NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 23 Aug – 5 Mins read
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- 48-Yr-Old Coimbatore Man Lives With Two Beating Hearts After Heterotopic Transplantation; Dr Prashanth Vadiyanath, successfully made both hearts beat in sync. His achievement not only saved the patient’s life; brought immense joy to patient and the family
- South Asia’s Tallest 250 meters high Skydeck Worth ₹ 500Cr To Come Up In Bengaluru; For reference, the Qutub Minar stands at 73 meters tall, so this would be over 3 times taller
- Written words, either through email or on social media, that could lower dignity of a woman constitutes an offence, Bombay HC said while refusing to quash a case against a man
- CBI To Conduct Polygraph Test On Former RG Kar Principal Sandip Ghosh, 4 Other Doctors In Kolkata Rape-Murder Case; ‘Everything Was Altered, We Entered The Probe On Day 5′: CBI To Supreme Court In Kolkata Rape-Murder Case; We Are Resuming Duties’: AIIMS Doctors’ Body Calls Off 11-day Strike Against Kolkata Horror After SC’s Assurance
- Chinese scientists have discovered a “brand-new method” of producing large quantities of water using lunar soil brought back from a 2020 expedition
- Asia’s 1st Known Case Of New Deadlier Mpox Strain Confirmed In Thailand; “New Variant”: 171 Confirmed Mpox Cases Recorded In Burundi; Singapore Detects 13 Cases Of Mpox Clade 2 Infection
- One of the world’s largest diamonds ever unearthed a rough 2,492-carat stone found in the Karowe Diamond Mine in northeastern Botswana, 430KMs from the capital Gaborone
- Big Auto-Taxi Strike In Delhi-NCR On August 22-23, Union Says ‘They’re Getting Affected Due to Ola, Uber; Genesys International likely to bag orders worth Rs 200Cr from automakers; PNGRB seeks common carrier status for PSUs’ ATF pipelines
- Srivaru Motors unveils electric bike PRANA 2.0; targets to sell 10,000 units; Audi India bats for reduced GST of 5% on EVs till penetration in luxury vehicles reaches 50%; Alkem Labs diversifies into medical devices biz; B’desh upheaval takes a toll on medical tourism in India; ICMR-led study estimates 10-year risk of developing heart disease in adults in India
- GST appellate authority orders Airtel to pay Rs 194 cr GST on license fee, SUC demand; No coercive action against broadcasters for non-publication of RIO, Trai tells Kerala HC; Disney-Reliance offer concessions for $8.5BN India merger, but no cricket rights sale
- Ayodhya Woman Claimed She Had 24 Kids in 23 Years. Turns Out 21 of Those Kids were actually saplings she had planted, which she symbolically considered her children
- Nestle CEO Mark Schneider To Step Down After 8 Years, Laurent Freixe To Take Over; Adani Power gets NCLT’s nod to acquire Lanco Amarkantak Power for Rs 4,101Cr; 14 hydropower projects damaged due to flash floods in Himachal since July 25
- Israel Eliminates Palestinian Militant Linked To President Abbas’ Group Fatah, Claims He Colluded With Iran’s IRGC; Iran’s New Foreign Minister To ‘Harden Stance’ On Nuclear Policy As Threat Of War With Israel Looms; Israel Spy Chief Asks “Forgiveness” For Oct 7 Failure, Biden Urges Gaza Ceasefire, Netanyahu Defiant
- Alzheimer’s patients in Britain’s state-run health service are unlikely to get access to Eisai and Biogen’s new Leqembi drug, after it was approved by NICE but deemed too expensive for wide use
- Democratic Convention’s TV Ratings Beat Donald Trump-Led Republican Event; Kennedy Jr To Quit Race, Will Support Trump; ‘Nostradamus’ Of US Elections Says Robert Kennedy Jr Quitting Race Will Help KH
- Bangladesh’s Interim Govt Revokes Sheikh Hasina’s Diplomatic Passport; Seeks $1BN From World Bank As Budgetary Support; Iran Probe Finds Raisi Helicopter Crash Caused By Bad Weather, Army Cries Foul, Calls Report ‘False’
- In A First, Sri Lanka Gets Set for Four-Horse Race, Direct Face-Off Expected Closer to Polls; With the victory of pro-China leaders in Maldives, Nepal and now Bangladesh, India is closely watching the elections in Sri Lanka
- Neeraj Chopra saved his best for the last and threw 89.49m in his sixth and final attempt to finish second in the Lausanne Diamond League
- Today’s Word – Cynosure – Center of attention or admiration
