All-Time High Of 8,647 MW; Doctors Witness Surge In ‘Lupus’ Cases In North India Due To Heat Waves; Asks Govt Hospitals to Prioritise Heat Stroke Cases
- Rain Triggers Landslides, Flood-Like Situation In Several Districts In Arunachal; Assam Flood Situation Worsens, 3 Lakh People Affected; Karimganj Worst-Hit; 16 Dead, Over 70 Hospitalised After Consuming Spurious Liquor In TN’s Kallakurichi
- First Arrest In Reasi Terror Attack, Man Suspected Of Providing Logistics To Terrorists Held; Indian Consulate General in Vancouver to Organise Memorial Service For 1985 Kanishka Bombing Victims
- After Human Finger, Centipede In Ice Cream And Snake In Food, Dead Frog Found In Wafer Packet In Gujarat; Bengaluru Couple Receives Live Cobra Instead Of Xbox Controller Ordered From Amazon; Man, 24, Trying To Board Canada Flight As Senior Citizen With Dyed Hair, Beard Held At Delhi Airport
- UN says Israel May Have Violated Laws of War in Gaza; Israel Army Says Hamas Can’t Be Defeated ‘As An Ideology
- RBI cancels licence of Mumbai-based The City Co-operative Bank; RBI invites applications for recognition of SROs for NBFCs; Axis Bank entities to up stake in Max Life Insurance at Rs 336Cr; EESL joins hands with APEPDCL to promote energy efficiency, conservation
- Nine Indian ports ranked among top 100 in Container Port Performance Index 2023; Blue Dart launches drone deliveries in collaboration with Skye Air; Cabinet approves 2,869Cr for development of Varanasi airport; Power units’ imported coal blending may be cut to 4%
- India’s Jewellery Retail Sector Surges By $30BN In 6 Years; RBI Sold Net $3.6BN In Spot Forex Market In April; Cabinet Approves Rs 7,453-cr VGF Scheme For Offshore Wind Energy Projects; Jio outpaces Airtel in 4G/5G user additions during Apr; Bharti Airtel buys extra 1% in Indus, boosts stake to Rs 48.95%
- Putin, Kim Jong Un Take Turns To Drive Each Other In Russian-Made Limousine; both agree To Come To Each Other’s Aid If Attacked; Russia, North Korea Pact Shows Mutual Support By Authoritarian Powers; Putin Arrives In Vietnam
- Families Search for Missing as Hajj Pilgrims Death Count Rises Over 900 68 Indians Among them fearing the worst after temperatures hit 51.8 Deg Cel
- Obesity in 10- and 11-year-olds in England has risen 30% since 2006, part of a far-reaching decline in children’s health
- 3 Indians, 4 Egyptians Detained in Connection with Massive Kuwait Fire That Killed 50 People; charged with manslaughter and negligence
- Exposure to air pollution contributed to the deaths of 8.1MN people – around 12% of all fatalities — in 2021; Linked To Nearly 2,000 Child Deaths A Day
- Horror Film’: Indian Farm Worker With Severed Arm Dies After Being Abandoned on Roadside in Rural Italy; he did not have legal papers, was cutting hay at a farm in Latina when his arm was sliced off by a machine
- Today’s Word – Quaesitum – Something sought for; the true value
