NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 12 Jul – 5 Mins read
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- Captain Avhilash Rawat, his crew of an oil tanker named among winners of the International Maritime Organisation 2024 Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea for their “extraordinary courage” shown in a Red Sea rescue mission
- CBI has arrested a man called Rakesh Ranjan, alias Rocky, who is believed to be the kingpin in the NEET paper leak case
- UN World Population Prospects: World’s population will peak in mid-2080s, growing over next 60 years from 8.2BN people now to 10.3BN in mid-2080s, and will return to 10.2BN by the end of the century
- EvolutionaryScale – New York based AI research company that focuses on biotech generated a novel protein using Protein Language Model (ProLLMs) that works on similar transformer architecture as that of ChatGPT
- Govt Forms Panel To Probe Disability Claims Made By Trainee IAS Officer; Non-Creamy Layer – ₹ 22Cr Assets – owns five plots of land and two apartments across Maharashtra; facing serious charges of impropriety & abuse of power
- Captain Anshuman Singh’s Parents Question “Next Of Kin” Rule, Demand Its Revision; In Law left their home and now receives most of the entitlements after their son’s death
- Gujarat: Railing Collapses As 1,800 Aspirants Turn Up For 10 Jobs; gathered, jostling to make their way inside the venue; crowd so dense that it pushed against a steel railing hard enough to make it give way, taking several people down with it
- 10% Quota, Age Relaxations For Ex-Agniveers, Say CISF, BSF Chiefs; 1st batch will get 5 years of relaxation while it will be 3 years afterwards; no physical efficiency test
- In A First, Judge From Manipur Recommended For Elevation To SC; Collegium recommends CJ of JK & Ladakh HC Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh, Acting CJ of Madras HC Mahadevan
- A SpiceJet employee was arrested after she slapped a male assistant sub inspector following an altercation over security screening at Jaipur Airport; SpiceJet alleged female employee was “subjected to inappropriate and unacceptable language by the CISF personnel
- Northwest Delhi’s Bawana Area Flooded As Water Breaches Canal From Haryana; Scores of whales washed ashore in a “mass stranding” in Scotland’s Orkney archipelago
- Space Regulator Nod Must From Next Year To Use Non-Indian Satellites; EPFO recovers ₹61 crore dues from SpiceJet; NCLT directs Go First to release four aircraft engines of ELF; Air India rolls out advanced baggage tracking for passengers
- Greenko arm cancels dollar bond issue, to tap bank loans; IRDAI puts Care Health Insurance on notice over ESOPs to Saluja; Acer ties up with Indkal Technologies to enter Indian phone market
- Israel Releases First Probe Into Its Security Failures During Hamas Attack; “Things Moving In Good Direction”: US On Gaza Ceasefire Talks; Erdogan Says US Complicit in War Crimes As 500-lb Bombs Ship to Israel, Hezbollah Drones Attack IDF
- UP’s sops for hybrid vehicles irk EV companies, add to industry’s June sob story; US to award $1.7BN to retool auto plants for EVs; Hindustan Zinc gets power supply from Serentica 180 MW solar project; Jaguar Land Rover to use Pirelli’s natural rubber tyres in sustainability
- World’s Largest Stegosaurus Skeleton Put On Auction, May Fetch $4-6MN; Named Apex, the giant skeleton – 11ft tall & 27ft long is billed as most complete & best-preserved stegosaurus specimen of its size
- WHO: Covid-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world; urged at-risk populations to keep up with their vaccinations against the disease
- Indians Travelling To Qatar Will Soon Be Able To Make UPI Payments; Banking Sector Witnessing A Decade-High Performance; Raids At Cooperative Society, Sahara Group In ₹ 24,000Cr Fraud Case; Sale Of Homes, Priced ₹ 10 Cr & Above, Up 8% In Mumbai
- Russia Adds Putin Critic Alexei Navalny’s Wife To List Of “Terrorists”; US Foiled Russian Plot To Assassinate Ukraine’s German Arms Supplier; China, Belarus Hold Army Drills Near NATO Border Amid Rising Tensions; NATO Begins Sending F-16 Jets To Ukraine, Vows $43BN Military Aid
- Powerful Tremor Shakes Coal Mine In Poland: 10 Miners Injured, Search On For Dozens Of Others; shaken about 1,200 metres underground
- Today’s Word – Macon – Smoked salted mutton
