NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 23 November- 5 Mins read
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- Tunnel Nightmare Day 11: Expect Good News in the morning says Rescue Team; “12 Metres Left” In Race To Save 41 Workers; auger or earth drilling machine has drilled 18 metres so far; Daksh Brothers – Rovers In Rescue Op
- In Karnataka’s Haveri, Former Students Unite To Renovate Dilapidated School; Each alumnus pledged to construct a room, and collective contributions from 500 former students amounted to an impressive Rs 1.16Cr
- As Israel has waged its war in the Gaza Strip, officials across the world are united in trying to figure out how to restore order when all the fighting stops. There’s little agreement, however, and even less optimism; Under Attack, Displaced Gazans Search For Warm Clothes As Cold Sets In
- Israel Agrees To Deal For Release Of 50 Hostages, Hamas Welcomes ‘Truce’; Biden’s “Time’s Up” Call To Qatar Ruler Sealed Israel Hostages Deal; “Already Known That Israel Built Bunkers Under Gaza Hospital”, Says Ex-PM; Israel Offers 150 Palestine Prisoners For 50 Hostages In Phase Two Of Deal, Hezbollah To Join Truce?
- G20 Virtual Summit: Amid Deepfake Concern, PM Modi Says AI Must Be Safe For Society, Welcomes Israel-Hamas Truce Deal
- J&K: One army officer of captain rank and a soldier have been killed in action after a fierce encounter broke in Baji Mall forests of Rajouri; Two soldiers reportedly injured; Coast Guard Seizes Pak Fishing Boat With 13 Crew Members In Arabian Sea
- “Manipur Needs A Political Solution”: Top Army Officer’s Big Remark; “Absolutely Inhuman…”: Manipur MLA On Highway Blockade In Crisis-Hit State; Displaced Medical Students Claim “Barred From Taking Exams” In Manipur
- Massive Twist In OpenAI Saga, Sam Altman Returns As CEO Within 5 Days; appoint new board members after nearly all of its employees threatened to quit over his surprise sacking; Emmett Shear “Glad To Be Part Of Solution”
- Schoolchildren Flung Into Air As Auto, Truck Collide In Andhra, 8 injured, 2 critical; 10-Year-Old Student Dies After Teacher Makes Him Do Sit-Ups In Odisha School
- Passengers Make Children Sit On Snack Trays In Vande Bharat, Railway Official Disapproves – One of the main reasons for breaking of snack trays or defective snack trays; Infra Upgrade Allows Central Railway to Run 42 Trains at 130 kmph Across Sections; After
- India Resumes E-Visa Services For Canadians After 2-Month Pause; all visa services resumed, including tourist visas. Services for four, including business and medical visas, resumed in Oct
- NIA Raids 12 Places In Punjab, Haryana In Connection With Attacks On Indian Consulate In San Francisco; Files Chargesheet Against 4 In ISIS Jabalpur Module Case
- Gautam Singhania’s Separation From Wife Erases ₹ 1,500 Cr At Raymond; stock has tumbled 12% since Nov. 13; Nawaz sought 75% of Singhania’s $1.4 billion fortune as part of a settlement
- Naveen Jindal backtracks, Go First has nowhere to go; DGCA slaps Rs 10 lakh penalty on Air India; suspends RedBird’s authorisation to carry out maintenance of its planes
- India’s appetite for Russian oil reduces, share slips to lowest in 9 months as OPEC gains; Servotech Power Systems bags order for 2,649 EV chargers from Bharat Petroleum; Made in India EV superbike with 221 km range and top speed of 135 kph launched
- North India leads in fraud credit applications, banks concerned over credit appraisal process of FinTechs; RBI Governor asks NBFC-MFIs to be judicious in using flexibility on interest rates; NBFCs likely to see assets growth moderating to 16-18 pc in FY24
- Companies & retailers start discounts, redo retail stores, hire 20% higher temporary gig workforce for Black Friday; NSE, West Bengal sign MoU to facilitate fundraising for SMEs in the State
- Tata Motors to take home Rs 2,300Cr windfall from Rs 34Cr Tata Tech investment; ‘Xiaomi India saw 200% growth in 5G smartphones in festive season; France’s Thomson Computing partners with India’s Sahasra Group to make laptops, tablets under PLI 2.0
- US: 725,000 Indian illegal immigrants – 3rd largest population of unauthorised immigrants after Mexico and El Salvador
- Wadi Al-Salam: World’s Largest Cemetery Where 6 Million Bodies Are Buried; In a submission to UNESCO, Iraq estimated its area at 917 hectares – the equivalent of more than 1,700 football fields
- HRW: Chinese authorities have removed Islamic architectural features, such as domes and minarets, from many other mosques; part of a “systematic effort” to curb the practice of Islam in China
- N Korea succeeded in putting a military spy satellite in orbit after two previous failures, as US led its allies in condemning the launch as a “brazen violation” of UN sanctions
- Iceland Braces For “Imminent” Volcanic Eruption Warning With Just 30-Minute Warning; last volcanic eruption in the Reykjanes peninsula took place in 2021. It was the first one in 8 centuries
- US-Canada border crossings near Niagara Falls were closed as terrorism investigators responded to a vehicle explosion at Rainbow Bridge, 2 Dead
- Today’s Word – Xerotic – Dry
