NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 8 February- 5 Mins read
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- Anand Mahindra Meets Couple That Inspired ’12th Fail’, Takes Autograph; The life of Manoj Sharma and Shraddha Joshi inspired the film, ’12th Fail’, which was a big success at the box office and gave the lead actor Vikrant Massey the Best Actor (Critics) Filmfare Award
- Jet Spray, Toilet Seat Cover Among Rs 1.2L Bathroom Fittings Stolen from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus
- Beware! Hackers use electric toothbrushes in massive cyber attack, orchestrate a distributed denial of service (DDoS); attack targeted a Swiss company and it resulted in a huge financial loss
- Singapore’s Biggest Bank DBS Cuts CEO’s Pay By Millions (30%) on Digital Banking Outage that saw payment and ATM transactions stalled across Singapore
- Govt: Extending the retirement age of SC & HC judges based on their performance may not be practical, will “further erode” Parliament’s powers and may result in “undue favouritism”
- UP: An 11-year-old boy who disappeared 22 years ago, has returned as an ascetic, seeking alms from his mother
- Uttarakhand First To Clear Uniform Civil Code Bill, Other States Line Up; Rajasthan wants to introduce a UCC bill in the next assembly session
- Energy storage segment attracts $9.2 bn funding via venture capital route in 2023; Petrobras in talks for projects with Gulf, Indian, Chinese firms; Indraprastha Gas Ltd plans to set up 19 compressed biogas plants; Servotech Power Systems in pact with Adani TotalEnergies for EV chargers supply
- UAE wealth fund plans $4-5 billion in investments via India’s new finance hub; Parliamentary panel recommends reduction in GST on insurance products; NARCL makes binding offers for over half a dozen accounts
- NITI Aayog bats for incentives for LNG-fuelled commercial vehicles; Yamaha brings FZ-X in new Chrome avatar, first 100 buyers to get Casio G-Shock watch; Govt to exclude 70 sizes, types of tyres from exemption list of mandatory quality control norms
- Tata Steel, South East Railway join hands to develop green infra; Vibhor Steel Tubes sets up unit in Odisha to scale up capacity to 3.41 lakh ton; GFCL EV Products to invest Rs 6,000 cr in next 4-5 yrs to ramp up production
- US Lawmakers Reject Proposal For $17.6BN Military Aid To Israel; Fate Of 6-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Unknown 8 Days After Getting Caught In Fighting; 5 Including Civilians Killed In Israeli Strikes On Syria; In War-Torn Gaza, Diapers and Baby Formula Are Hard to Find, Leaving Parents Desperate
- UN Agencies Seek $4.1 Billion to Help Civilians in Sudan, Refugees Who Fled the Country’s 10-month War
- 25 Killed In Twin Blasts Outside Pak Candidates’ Offices In Balochistan; In 1st incident, a powerful blast outside the office of independent candidate Asfandyar Khan Kakar in Pishin district killed 17 people and wounded 30
- President Mohamed Muizzu: by bolstering the defence capabilities of the Maldives, the country will soon reach a point where there is no “foreign” military presence
- Germany’s Lufthansa Cancels Hundreds of Flights as Its Ground Staff Strike for a Day at 5 Airports; 100,000 people would have to change their travel plans
- Russian Schools To Teach How To Survive Nuclear Attack, Use Kalashnikovs; The survival training will be part of a subject called “Fundamentals of Security and Defense of the Motherland
- Chinese Scientists Develop ”Game-Changing” AI-Enabled Spy Tech; to detect, track enemy signals with unparalleled speed, instantly decipher physical characteristics of these signals, and effectively suppress them
- Pod Of Orca Whales Trapped In Sea Of Ice Off Japan’s Coast, Officials Say They Have No Choice But To Wait
- Today’s Word – Umstroke – Circumference; edge
