Daily Curated News –158

October 7, 2023 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 7 October – 5 Mins read

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  1. Asian Games 2023: Indian Men’s Hockey Team Clinches Gold, Seals Paris 2023 Berth With 5-1 Win Over Japan; India End Day On Record 95 Medals; Anti-Doping Agency Warns Olympic Council Over N Korea Flag At Asian Games
  2. Narges Mohammadi Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Fighting for Iranian Women’s Rights; distinguished herself as an advocate for equality and women’s rights and has spent several years in prison. She is out on bail since November 2021
  3. Indian-origin professor Dr Joyeeta Gupta received the prestigious Dutch Prize for her work in the field of climate change
  4. ODI World Cup 2023: Shubman Gill Not Ruled Out of Australia Fixture, Team Management Willing to Wait; Bas de Leede’s Valiant Effort Falls Short for the Dutch vs Pakistan
  5. No Hope of Waking Up Lander and Rover Now, Says Space Scientist, Signalling Possible End of Chandrayaan-3 Odyssey
  6. Ground Report: 3-Room Nursing College In Madhya Pradesh Exposes A Larger Problem; one faculty member teaches in 10 colleges in three cities – as the principal of some colleges and as an associate professor in others
  7. Mumbai: 8 Dead, 40 Hurt in Massive Fire at Goregaon Building; PM Modi, CM Shinde Announce Ex-gratia; Major Accident Averted As Train Guard Spots Boulders on Tracks Near Pune; 2nd Such Case in Last 4 Days
  8. Sikkim Flood: Toll Climbs to 22; Two More Dead As Mortar Shell Washed Away By Teesta River Explodes; Heavy Rains Likely in Assam, TN
  9. World’s Longest Bi-Lane Sela Tunnel At 13,000 Feet In Arunachal Nears Completion; 90% done
  10. Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train: Another Milestone as NHSRCL Erects First Steel Bridge, 27 More To Go
  11. DoT rejects Voda Idea’s objections on license fees worth Rs 3,273 cr for FY2015-17; Nokia opens ‘6G Lab’ in India to drive development of technology, use cases
  12. Vizag Steel Plant clocks best ever H1 sales of wire rod coils, structurals, value-added steel; Tata Motors global wholesales rise 7 pc to 3.42 lakh units in Sept qtr
  13. _Govt committed to keep aircraft lessors’ confidence intact in Indian aviation market
  14. India Battery Manufacturing Vision aims 500GWh annual capacity by 2035; to bring USD 35 bn investments; Tamil Nadu to add 5,000MW of wind power by the end of 2023:_
  15. Barclays hires dealmakers in India amid firmwide job cuts; India’s banks are making $64 billion from a freebie; User adds, higher data usage to help telcos in Q2, Airtel may lead in ARPU growth
  16. Canada Moves Diplomats from India to Singapore, Malaysia; New Delhi Mulls More Action; And after cancellation of visas, India sees no requirement for a high-strength presence of Canadian diplomats
  17. US: 5-Year-Old Kansas Girl Raped, Murdered after Mother Kicks Her Out of The House; One Arrested
  18. Luxembourg’s residents may be classified as the wealthiest in the European Union, but the sky-high cost of buying or renting a home made living there nearly impossible for some; new-build flats sell for 13,000 euros/Sq Mtr; older at 10,700 euros. The average cost of a house is 1.5 million euros
  19. An anonymous bomb threat that prompted the Philippines to put all its commercial airports on heightened security alert is “most likely a hoax”,
  20. Singapore is experiencing another COVID-19 wave, with more people expected to fall sick and be hospitalised in the coming weeks
  21. Footprints Dating Back To Over 20,000 Years Found In New Mexico using two further dating approaches
  22. Mont Blanc Shrinks By Over 2 Mts; Experts said that France’s tallest mountain was losing around 13 centimetres of height every year
  23. Today’s Word – Ecophene – Range of phenotypes produced by a genotype in a given environment