NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 15 October – 5 Mins read
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- ODI World Cup 2023: Bowlers Set It Up, Rohit Sharma Finishes Off One-Sided Contest vs Pakistan to win by 7 wickets; ‘It Didn’t Seem Like an ICC Event… Seemed Like a BCCI Event’: Pak Team Director Mickey Arthur Minces No Words
- ISRO To Conduct Three More Test Flights For Gaganyaan Mission; GP envisages a demonstration of the human spaceflight capability by launching a human crew to an orbit of 400 km and bringing them safely back to earth
- Ukraine Minister: Tiredness” In Donor Countries Growing As War Drags On; As the war with Russia rages on, Ukraine needs to secure Western financial support to cover a $43BN budget gap in 2024
- Gaza Braces For Ground Assault As Israel Readies Troops; Residents Flee From Bombed Out Gaza As Israel Steps Up Attack; WHO Says Forcing Gaza Patients To Evacuate Effectively Death Sentence; conflict Could Impact Fuel Prices, World GDP; Biden Holds Calls with Netanyahu, Palestinians’ Abbas
- Islamic Nations’ Group Calls “Urgent, Extraordinary” to address the “military escalation” and “threat to defenceless civilians in Gaza; Israel Strikes Back After Syria Rockets Set Off Air Raid Sirens; Syria’s Aleppo Airport Out Of Service After Israeli Strike; EU Calls Video-Summit to discuss
- “If Want To Live In India, Have To Say Vande Mataram & Bharat Mata Ki Jai”: Union Minister Kailash Choudhary
- Chhattisgarh Election: 40 highly Maoist-Affected Bastar Villages To Vote For 1st Time In 40 Years; 120 polling stations are being reopened
- Latest edition of Guinness World Records has 2,638 achievements from around the world, including over 60 from India with the entry on rainfall in Meghalaya’s Cherrapunji being one of the oldest
- Assam woman (50), who was declared an illegal migrant from Bangladesh due to her mismatch names in voters’ lists, has now regained her Indian citizenship after a six-year-long legal battle
- Nagaland’s 1st Medical College Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (NIMSR) in Kohima Inaugurated By Union Health Minister
- Chhattisgarh HC: Recording Mobile Phone Conversation Sans Concerned Person’s Knowledge Violates Right to Privacy
- Five Naxals Arrested in Jharkhand; An AK-56 rifle, a semi-automatic SLR rifle, a US-made M1 rifle, a .315 bolt rifle, two country-made pistols, 275 cartridges and 80 pamphlets of organisation seized
- No Guard Of Honour For Agniveer? Army Explains since his cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot injury, no guard of honour or military funeral was provided
- Heavy Rains, Snowfall Alert in Himachal, J&K, Ladakh for Next 3 Days; Coast Guard Rescues Chinese National Suffering from Stroke off Mumbai Coast; Sensor-based System Introduced in Bihar to Forecast Air Quality 48 Hours in Advance
- IRDAI objects to Hinduja Group pledging shares of insurance company to acquire Reliance Capital; NCLT okays Steel Strips Wheels’ acquisition of AMW Autocomponent
- India vs Pakistan: Disney+ Hotstar sets new viewership record across all formats; crosses 3.5Cr mark; National Cinema Day draws over 6 million moviegoers to theatres
- PepsiCo stings Coca-Cola’s official World Cup sponsor tag with new ad; Amazon, Flipkart festive offers give a massive push in e-retail sales
- New Zealand’s incoming PM Christopher Luxon is a wealthy teetotaller and lover of country music who rose to prominence when he ran the national airline; expected to take the helm of a two-party coalition with the ACT party, ending six years of Labour rule ushered in by its former “rock star” leader Jacinda Ardern
- Bomb Alert, evacuation At Palace of Versailles After Louvre Shuts Over Threat; The alert came via an anonymous message online
- Today’s Word – Iconology – Study of icons; symbols
