NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 25 January- 5 Mins read
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- US: His father’s voice, the sounds of passing cars and scissors clipping his hair: An 11-year-old boy is hearing for the first time in his life after receiving a breakthrough gene therapy; studies may open door for future use for some of the over 150 other genes that cause childhood hearing loss
- BTech Pani Puri Wali’ Uses Thar SUV To Tow Cart, Anand Mahindra Reacts; Tapsi Upadhyay, 22, started her business journey with a small cart in Tilak Nagar, Delhi
- 3 Indian-Origin Young Scientists Recognised In UK; The recipients, including Professors Rahul R Nair, Mehul Malik, and Tanmay Bharat will be honoured at a black-tie gala dinner and award ceremony
- ISRO’s Moon Moment to Shine at Republic Day Parade with Tableau, 8 Women Scientists behind Chandrayaan-3; India To Boost Ties With France With Emmanuel Macron As R-Day Chief Guest; In Jaipur, Macron To Explore Pink City’s Living Past
- India Tells UN Israel-Hamas War Directly Affecting Its Economic Interests; Halts India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor; Hamas Rejects Israel Proposal Allowing its Leaders to Leave Gaza in Exchange for Stopping War
- Justice Prasanna B Varale appointed SC judge, top court attains full strength; Once Justice Varale takes oath, the top court will attain its full strength of 34 judges, including CJI
- An alert RPF staff swiftly reacted as a 36-year-old man stumbled dangerously close to a moving train while attempting to board it at Vasai Road Station
- Manipur’s Meitei MLAs, MPs reach Kangla Fort in response to ‘summons’ by radical group Arambai Tenggol
- SC questions Union Govt stance on AMU minority status: ‘How can you not accept an amendment by Parliament
- DGCA Imposes Rs 1.1Cr Fine on Air India For Safety Norms Violation on “certain long-range terrain critical routes; ISRO’s Moon Moment to Shine at Republic Day Parade with Tableau, 8 Women Scientists behind Chandrayaan-3
- Powered by innovative drugs, pharma industry can be worth $200 billion by 2030, says Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw; Nearly half of healthcare, pharma cos set to implement Gen AI solution in one year, says EY Report; Siemens Healthineers, IISc opens AI lab for precision medicine
- India on course to become main driver of incremental oil use by 2030; Brent below $80/bbl, is the time ripe for Govt to cut fuel prices before elections?
- Amara Raja aims to start operating giga factory before end of 2025; Maruti Suzuki eyes policy continuity in Interim Budget with focus on PLI and FAME schemes; Govt invites bids for setting up ACC units under PLI scheme for battery storage; Govt begins re-auction for 10 GWh of battery PLI; Tesla plans to build new electric vehicles in mid-2025
- Profit margins of Roger Federer’s On’s running shoes are causing a stir in their Swiss homeland over the difference between their sales price in Switzerland and the production cost in Vietnam
- A rare, venomous centipede has been discovered in Nottinghamshire, England, for the first time. The discovery was made at the home of University of Leicester academic Dr Richard Jones
- UK Woman Wants Amputation After “Simple” Leg Scratch Leads To 55 Surgeries; When Drs discovered that Ms Milton’s wound was resistant to antibiotics, it triggered the first of 55 surgeries she would have for her infected leg
- Baby Nicknamed “McFlurry” After Being Born In US McDonald’s Parking Lot; There were other choices for the name including “Mickey D’s,” “McBaby,” and “Small Fry.”
- Hazard Remains High”: NASA Captures New Fissures Spewing Lava In Iceland; posted map of the region on X that shows heat emanating from the fractured land surface, detected by thermal infrared sensor aboard its Landsat 9 satellite
- Netflix experienced a surge in new sign-ups towards the end of 2023, as users, prompted by its efforts to curb password sharing, opted to create individual accounts; Disney Star faces unusual fallout: A potential $2-billion downgrade by Reliance amidst Zee-Sony turmoil
- North Korea’s New Posters Show Heavy Tanks Crushing South Koreans; comes after the speech made by Kim Jong Un about preparing for war and declaring South Korea as his country’s principal enemy
- NATO began its biggest military exercise since the Cold War with a US warship leaving the US for transit across the Atlantic to alliance territory in Europe
- Somebody Tell CIA”: Moscow Mocks US For Posting Video To Recruit Russian Spies On X; Russian Plane with 65 Prisoners Of War Crashes near Ukraine, All Dead; plane crashed in the Belgorod region of Russia, which borders Ukraine
- 6-time World Champion and 2012 Olympic medallist Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom announced her retirement from boxing. Cites Age Limit
- Today’s Word – Gaminesque – Playful; impish; boyish
