NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 28 November- 5 Mins read
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- Uttarakhand Tunnel: Manual Drilling Underway; managed to push the pipe in up to 1 metre; vertical drilling from above the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel has been done up to 31 metres and the experts believe that the boring is likely to be completed by Nov 30; ‘Rock Weak Near Uttarkashi Tunnel’: Geological Report Hints At Possibility of ‘Slip Circle Failure’
- Gaza Truce Extended As Hamas Locates More Israeli hostages, Netanyahu Appeals Arab Friends; US Welcomes Announcement; ‘Deradicalize’ Palestine, Will Help to Rebuild Gaza: Musk Tells Netanyahu on his Israel Visit; Shooting of Palestinian Students in US: One Man Charged with Attempted Murder
- Israel Says 33 Palestinian Prisoners Released Under Truce Deal; UN Says 61 Trucks Carrying Medical Supplies Deliver Aid In Northern Gaza; Arab States, EU Agree Two-State Solution Answer To Israel-Hamas War; “Catastrophe Getting Worse…”: UN Chief Pushes For Gaza Truce To Become Full Ceasefire
- Pentagon: Assailants in latest ship attack near Yemen were likely Somali, not Houthi rebels; detains 5 Somali Nationals Who Boarded Ship Off Yemen
- After 4 Highest Peaks – Mount Everest (Asia), Mount Denali (North America), Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa) and Mount Elbrus (Europe), Kerala Official Shaikh Hassan Khan to Scale Mount Vinson in Antarctica; located 1,200KMs from the South Pole, one of the coldest places on Earth
- Lancet: A higher dose of the COVID-19 drug, dexamethasone, may have less beneficial effects for patients in India as compared with those in Europe
- Several Flights Affected As Rain Lashes Delhi, Mumbai; Angry Passengers Slam Airlines; Lightning Strikes Kill 27 in Gujarat; Govt to Assess Damage to Crops Due to Untimely Rains; Light Rain in Parts of Delhi, Min Temp Settles at 13.4 Deg C; Low Pressure Area Near Andamans, Likely to Intensify into Cyclone
- Gas Chamber Delhi: 100% Families Surveyed Say Had Health Issues in Last 30 Days Due to Air Pollution; Mumbai Breathes ‘Green’ Air Again As AQI Improved to ‘Satisfactory’ Category After Rain
- Kerala: Six-yr-old Girl Kidnapped From Kollam by four people in the car including a woman, Family Gets Ransom Call for Rs 5 Lakh; Search Launched; A man died after a massive fire broke out inside a jewellery shop in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai city; exact cause of fire, deceased person’s identity were not confirmed
- First-ever Kambala Buffalo Race, Inspired By Rishabh Shetty’s Kantara, Takes Place In Bengaluru; saw more than 175 pairs of buffaloes and jockeys
- Bengaluru Civic Body Aims To Achieve Net Zero Carbon Mission by 2050, Launches Action Plan; a series of actions across energy and buildings, transportation, solid waste management, water, wastewater and stormwater, air quality, urban planning, greening and biodiversity, and disaster and management
- Europe binges on Indian diesel as supplies from US, Saudi dip; Oil regulator adds Mizoram to 12th city gas bid round; Sembcorp to acquire 428 MW wind assets in India, China
- Maruti Suzuki, M&M, Audi, TATA plan price hikes in Jan; E-buses to account for 11-13% of new bus sales by FY25, says report
- FMCG Cos chart fast-moving sales growth path for kiranas to beat retail slowdown; Ditching gold as old, Indian grooms tie the knot with platinum; iPhone maker Hon Hai plans $1.6BN in India expansion bid
- LIC keen to keep part of its stake in IDBI Bank to reap benefit of bancassurance; Indel Money’s net profit rises 127% in Q2FY24, revenue up 61%
- Ground Swayed Like You Are On a Boat’: Papua New Guinea Jolted by Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake but no tsunami threats were detected
- Sri Lankan Cabinet has given clearance to allow China’s energy major Sinopec to establish a new USD 4.5 billion petroleum refinery plant at the strategic Hambantota port
- China Beefs Up Security On Myanmar Border As Rebels Claim Capture of Key Trade Crossing from Junta; WHO Says Respiratory Illness Surge In China Is Due to old pathogens; China’s Fujian Aircraft Carrier Tests Electromagnetic Catapult Amid Xi’s Naval Buildup To Counter US
- First Human Case of Flu Similar to Pigs Virus Found in UK; A(H1N2)v is similar to a virus currently circulating in pigs; patient had experienced a mild illness and fully recovered
- Saudi Arabia has introduced stricter rules for issuing visas to recruit domestic workers from abroad, saying that the minimum age for a single employer to obtain such a visa is 24 years
- Today’s Word – Caenogenesis – Process of growth in individual not common in its species
