NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 2 Aug – 5 Mins read
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- ‘Filing its first chargesheet in the NEET-UG paper leak case CBI named 13 people, including four candidates, a junior engineer and two kingpins
- Kerala Landslide Deaths Rise To 291, Nearly 200 Still Missing; Halfway Through Monsoon, One-Fourth Of India Faces Rain Deficit; 5 Killed, 50 Missing Amid Cloudbursts In Himachal; India May Record Above-Normal Rainfall In Aug, Sep; 106% of long-period avg of 422.8 mm
- Dark tourism gained global attention in recent years, partly thanks to TV shows like Chernobyl and The Dark Tourist – Kerala Police Has Warned Against it; Kerala Restricts Scientific Community From Sharing Reports On Wayanad With Media
- 51 Chandipura Virus Cases Reported In Gujarat, Health Ministry On High Alert
- 2.08% or ₹ 7,409Cr of withdrawn ₹ 2,000 banknotes not yet been returned to RBI, about ten months after the deadline to deposit or exchange them at bank branches were over; GST Collection In July 2024 Rises 10.3% To Rs 1.82 Lakh Crore
- 6 Delhi Weather Stations Record Over 100 MM Rainfall In 1 Day; Flooding At Jaipur SMS Hospital Raises Alarm Among Patients; Heavy Overnight Rain in Uttarakhand Triggers Landslides, Waterlogging; July Becomes China’s Hottest Month On Record Since 1961
- Lt General Sadhna Saxena Nair has become the first woman to be appointed the Director General of Medical Services
- Not Only Cheated But Snatched Rights Of Eligible Students’: Delhi Court Rejects Sacked IAS Trainee Puja Khedkar’s Anticipatory Bail Plea
- We Want To Go Home’: Manipur’s Displaced People Protest, Cops Take Action; Meitei, Hmar Representatives Meet In Manipur’s Jiribam, Agree To Bring Normalcy
- Jaypee Group taps global credit funds for Rs 10k crore to bail out flagship firm; Trai calls up telcos for data on calls made below radar; Railway Board constitutes panel to examine 2016 report on work conditions of running staff; MTNL seeks Rs 1,151.65 cr for sovereign guarantee bonds interest this fiscal
- Indian banks allocate only 5% revenue on IT spends; UPI clocks Rs 20 lakh crore for the third straight month in July; NPCI connectivity with C-Edge Technologies re-established; Passenger vehicle sales drop for first time in 2.5 years; India’s power consumption rises 3.5% to 145.40 billion units in July
- Lack of understanding of the industry’s operating model – NASSCOM Backs Infosys After ₹ 32,000Cr GST Notice; OpenAI May Post $5BN Loss This Year, Run Out Of Cash In 12 Months; Oil firms hike ATF price by 2%, commercial LPG up Rs 6.5 per cylinder; Sanofi gets drug regulator nod to market RSV therapy in India
- Air India Cancels Flight To Israel’s Tel Aviv, Cites Operational Reasons; DDoS Cyberattack Cripples Microsoft Azure Services Worldwide, Starbucks, Minecraft, UK Govt Impacted
- Blinken Urges End To “Escalatory Actions” For All Parties In Middle East; Mohammed Deif, Hamas Military Wing Chief Confirmed Dead By Israel; Iran Holds Funeral For Hamas Chief Haniyeh, Calls For “Revenge” On Israel; 2 Al Jazeera Journalists Killed In Israeli Strike On Gaza
- Trump Loses Appeal Of Gag Order In Hush Money Criminal Case; Russia Begins 3rd Stage Of Non-Strategic Nuclear Exercises; Largest Prisoner Swap Since Cold War Between US, Russia Takes Place In Turkey, Biden Hails ‘Feat Of Diplomacy’
- Co-Pilot Faints On Lisbon-Bound Flight, Rare “Red Alert” Issued; which is an obligatory stop of operations as a safety precaution, as the medical situation developed
- Bangladesh Bans Radical Islamist Group Jamaat-e-Islami, Its Youth Wing For Violence During Student Protests
- Italian researchers have noted the first case of “virgin birth”, or reproduction without fertilisation, in an endangered shark species; Female Sharks Make Babies Alone
- Simply Using Smartphones’: UNGA Prez Lauds India’s Digital Revolution For Lifting 800 Million Out Of Poverty
- Today’s Word – Hapless – Unfortunate.
