NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 4 Jun – 5 Mins read
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- R Praggnanandhaa stuns world champion Ding Liren at Norway Chess tournament
- UN Climate Head: World headed for 2.7° C warming, finance deal key; the second half of humanity’s climate journey will be even harder, and climate action will need to move at a faster pace
- Bengaluru received 111 mm rainfall on June 2, breaking the 133-year record for the highest ever rainfall in a single day in June; highest single-day rainfall in June was recorded on June 16, 1891 – 110.3 mm
- RBI: 97.82% of ₹ 2000 denomination banknotes returned to the banking system, ₹ 7,755Cr worth of the withdrawn notes are still with the public
- Man Assaults Cabin Crew, Tries To Open Plane’s Door Mid-air; Pilot Makes Emergency Landing At Mumbai Airport
- May 2024, saw marginal decline in domestic 2-wheeler sales, exports however were up; Volkswagen India to offer 6 airbags across all variants Taigun and Virtus models
- This Is A Joke: SC reacts sharply to grant of interim protection for an Andhra Pradesh MLA who was caught on camera destroying an EVM at a polling station in Palnadu Dist
- Polling amid Heatwave, around Weekends Could Have Been Avoided’: CEC’s Learnings from 2024 Lok Sabha Elections; 5 notices sent to BJP, 4 to Congress; Odisha Governor Dissolves State Assembly Ahead Of Poll Results
- NHAI’s revised toll rates (average of 5%) come to effect across highways; taking into accounts the changes in the wholesale price index (CPI)-based inflation; Out 855 user fee plazas; 675 are public-funded fee plazas, 180 are operated by concessionaires
- Mumbai PMLA Court: Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi Fled India Because Probe Agencies Didn’t Arrest On Time; SC dismisses Adisri Commercial’s appeal against insolvency proceedings on SREI Firms; Turkish inflation exceeds 75% but peak in sight
- Probe Team cites Serious negligence on the part of the operators of TRP game zone as well as officials of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) in Rajkot Game Zone Fire
- Cairn Oil & Gas targets net zero by 2030; OPEC+ extends major oil production cuts until 2025 to stabilise market; OPEC+ says goodbye to its $100-a-barrel oil quest; Tata Power Solar System launches nationwide solar power drive from Jodhpur
- Govt asks advertisers to submit self-declaration certificate from June 18; Embassy REIT raises Rs 1200 crore debt to acquire prime commercial asset in Chennai; India’s retail realty expansion to continue led by urbanization, consumption growth
- DMRC ensures cool commutes at 24 deg C, daily ridership hits 60.17 lakh in May; IndiGo to add 10 new destinations in FY25; Major ports cargo traffic rises over 3% to 72.04 million trillion in May; Day after 63-hour mega block, local train services hit on Central Railway
- In Telangana draft for gig workers, minimum wage, maternity benefits; policy will be valid for three years after which a review will be undertaken to determine its scale and impact
- UN Says 1 Million Forced To Flee Rafah, Live In “Unspeakable” Conditions; Netanyahu Views Biden’s Gaza Truce Plan As “Partial”, Says Israel; In A First, Hezbollah Launches Drones Squadron Towards Israeli Military Targets; Doubts Grow Over Gaza Truce Plan As Fighting Intensifies; Malnutrition Hits Children Of Gaza As Mothers Search For Milk
- Toyota chairman Akio Toyodo apologises for cheating on vehicle tests, halts production of 3 models – Corolla Fielder, Corolla Axio, Yaris Cross; wrongdoing does not affect safety of vehicles already on roads – use of inadequate or outdated data in collision tests, and incorrect testing of airbag inflation and rear-seat damage in crashes
- Labour leader Keir Starmer says he’ll keep the UK’s nuclear weapons in ‘age of insecurity’ seeking to dispel criticisms that his center-left Labour Party is soft on defense; In Blow To Rishi Sunak, UK Poll Predicts Biggest-Ever Win For Opposition Labour Party
- Nigerian unions shut down power grid, disrupt airlines with strike over Govt failure to agree a new minimum wage; airports shut down, striking workers had permitted none of its flights to operate
- Claudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico’s first female President in the country’s 200-year history; had b/w 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote; Sheinbaum’s Morena party also projected to hold majorities in both chambers of Congress
- Volcano Mt. Kanlaon in central Philippines erupted, spewing plumes of up to5KMs high, evacuations were not yet recommended for residents in the area
- Georgia signed controversial “foreign influence” legislation into law, prompting its pro-European opposition to vow far-reaching political reforms if they win Oct 2024- elections; Ukrainian Cop Freed From Russian Captivity After 2 Years, Was “Beaten, Abused”
- Today’s Word – Caesura – Vertical line in a text used to indicate a pause or prosodic break
