NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 5 Aug – 5 Mins read
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- Paris Olympics 2024: Djokovic Beats Alcaraz, Clinches Gold Medal; 10-Man India Beat GB, 1 Win Away From Historic Medal; Lakshya Sen Receives Big ‘Favourite’ Praise From Viktor Axelsen Despite loss; “Looked Calm, There Was Storm Inside”: Turkish Shooter On ‘Cool’ Posture
- 87 Roads Shut In Himachal Due To Heavy Rains, Yellow Alert Sounded For 5 Days; Himachal Suffered ₹ 700 Crore Loss Due To Floods, Cloudbursts; Flood Alert For Parts Of Bengal After Water Released From 2 Jharkhand Dams; Abandoned Homes Being Looted, Say Wayanad Landslide Survivors
- 2023 saw highest-ever organ transplants in India – 63% living donors women; 77% deceased donors were men. Among recipients, 30% women, with proportion being highest among lung recipients at 47%
- Govt flagged “multiple vulnerabilities” in iPhones, iPads and other Apple products that could lead to spoofing and even leak sensitive information
- 9 Children Killed In Madhya Pradesh Wall Collapse, 2nd Incident In 2 Days; CM announces financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh; 3 Coaches Of Local Train Derail In UP’s Saharanpur, None Injured; MEMU train was empty
- Delhi Police Arrests Parsvanath Landmark CEO Sanjeev Jain From Delhi Airport After Chasing Him For 60 Km; Four non-bailable warrants and one bailable warrant issued
- MP: 72,000 bottles of banned cough syrup valued at Rs 1.2 crore seized; two held; valued at Rs 1.22Cr were confiscated from a godown owned by one Arvind Jain, a resident of Sagar
- Meitei bodies accuse Assam Rifles of bias, cite Kuki-Zo opposition to its ‘replacement’ with CRPF
- Corporal punishment cannot be education’: Chhattisgarh High Court dismisses plea by teacher charged in student’s suicide
- 15 Killed In Israeli Airstrike On Gaza School Being Used As Shelter; 2 Stabbed To Death In Israel, Hamas Calls It “Natural Response” To Attacks; 30 Killed After Israeli Strike Hits 2 Schools; As Iran Strike Looms, Israel Hopes For “Abraham Alliance” With US, UK; Hezbollah Fires ‘Dozens’ Of Rockets At Israel As Tensions Spike In Middle East
- India asked citizens in Bangladesh to be in touch, remain alert after 91 people died in fresh clashes between protesters and supporters of the ruling Awami League
- Godavari Flowing In Spate, Residents Along Its Banks In Maharashtra’s Nashik On Alert – Wayanad Landslides: One Of The First Informers Of Landslide Dies Before Rescuers Reach Her
- Rise in construction activities to propel India’s cement demand by 7-8% in FY25; River Mobility on expansion mode; aims to open 100 stores by March 2026
- Anti-Immigration Protests Rage In UK, Northern Ireland, Dozens Arrested; murders were seized on by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups as misinformation spread that the suspect was a radical Islamist migrant but suspect born in Britain
- F-16 Fighter Jets Arrive; Zelensky Says “We Did It”; announced use of F-16s, which Kyiv has long lobbied for, as he met military pilots at an air base flanked by two of the jets with two more flying overhead; Ukraine Claims It Sunk Russian Submarine In Crimea, Struck Airfields And Oil Depot
- Deloitte India aims to be first Big 4 firm to hit ₹20,000Cr revenue by 2027; BCCL pays first-ever Rs 44Cr dividend to Coal India Limited; Finmin asks state-owned general insurance companies to focus on profitable businesses; Govt finalising DPR of Rs 41,000Cr transhipment port at Great Nicobar Island
- Delhi NCR embraces luxury housing, affordable housing sales dip; India’s dairy sector expected to clock 13-14 pc revenue growth this year on strong demand
- US: Indian Student Charged For Falsifying Records For University Admission To Return Home Under Plea Deal
- Today’s Word – Kaleidoscope – Constantly changing pattern
