NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 13 Nov – 5 Mins read
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- ATC takes $1.2 bn hit in India exit deal with Brookfield; MTNL defaults on Rs 1,000Cr loan, Bank of India makes provision; Digital realty platform Blox acquires 11% in advisory firm Guardians for $12MN
- Indian Army gets P-7 parachute system, can airdrop loads of up to 9.5 tons; India successfully tests long range land attack missile off Odisha’s coast; Central armed forces to get first all-women battalion with over 1,000 personnel
- 8 injured, three critical in major explosion at Indian Oil plant in UP’s Mathura; occurred while restarting Atmospheric Vacuum Unit (AVU), leading to a sudden fire that severely affected workers in the vicinity
- Air India officially completes merger with Vistara, unifying under one brand; India agrees to liberalise air treaties with Vietnam and Uzbekistan; Hindalco to spend $4-5 bn on upstream expansion
- EV charging facility now available at every fifth petrol pump, but only 20% are fast chargers; OPEC again cuts 2024, 2025 oil demand growth forecasts; Indian Oil aims to finish expansion of Panipat, Gujarat, Barauni refineries by Dec 2025
- Pharma market sees 6.1% growth in October despite subdued volumes; Railways spends 61% of budgeted allocation till Oct via Rs 1.63 lakh crore capex; Lifting rice export curbs to help push agri shipments over USD 50 bn in FY25
- India imposes anti-dumping duty on chemical imported from China, Korea, Thailand; Infra, transport sector leaders expect growth in earnings, headcount in next 3 years; Industrial output expands 3.1% in Sep on base effect, festivals
- India’s fossil-based CO2 emissions to spike 4.6% in 2024; Globally, fossil-based CO2 emissions set to touch record high of 37.4BN tons this year, a rise of 0.8% from 2023; COP29: Small victory as nations approve new carbon market rules, standards
- Fake Aadhaar cards, printing machines found as ED raids 17 places in Jharkhand, Bengal under ‘Bangladeshi infiltration’ crackdown; Day after 10 militants killed in Manipur, two Meitei men found dead, six of family missing
- Germany sets date for snap elections on Feb 23 amid coalition breakdown; Explosion in Louisville leaves 11 people injured, shelter-in-place order issued for ‘hazardous materials incident
- Trump appoints Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to clean up US bureaucracy; to lead the Dept of Govt Efficiency (DOGE) together.; picks Ratcliffe as CIA director, Kash Patel misses out; picks Elise Stefanik as UN envoy
- Proposed law on assisted dying tabled in UK Parliament, leaves lawmakers split
- China Unveils Its Second 5th-Gen Fighter, Looks Exactly Like This US Jet; Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter is a twin-engine, single-seater supersonic jet developed for multirole missions
- Planet Uranus and its five largest moons may not be the cold, lifeless worlds scientists once believed. Instead, they could have hidden oceans and even the potential to support life
- Today’s Word – Felicitous – Pleasing and fortunate.
