NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 20 December- 5 Mins read
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- INS Shivaji Gets Original ‘Vir Chakra’ Awarded to late Vice-Admiral Benoy Roy Chowdhury for his gallant actions during the 1971 India-Pakistan war
- 4 Indian Scientists Head to Arctic for First Winter Expedition, Set Up Year-Round Presence at Svalbard; team is carrying as many as 15 scientific projects on board and plan to study the radio-wave signals from outer space as well as the atmospheric aerosols and their role in polar climate
- Colorado Court Declares Trump Ineligible To Hold US President Office Again; Vivek Ramaswamy Vows To Withdraw From Colorado Ballot Over Trump Ruling; “Undemocratic”: Trump’s Team Slams Colorado Ruling After Disqualification
- New Covid Strain Classified As “Variant Of Interest” By WHO; Telangana Hospitals On Alert Amid Rise In Covid Cases In Kerala; Repeated infections of Covid certainly not good for health’
- Odisha on Alert Mode after Cholera Cases Detected in Rourkela; 1,000 suffered; 6 died in span of 7 days
- Israel Intensifies Strikes On Gaza As UN Weighs New Call For Ceasefire; UN Agencies “Furious” At Gaza Hospital Attacks, Voice Anger And Disbelief; UN Vote On Gaza Delayed By A Day Amid Talks To Avoid US Veto; Hamas Chief To Visit Egypt For Gaza Ceasefire Talks Today; ‘Productive Exchange of Views’: PM Modi Speaks To Netanyahu Over Phone On Israel-Hamas Conflict
- Meta Accused Of Mishandling Israel-Hamas War Posts; Google Apps Suspend Israel Traffic-Jam Displays Amid Rockets From Gaza; Ready For Another Humanitarian Pause To Enable Hostage Release says Israel; 20,000 Killed In Gaza As Israel-Hamas War Rages; Yemen’s Rebels Pledge To Continue Red Sea Attacks Despite Warning From US
- Manipur Sees Fresh Violence: Sec 144 Imposed in Churchandpur, Internet Banned; The violence, a day before the scheduled mass burial of 87 victims of ethnic violence prompted Govt to impose precautionary prohibitory orders under the criminal procedure code
- Govt Spent ₹ 967.46Cr on Advertisements in Print Media Since 2019 for publicity through the Central Bureau of Communication
- Not Feeling Safe’: Woman Shows How Ticketless Passengers Flooded First AC Coach of Sikkim Mahananda Express; individuals without confirmed tickets filling the passage
- Indian Navy Evacuates Injured Sailor From Hijacked Malta-flagged cargo vessel In Arabian Sea hijackers released the sailor who has now been flown to Oman for treatment
- 25 Manipur Schools Lose CBSE Affiliation Over Alleged Paperwork Fraud; Govt will act against those responsible for violating state education, CBSE rules, or worse, for alleged fraud in submitting affiliation
- “Gross Misuse”: Green Tribunal Slams Pollution Control Body for diverting environmental compensation deposited with it for “unauthorised purposes; gross misuse and serious financial irregularity
- 10 Dead As Heavy Rain Batters Tamil Nadu, 17,000 People Shifted To Relief Camps; TN Chief Secretary said IMF forecast was also ‘wrong’ as extremely heavy rainfall was received in the affected districts; All Train Passengers Stranded in Flood-hit Southern TN Rescued
- RIL pays Rs 254 cr to Metro for using its brand name in India; Peak power demand likely to be 230 GW in Jan 2024; Vivo India back in the black in FY23, reports Rs 211-cr net profit; NCLAT to wait for the outcome of SC petitions to decide on Jet Airways’ bidder JKC case
- Mumbai-based business couple Harihara and Preeti Mahapatra to invest Rs 1,100Cr in SpiceJet; Delhi HC raps SpiceJet on delay in payment to lessors, says return the engines if you can’t pay; Indian airlines likely to prune losses to Rs 3,000-5,000 cr this fiscal: ICRA
- JB Pharma acquires trademark licenses, distribution rights of Novartis eye care portfolio in India for Rs 1089Cr; API maker Fleming Laboratories raises Rs 110Crr from PE fund InvAscent; Vijaya Diagnostic to acquire PH Diagnostic for Rs 134.65Cr
- Ford drives out of deal to sell Tamil Nadu plant to JSW; India’s passenger vehicle sales set to gain further momentum; Driverless cars will take away jobs, will never allow these in India says Nitin Gadkari
- Tighter norms for investment by banks in AIFs; Saraswat to offload bad loans, draws interest from top ARCs; Unclaimed deposits with banks rise by 28 pc to Rs 42,270 cr in FY23
- Bids for another 100 critical mineral blocks in Feb 2024; Delhi HC orders CBI & DRI to investigate allegations of over-invoicing by companies including Adani, Essar; JSL gets board approval to acquire Rabirun Vinimay for Rs 96Cr via insolvency
- French Court Jails Ex-Doctor Sosthene Munyemana 24 Yrs Over 1994 Rwanda Genocide in Which 800,000 Were Killed
- China Earthquake Death Count Rises To 127, Rescue Ops Underway; Taiwan’s Iconic Elephant Trunk Rock Collapses Into Sea Due To Natural Weathering
- British Millionaire Kidnapped From His Ecuador Home By 15 Men Disguised As Cops; believed to have driven the couple away in Mr Armstrong’s black BMW, which was later found abandoned nearby
- Days After Zelensky’s Visit, US Says No Aid To Ukraine Before Year’s End; Certain US Will “Not Betray” Ukraine: Zelensky Amid War With Russia; “Understaffed” Ukraine Army Struggles To Find Recruits Amid War With Russia; “Will Not Give Up What Is Ours”: Putin To US, West As Ukraine War Rages
- Today’s Word – Warrener – Keeper of a warren of rabbits
