Daily Curated News –180

October 29, 2023 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 29 October – 5 Mins read

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  1. ODI World Cup 2023: ‘What have you done?’: Mass chaos in frantic final over as thriller shows cricket ‘at its very best’; 19 to win; Starc conceded 5 wides & still Aus managed to win; Warner Closes in Gap With Quinton de Kock in Golden Bat Race; Adam Zampa at Top in Most Wickets Tally
  2. Hero Sana Pradhan: 48 of an overnight bus to Bhubaneswar had a close shave as their driver , who suffered a cardiac arrest, applied his presence of mind and crashed the vehicle into a wall, bringing it to a halt before breathing his last
  3. Mumbai’s Iconic Kaali-Peeli Padmini Taxis To Go Off Roads After 6 Decades following the path of retirement recently taken by the BEST’s legendary red double-decker diesel buses
  4. Political Slugfest As India Abstains On Gaza Vote At UN Emergency Session; ‘No Equivocation on Terror’: Top Govt Sources on India Abstaining from UN Vote on Israel-Hamas War; ‘Worse than earthquake’: Gaza hammered; Oil on Fire: India must plan if Israel-Hamas conflict widens
  5. Death Count In Gaza Crosses 8,000, 50% Children; Israel Presses Ground Campaign Against Hamas In ‘Second Stage’ Of Gaza War; Saudi Arabia warned Israel against any further ground operations over the threat to Palestinian civilians, denouncing an “unjustified” violation of international law
  6. UN says “Potential For Thousands More Civilians To Die In Gaza; Hamas Chief Says Ready For “Immediate” Prisoner Exchange Deal With Israel; Israel’s Offensive in Gaza Enters ‘Next Phase’, Netanyahu Says War Will be ‘Long And Difficult’; Erdogan called Western powers “the main culprit” behind the Israeli army’s “massacre” of Palestinians
  7. ‘Galti Hogai’, ‘Shall I Shoot Myself Too?’: RPF Cop’s Call To Wife After Killing 4 in Jaipur-Mumbai Train
  8. Top DGCA official Anil Gill, took planes as bribes, sold them to flight schools on a monthly lease rental of Rs 90 lakh each for favorable audits
  9. ‘NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar’ (NISAR), an earth observation satellite, will help researchers explore how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change
  10. SC’s 5-judge Bench to Hear from Oct 31 Pleas Challenging Electoral Bond Scheme for Political Funding
  11. New York City Sets Up Office To Give Migrants Free One-Way Plane Tickets to Anywhere Else; warned that those opting to stay may be in for a winter of sleeping outside with shelters full
  12. Govt Imposes Minimum Export Price of USD 800 Per Tonne on Onion Till Dec 31; Onion prices have further risen to Rs 65-80 per KG in the retail market of the national capital on lower supply
  13. In Fresh Death Threat To Mukesh Ambani, A Demand Of ₹ 200 Cr; email raised his demand from ₹ 20Cr to ₹ 200Cr due to no response to his previous email
  14. India Urges Airlines in Vietnam to Explore Possibilities of Direct Flights to North-eastern States
  15. Exam Hall In-Charge, Solvers Among 10 Arrested In UP Cheating Racket; One Vinay Kumar Patel, who was the exam hall in-charge at a centre in Varanasi, was also arrested
  16. Union Cabinet Drops ‘India’? Railways Proposal Mentions ‘Bharat’ Throughout, Including Cost Details
  17. Ultratech Cement to invest Rs 13,000Cr for increasing capacity by another 21.9 mtpa; Arunachal Pradesh: Landslide damages Subansiri hydroelectric project partially
  18. Apple India FY23 revenue hits Rs 50,000-crore on strong premium play; Govt set to expand e-bus service with focus on smaller cities
  19. Stellantis, Striking US Auto Workers Reach Tentative Deal After 44 Days; Like Ford deal, any preliminary agreement with Stellantis would need to be ratified via a vote from UAW members
  20. US Fighter Jets Scrambled As Plane Intercepted Near Biden’s Delaware Home; The civilian aircraft entered restricted airspace north of Wilmington shortly after 2 pm
  21. Mexico: Acapulco was struggling to recover from an extraordinarily powerful hurricane which claimed 39 lives and provoked widespread power, water and telephone outages
  22. Malta Hosts Fresh Round Of Ukraine-Backed Peace Talks, Russia Absent; hoped for the outcome to be agreement to hold a global peace summit later this year
  23. Kazakhstan Calls ArcelorMittal “Worst Company” After Fire In Mine Kills 32; President ordered his Govt to take control of the Kazakh branch of the company
  24. Today’s Word – Yealing – Person of the same age