NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 1 Aug – 5 Mins read
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- ‘True Spirit Of Olympics’: North-South Korea Podium Selfie In Paris Wins Hearts, Raises Hopes Of Unity
- Army Forms Human Bridge To Rescue People From Landslide-Hit Wayanad; Death Count In Landslides Rises To 167, 191 Still Missing
- Air Canada Flight Cancelled After Passenger Requests Blanket, Sending Crew Member Into A Meltdown; lashed out; yelling at an unseen passenger, speaking in French and English
- Jharkhand Railway Accident: Tracks Restoration Work On, 7 Trains Cancelled; All the coaches and wagons have been removed from the tracks
- Changed Her Name, Also Parents’ Names”: UPSC On How Puja Khedkar Cheated; UPSC revoked Puja Khedkar’s selection as a Jr Govt officer and debarred her from UPSC exams
- Roads Flooded, Vehicles Stuck In Water Amid Heavy Rain In Delhi; 5 More Basements Of Coaching Institutes In Delhi Sealed As Crackdown Continues; Students Write To President, Seek Independent Probe; “Have They Lost It?” Delhi HC On Police Arresting SUV Driver; 10 Flights Diverted, Multiple Areas Waterlogged After Heavy Rain In Delhi; IMD Issues Red Alert
- Indian Students Win Laurels At 4 Academic Olympiads – The Indian team bagged one gold (Vedant Sakre of Mumbai) and three silvers (Ishan Pednekar of Ratnagiri; Shrijith Sivakumar of Chennai and Yashaswi Kumar of Bareilly
- Ransomware Attack On Service Provider Hits 300 Small Banks Across India; attack affected C-Edge Technologies, a provider of banking tech systems to small banks; Most of these only about 0.5% of the country’s payment system
- CSTEP Study: Mumbai May Lose Over 10% Land By 2040 Due To Rising Sea Level; could also submerge up to 5% of land in Kochi, Mangalore, Visakhapatnam, Udupi and Puri
- Strong Links With Myanmar Insurgents: NIA In Chargesheet Against Mizoram Arms Trafficker; Myanmar Military Extends Emergency Rule For Another 6 Months; MHA Posts On Website Order Revoking Ban On Govt Employees’ Participation In RSS Activities
- A five-year-old boy in Bihar reached his school with a gun and opened fire on another child, leaving the Class 3 student badly injured
- Polio Detected In Gaza, Says WHO Chief Calling For Preventative Measures; “We Are Afraid”: Israelis Fear For Hostages After Hamas Chief’s Killing; US Not Involved In Assassination Of Hamas Chief says Blinken; Israel Used Dogs, Waterboarding On Palestinian Detainees: UN Flags “Torture”; Gaza Agency Says Israel Killed 300 In Khan Yunis, IDF Claims 150 Terrorists
- Infosys Under Investigation, Gets Pre-Show Cause Notice For Alleged Rs 32,400Cr GST Evasion; Retro or prospective? SC reserves order on states’ power to tax mining Cos; Unaprime buys Tata Healthcare’s 43.5% in Lokmanya Hospitals; Deloitte leases 175,000 sq ft office space at Prestige Group’s building in Delhi’s Aerocity
- Sansera signs MoU with Karnataka to set up manufacturing facility at Rs 2,100 Cr; Mahindra looks to add five-door Thar production capacity by 4,000 units per month; Russia bans gasoline exports in Sept-Oct 2024, reports TASS
- Attero launches e-waste recycling platform ‘Selsmart’ for consumers; Ather Energy to sign long-term battery supply contract with Amara Raja; Govt introduces bill to replace 90-year-old Aircraft Act; aims to improve ease of doing biz; Star terminates $1.5 billion ICC TV rights deal with Zee
- Russia Begins 3rd Stage Of Non-Strategic Nuclear Exercises; Jailed Kremlin Critic Vladimir Kara-Murza’s Location “Unknown,” Says Lawyer; In Over 2 Years Of War, Russia And Ukraine Are Also Fighting Fake News
- Lavish Blue Lobster, Wine Feast For King Charles Cost France ₹ 4Cr; blue lobster (a rare French delicacy), crab, poultry marinaded in champagne and a gratin of French mushrooms
- Turkey Introduces ‘Massacre Law’ To Remove Stray Dogs From Streets; animal welfare activists worry could lead to a mass culling
- Today’s Word – Gossamer – Filmy substance consisting of cobwebs
