NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 15 March – 5 Mins read
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- Electoral Bonds Data From SBI Uploaded On ECI Website; Top 10 Donors To Political Parties contributed 4500Cr; SC To Hear EC’s Plea Seeking Modification Of March 11 Order today; top receivers – BJP – 46 %; TMC – 13 %; INC – 11 %; BRS – 9 %; BJD – 6%
- Unanimous Opinion, Need Simultaneous Polls – Under ‘One Nation, One Election’, Fresh Polls In Case Of Hung Parliament, Assembly – consulted 39 political parties, economists & ECI; , Shorter Term for State Govts Elected After 2024
- Rajasthan Man Balkishan Rasganiya Returns Bag With ₹ 10 Lakh He Found Near ATM, Gets Certificate From Police; The bank tracked down the man who owned the bag and his money was returned to him
- Ex-Bureaucrats 1988 batch Gyanesh Kumar (Kerala), Sukhbir Singh Sandhu (Uttrakhand) Appointed Election Commissioners – One a Harvard Postgrad Who Worked on Article 370 Move & Another a Doctor Who Oversaw Uttarakhand UCC Draft
- Mamata Banerjee Injured After Fall At Home, Receives Stitches On Forehead; later discharged from the hospital
- Aunts In China Donate Skin, Shave Heads To Save Badly Injured Niece, Nephew; The boy and the girl remained in coma for five days, suffered severe injuries, including respiratory burn, carbon monoxide poisoning and organ failure
- Study finds AI tech can accurately identify cases of health care-associated infections (HAI) even in complex clinical scenarios
- Vehicle Thefts In India Saw 2.5 Times Spike In 2023. Delhi Tops The Chart with theft every 14 minutes resulting in 105 cases each day in 2023
- Remarkable…”: Life Expectancy Rises By 9.1 Years Since 1990; progress in reducing gender inequality”, flagging a Gender Inequality Index of 0.437, better than global average
- Army Major, Soldiers Injured in Punjab Dhaba Brawl Over Food Bill; argument started when the owner allegedly declined payment through UPI, insisting on cash to avoid taxes; owner arrested
- After 663 days Petrol, Diesel Prices Cut By ₹ 2 Across India Ahead of LS Polls Schedule Announcement; Peak power demand up to 220 GW as temperatures rise; Kalpataru Projects International, arms bag orders worth Rs 2,445Cr
- IBM Layoffs: In 7-Minute Meeting, Tech Giant Announces Job Cuts From Two Divisions; Unicorns to add $1 trn to economy by 2030, generate 50 mn jobs: CII study
- Hyundai and Kia to recall nearly 170,000 EVs over software problem in South Korea; 4 states Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat & Karnataka account for over half of India’s renewable potential
- Paytm Gets Third-Party App Licence From Payments Authority; Indian banks halt silver imports as duty differential spurs private trade
- Delay of Up to 2 Hours at Mumbai Airport Due to Faulty Air Traffic Radar Automation System; faced more than 70 problems in June 2022
- TRAI: if a SIM card has been swapped or replaced, the mobile number associated with it won’t be allowed to be ported out to a different telco for a period of seven days
- Healthtech firm HiLabs raises $39 million from Eight Roads Ventures, others; Eris Lifesciences acquires Biocon Biologics domestic branded formulation business for Rs 1,242Cr
- Britain unveiled a new definition of extremism to counter a surge in hate crimes, raising some concerns it would inhibit free speech and unfairly target Muslim groups; UK Plans Ban On Foreign Govt Ownership Of British Media
- Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket, flew further and faster than ever before during its third test flight, although it was eventually lost as it re-entered the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean
- Israeli Fire Kills 6 Palestinians Awaiting Aid Trucks; US Senate Leader Slams Netanyahu On Gaza Death Toll, IDF Summons General For Rebuking Politicians; Spain, Egypt FMs Call for Palestinian State, More Aid to Gaza
- Will Be Far Superior”: Australian Billionaire Unveils New Plans For ‘Titanic II’ To Sail In 2027; RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner, collided with a massive iceberg and sank in less than three hours on April 15, 1912
- Putin Didn’t Threaten To Use Nukes, US Took Him Out Of Context says Russia; UK Says Air Force Plane With Minister Onboard Had Signal Jammed Near Russia; Seven More Nepalese Citizens Serving Russian Army Killed; Toll Touches 19
- China Blasts “US Gangster Logic” Over Bill to “Ban” Tiktok, Trump Defends App Over “Enemy” Facebook
Today’s Word – Eclipsareon – Astronomical toy used to show phenomena of solar and lunar eclipses
