NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 2 October – 5 Mins read
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- Asian Games 2023: India Win Bronze in Men’s, Women’s Speed Skating 3000m Relay Race; Indian Men’s, Women’s Teams Clinch Bronze In Roller Skating; Nandini Agasara Claims Bronze In Women’s Heptathlon; India Sign Off With First-Ever Badminton Team Silver
- Asian Games 2023: Murali Sreeshankar Secures Silver, Double Delight In Men’s 1500m; Record-breaking Avinash Sable became 1st Indian man to win a gold medal in 3000m steeplechase; Tajinderpal Singh Toor Defends Shot Put Gold
- A baby with congenital heart disease developed severe breathing issues during a Ranchi-Delhi flight when two co-passengers, both doctors, came to the child’s rescue
- PM Modi, leaders across states participate in ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ drive on Gandhi Jayanti eve; Pays Tribute To Mahatma Gandhi
- IAF chopper with 6 on board makes precautionary landing near a lake in Dungariya village in Bhopal district; none hurt
- “Gave Her My Shirt”: Auto Driver Who Was Jailed For Not Helping Ujjain Rape Survivor; he told the police his only mistake was he did not take the girl to hospital, but left her on the road
- Dima Hasao: Once Upon a Time Hit by Militancy, Assam’s Only Hill Station Major Tourist Destination Now
- Odisha College Students Make 23-Foot Elephant Statue Using 30,000 Disposed Plastic Bottles; picked and collected from different parts of the city as part of an initiative to curb plastic pollution
- Manipur: Four held for killing of 2 students, taken to Assam; Kuki groups protest; Arrested Manipur man also suspect in Kwakta bomb case, says NIA; Afspa withdrawn from 4 Assam districts and extended in 4 others
- Harvard University Makes History, Welcomes First Black President; Claudine Gay – 30th president since Harvard University’s founding in 1640
- NMC: Most medical colleges have ghost faculty, all fail to meet 50% attendance requirement according to assessment of 246 colleges in 2022-23 by UGMEB
- Bengaluru: No More Carpooling in City, those caught using private vehicle for commercial purposes via Quick Ride, Bla Bla Cars will face heavy challans of Rs 10,000, cancellation of registration, or both
- Varanasi-bound Akasa flight delayed for hours after a remark made by an exasperated passenger triggered security staff to carry out extensive pre-boarding checking ahead of the scheduled time
- After 350 Years, Chhatrapati Shivaji’s ‘Tiger Claw’ Set For India Return; Maha Culture Minister, Sudhir Mungantiwar, will arrive in London to sign an agreement with the museum for the return
- Oil PSUs take a hit as global prices rise but local rates frozen; MGL slashes prices of CNG in Mumbai; to cost Rs 76/ kg from Oct 2; India allows Nepal to sell electricity in the real time market; Natural gas price ceiling for difficult fields down 18% for 6 months
- Indian auto industry breaks records: 363,733 cars and SUVs sold in Sep; Carmakers raise prices, cut offers on best-sellers amid strong demand; GM India’s retrenched workers to sit on an indefinite chain hunger strike
- This week’s Nobel Prize announcements will celebrate a string of groundbreaking achievements, but with conflicts raging around the globe, experts solicited about possible Peace Prize winners are scratching their heads
- Fresno becomes 2nd US city to ban caste discrimination; comes amid a nationwide civil rights movement, led mostly by South Asian Americans who come from caste-oppressed backgrounds; Chicago is keeping hundreds of migrants at airports while waiting on shelters and tents
- Suicide bomber detonates device in the Turkish capital; 2nd assailant killed in shootout; Two police officers were slightly injured; “Destroyed 20 Targets”: Turkey’s Air Strikes In Northern Iraq After Ankara Blast
- ‘Canada’s PM Won’t Make Such Statements’: Trudeau’s Aide Assures India of ‘All Help’ in Nijjar’s Case
- Azerbaijan Issues Warrant for Former Separatist Leader as UN Mission Arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh
- Poland: Warsaw ‘Biggest’ Rally Draws ‘A Million’ Anti-govt Protesters with rally culminating with a speech by Tusk, the head of the centrist Civic Coalition bloc
- PM Rishi Sunak under growing pressure from members of his Cabinet to take UK out of EU Convention on Human Rights, a move that could open a dramatic rift in Govt ahead of a general election
- Today’s Word – Zeme – Caribbean idol or totem
