Daily Curated News – 385

July 12, 2024 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 12 Jul – 5 Mins read
Content Powered by M Peer Mohamed Sardhar

  1. Captain Avhilash Rawat, his crew of an oil tanker named among winners of the International Maritime Organisation 2024 Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea for their “extraordinary courage” shown in a Red Sea rescue mission
  2. CBI has arrested a man called Rakesh Ranjan, alias Rocky, who is believed to be the kingpin in the NEET paper leak case
  3. UN World Population Prospects: World’s population will peak in mid-2080s, growing over next 60 years from 8.2BN people now to 10.3BN in mid-2080s, and will return to 10.2BN by the end of the century
  4. EvolutionaryScale – New York based AI research company that focuses on biotech generated a novel protein using Protein Language Model (ProLLMs) that works on similar transformer architecture as that of ChatGPT
  5. Govt Forms Panel To Probe Disability Claims Made By Trainee IAS Officer; Non-Creamy Layer – ₹ 22Cr Assets – owns five plots of land and two apartments across Maharashtra; facing serious charges of impropriety & abuse of power
  6. Captain Anshuman Singh’s Parents Question “Next Of Kin” Rule, Demand Its Revision; In Law left their home and now receives most of the entitlements after their son’s death
  7. Gujarat: Railing Collapses As 1,800 Aspirants Turn Up For 10 Jobs; gathered, jostling to make their way inside the venue; crowd so dense that it pushed against a steel railing hard enough to make it give way, taking several people down with it
  8. 10% Quota, Age Relaxations For Ex-Agniveers, Say CISF, BSF Chiefs; 1st batch will get 5 years of relaxation while it will be 3 years afterwards; no physical efficiency test
  9. In A First, Judge From Manipur Recommended For Elevation To SC; Collegium recommends CJ of JK & Ladakh HC Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh, Acting CJ of Madras HC Mahadevan
  10. A SpiceJet employee was arrested after she slapped a male assistant sub inspector following an altercation over security screening at Jaipur Airport; SpiceJet alleged female employee was “subjected to inappropriate and unacceptable language by the CISF personnel
  11. Northwest Delhi’s Bawana Area Flooded As Water Breaches Canal From Haryana; Scores of whales washed ashore in a “mass stranding” in Scotland’s Orkney archipelago
  12. Space Regulator Nod Must From Next Year To Use Non-Indian Satellites; EPFO recovers ₹61 crore dues from SpiceJet; NCLT directs Go First to release four aircraft engines of ELF; Air India rolls out advanced baggage tracking for passengers
  13. Greenko arm cancels dollar bond issue, to tap bank loans; IRDAI puts Care Health Insurance on notice over ESOPs to Saluja; Acer ties up with Indkal Technologies to enter Indian phone market
  14. Israel Releases First Probe Into Its Security Failures During Hamas Attack; “Things Moving In Good Direction”: US On Gaza Ceasefire Talks; Erdogan Says US Complicit in War Crimes As 500-lb Bombs Ship to Israel, Hezbollah Drones Attack IDF
  15. UP’s sops for hybrid vehicles irk EV companies, add to industry’s June sob story; US to award $1.7BN to retool auto plants for EVs; Hindustan Zinc gets power supply from Serentica 180 MW solar project; Jaguar Land Rover to use Pirelli’s natural rubber tyres in sustainability
  16. World’s Largest Stegosaurus Skeleton Put On Auction, May Fetch $4-6MN; Named Apex, the giant skeleton – 11ft tall & 27ft long is billed as most complete & best-preserved stegosaurus specimen of its size
  17. WHO: Covid-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world; urged at-risk populations to keep up with their vaccinations against the disease
  18. Indians Travelling To Qatar Will Soon Be Able To Make UPI Payments; Banking Sector Witnessing A Decade-High Performance; Raids At Cooperative Society, Sahara Group In ₹ 24,000Cr Fraud Case; Sale Of Homes, Priced ₹ 10 Cr & Above, Up 8% In Mumbai
  19. Russia Adds Putin Critic Alexei Navalny’s Wife To List Of “Terrorists”; US Foiled Russian Plot To Assassinate Ukraine’s German Arms Supplier; China, Belarus Hold Army Drills Near NATO Border Amid Rising Tensions; NATO Begins Sending F-16 Jets To Ukraine, Vows $43BN Military Aid
  20. Powerful Tremor Shakes Coal Mine In Poland: 10 Miners Injured, Search On For Dozens Of Others; shaken about 1,200 metres underground
  21. Today’s Word – Macon – Smoked salted mutton