Daily Curated News –255

January 24, 2024 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 24 January- 5 Mins read
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  1. He Was Seen Trying to Sell His Parker Pen’: Massive Search On for Missing Bengaluru Boy – Parinav was last seen in CCTV footage near Majestic bus station 4.30 pm on Jan 21. With no phone in his hand and just his backpack, Parinav’s family members hope that he finds a way to reach out to them
  2. Mother of All Breaches: size of the database is estimated to be 12T- containing roughly 26BN records From X, LinkedIn, & More
  3. Scientists Capture Plants “Talking” To Each Other For The First Time; To capture the communication, these scientists used an air pump connected to a container of leaves and caterpillars, and another box with Arabidopsis thaliana, a common weed from the mustard family
  4. 40 Yr old Kolkata Man Threatens To Jump Off Bridge, Changes Mind After Job, Biryani Promise By Cops
  5. Delhi HC asserted that findings of cruelty against a woman in divorce proceedings couldn’t serve as grounds to deny her maintenance from the husband under the Domestic Violence Act; “Mental Cruelty”: Delhi HC Grants Divorce To Man From “Non-Adjusting” Wife
  6. National Polls On April 16? After Viral Note To Officers; Shortly afterwards the Delhi CEO’s office posted on X, stressing the date was “reference only”.
  7. 21 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Deadliest Attack in Gaza. What Led to the Biggest Military Setback?; “Don’t Want To See Hospitals As War Zones”, US Tells Israel; Israel Faces Mounting Pressure to End Gaza War Amid Deadliest Day for Troops; IDF To Probe “Disaster” After 24 Soldiers Killed In Gaza, Netanyahu Says “Lessons Must Be Learned”
  8. Karpoori Thakur, the late former Bihar chief minister and socialist leader, will be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously, in time for his 100th birth anniversary celebrations; Mentored Lalu, Nitish
  9. “Go Enjoy Custody”: SC Raps Gujarat Cops For Public Flogging asking angrily from where did they draw the authority to tie people to poles and beat them up
  10. Namibian Cheetah Mom Jwala Gives Birth To Three Cute Little Cubs At Kuno; also given birth to four cubs last March. But unfortunately, only one of them survived
  11. 6 Indians will be part of the French military team that will march down the majestic Kartavya Path alongside Indian contingents at the 75th Republic Day parad
  12. DNA from a type of “chewing gum” used by teenagers in Sweden 10,000 years ago is shedding new light on the Stone Age diet and oral health
  13. Myanmar Military Aircraft Skids Off Runway In Mizoram, Fuselage Splits; “Will Discuss With States”: Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister On Myanmar Fence
  14. Bulldozer Action in Mumbai Where Clashes Took Place after Ram Temple Rally; Police said 15 “illegal” properties in the area are being bulldozed
  15. Byju’s To Slash $22BN Valuation By 90% To Raise Fresh Funds; CCI approves JSW’s acquisition of up to 38% stake in MG Motor India; CCI greenlights Tata Electronics’ acquisition of iPhone supplier Wistron; Average age of customers opting to buy Rolls-Royce cars is mid-40s
  16. SK Finance raises Rs 1,328 cr from TPG, Motilal Oswal; CCI approves merger of Fincare Small Finance Bank with AU Small Finance Bank; IT filers more than double to 7.78 cr in 10 years
  17. Elista plans to manufacture for international market from Andhra plant; Amber Group signs MoU with South Korea’s Korea Circuit, YoungPoong Group Co; USA’s DFC, Norfund, two others provide $1 billion to SAEL Industries
  18. Indian Railways cuts SUV mass transport rates by 33%; Passenger traffic rose 35 pc to 51.58MN at Mumbai airport in 2023; Airlines to ramp up tech, training to handle customers during flight disruption
  19. Study: Around 245,000 Holocaust Survivors Alive; 119,300 of them live in Israel, 38,400 in the United States, 21,900 in France and 14,200 in Germany
  20. Airline Passengers flying to and from the UK and Ireland found themselves in entirely diff destinations and in some cases different countries due to Storm Isha
  21. Small Hamlet in US-Canada Border Hands Early Victory to Nikki Haley ahead of Showdown with Trump; Trump Seeks To Lock In Nomination At New Hampshire Showdown
  22. Three died after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked a mountainous and remote part of China’s far western Xinjiang region
  23. Italy: Newlyweds, 39 Guests Fall 25 Feet As Dance Floor Collapses During Wedding; As guests were dancing and enjoying themselves, a huge hole suddenly opened up, sending all of them plummeting through the floor
  24. Princess Aiko, 22, is set to start working at the Japanese Red Cross Society in April after completing her graduation from Tokyo’s Gakushuin University
  25. Today’s Word – Farctate – Full; stuffed