NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 23 April – 5 Mins read
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- Study: Father’s Diet Can Affect Children’s Health, Behaviour, found male mice fed with high-fat diets more likely to have daughters with higher body fat and more biological indicators of metabolic disease
- Gold’s rise to all-time highs above $2,400/ounce in 2024 captivated global markets. China, world’s biggest producer and consumer is front & center of the extraordinary ascent
- In A First In India, 80,000 School Teachers To Get AI Training In Kerala – focuses on summarisation tech to simplify complex documents in PDFs, images, and videos and to generate concise summaries that retain crucial information and even create new content using AI tools
- EU World’s Fastest-Warming Continent, Temperatures Rising Twice The AVG Global Rate; By 2100, Some Destinations Will Lose Half Their Nice Weather Days; Spring is officially underway in North America and EU, crowds rushed to dine out on terraces, bike along flowery meadows and boat in parks; ISRO: 89% Expanding Glacial Lakes In Himalayas Grew More Than Twice In 38 Years
- Union Govt ordered food commissioners to collect samples of spices from all the manufacturing units after food regulators in Hong Kong and Singapore red-flagged a cancer-causing ingredient in MDH and Everest products
- LS Polls 2024: 12 Members Of Royal Families Contesting In Odisha Assembly/LS; Union Govt Forms Task Force Comprising ECI, NDMA, IMD Officials to Review Heavtwave Preparedness; Polls To Generate 9 Lakh Temporary Jobs; Andhra CM Jagan Assets Grew At 41% To ₹ 529 Cr In 5 Years; BJP Candidate In Gujarat’s Surat Wins Unopposed After Congress Pick Rejected, Others Withdraw Nomination
- Indian nationals can now be issued long-term, multi-entry Schengen visas valid for two years after having obtained and lawfully used two visas within the previous three years
- “Need Mature People”: Supreme Court Rejects Petition Seeking 3-Year Law Course; 5Yr LLB course is “working fine” and there was no need to tinker with it
- World Military Expenditure Hits All-Time High, India Among Top 5 Spenders; rose by 6.8% in 2023, the “steepest year-on-year increase since 2009
- SC told Special courts for trial of criminal cases related to Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly decided more than 2,000 cases in 2023
- Air India’s Iconic Boeing 747, Dubbed Queen Of Skies, Bows Out In Style; The pilots ferrying out the jet performed a “Wing Wave” – an aviation tradition reserved for retiring or concluding flights; Air India Aircraft Technicians Call Off Planned Strike, Avert Travel Chaos
- UP Minister Sanjay Nishad was allegedly attacked by some people when he was visiting a village in the Khalilabad Kotwali Police Station area to attend a wedding; confronted by a group of people with questions about his work and his MP son’s absence from the constituency
- Ex-VP Venkaiah Naidu, Mithun Chakraborty, Bindeshwar Pathak, Padma Subrahmanyam, Usha Uthup, Ram Naik, Sitaram Jindal Conferred with Padma Awards
- Domestic air traffic touches new single-day high; crosses 4.71 lakh passengers; Passenger traffic at Mumbai airport rises 16% to 52.8MN in FY24; SC issues notice to JKC and Jet Airways on SBI-led consortium’s petition challenging NCLAT’s March order
- TCS introduces 60% work from office attendance policy for variable pay allocation; Airtel simplifies international roaming to 184 countries, offers single pack for multiple destinations; CMS Info Systems to enter gold logistics, loan collection services; Govt seeks SC clarification on if it could allocate airwaves without competitive action to address ‘unanticipated’ priorities
- British Flights Face “Extremely Dangerous Russian Jamming; interrupts the satellite signals, including GPS, from reaching the aircraft and tricks the pilots into thinking they are somewhere they are not
- Five earthquakes struck Shoufeng Township, Hualien County, in eastern Taiwan on Monday within just 9 minutes; seismic activity occurred between 5:08 pm and 5:17 pm
- Palestine Family’s Barefoot Dash To Escape Israeli Bombs In Gaza; Israel’s Military Intelligence Chief Resigns Over October 7 Hamas Attacks; US Hints At Sanctioning Israeli Unit For Alleged Human Rights Violations; Israel’s Attack On Iran Targeted S-300 Air Defence System
- IPL 2024: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sandeep Sharma Guide RR to Huge Victory over MI; First In 17 Years! Yuzvendra Chahal Touches Major Milestone With 200th IPL Wicket
- Today’s Word – Palaeotypography – Early typography
