NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 7 December- 5 Mins read
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- Squadron leader Manisha Padhi, a 2015 batch Indian Air Force (IAF) officer, became the first woman in the country to ascend to the post of Aide-de-Camp (ADC)
- 2023 will be the hottest in recorded history after an “extraordinary” Nov became 6th record-breaking month in a row, piling pressure on the COP28 talks to act on climate change
- Punjab Cops Had Flagged Threats To Murdered Rajput Leader, Suggests Intel; Protests, Rajasthan Tense After Karni Sena Leader Shot, Cops Say Killers Identified; Shutdown Call
- 31% Rise In Crimes Promoting Enmity Between Groups In 2022; In 2022, nine states registered over 100 cases under IPC sections 153A, while in 2021 Andhra & UP with such offences in three digits
- UP reported highest number of murder cases at 3,491 in 2022 followed by Bihar (2,930), Maharashtra (2,295), and Madhya Pradesh (1,978); Sikkim (9), Nagaland (21), Mizoram (31), Goa (44), and Manipur (47) were the states with the least number of murder cases
- North Gaza Decimated, Israel Tanks Now Train Their Guns On South; Study Claims Hamas Made Millions By Short-Selling Ahead Of Oct 7 Attack; UN says Palestinians In Gaza Living In “Utter, Deepening Horror; “We Regret The Incident”: Israel On Inadvertent Attack On Lebanese Troops; May Take A Month to Open New Truce Window, Release More Hostages from Gaza
- Harvard University, MIT Heads Defend Response To Israel-Gaza Protests; Israel Attacks Jabalia Camp, IDF Lists “Top Priority” After Netanyahu Cornered By Hostages’ Families; ‘Inaccurate’: Israel Stock Exchange Slams Paper Claiming Investors Profited from Oct 7 Attack; Israeli-linked ship seized by Houthis in Nov is now a tourist spot
- 32yr Old Baryl Vanneihsangi of ZPM, The Youngest MLA Of Mizoram won from Aizawl South-III constituency by 1,414 votes; 90 Out Of 230 Newly Elected MP MLAs Have Criminal Cases; In Chhattisgarh 72 Newly-Elected MLAs Are Crorepatis, BJP Tops List, 17 Out Of 90 Newly Elected MLAs Have Criminal Cases
- After Covid, return to office, performance pressure keep Gen Z stressed; 70% of the people from a sample of over 10,000 seeking counselling support from mental health service provider Amaha in 2023 were young working professionals in the age group of 22-35 years
- Delhi Police File Written Arguments Against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh In Sexual Assault Case lodged by women wrestlers
- UNICEF: 69MN children (1 in 5) live in poverty in the world’s 40 richest countries blasting Britain and France for their particularly bad standings
- Four Indians Nirmala Sitharaman, Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Soma Mondal & Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw On Forbes’ List Of Most Powerful Women For 2023
- Cash-for-kidney case: Govt says ‘need concrete evidence’ before taking action; India to extend its global presence on pharmaceutical market with BRICS plus membership; Venus Remedies gets marketing authorisation from Philippines, Saudi Arabia for three oncology drugs
- Mahindra & Mahindra announces price hike for passenger, commercial vehicles in 2024; Suzuki Motor Gujarat crosses 30 lakh cumulative production mark; Auto retail sales grow by 18% in Nov; 2-wheeler, passenger vehicles reach all-time high
- Iran Just Sent a Capsule named Salman with Animals into Earth’s Orbit as Precursor to Manned Missions; In 2013, Iran said it sent a monkey into space and returned it successfully
- IATA: Airlines Expect Record 4.7BN Passengers In 2024; also raised its profit outlook, expecting airlines to post $23.3BN in net earnings in 2023, more than double the $9.8BN it forecast in June
- US: A police officer acquitted of all charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain was reinstated and will receive more than $200,000 in back pay.
- Indonesia Planned To Breed “Good” Mosquitoes To Combat Dengue. Now That Plan Has Been Put On Hold; The lab-bred mosquitoes injected with Wolbachia bacteria were meant to be released in dengue fever ‘red zones’ in the city of Yogyakarta in mid-Nov
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un apparently wipes tears and looks emotional in a video from a recent event where he called for efforts to tackle the country’s falling birth rates; Urges N Korean Women To Have More Babies
- ‘Didn’t Produce Results We Hoped For’: Italy Exits China’s Belt and Road Project; termed pet project as ‘predatory’ in nature
- Today’s Word – Lagostoma – a species of terrestrial crab in south atlantic
