NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 20 Nov – 5 Mins read
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- At police chiefs’ meet, China’s growing presence, rise of cybercrime and security on agenda; Jaishankar meets Chinese MEA Wang Yi, says ‘noted progress in disengagement’ on India-China border
- G20 omission of fossil fuel phase-out annoys COP29;;India calls for equal access to climate resources for developing countries at COP29
- More Central forces heading to Manipur, Amit Shah gives directions to restore order; Kuki MLA Calls 10 “Militants” Killed In Manipur’s Jiribam Encounter “Martyrs
- Manipur Minister Builds Bunker, Puts Barbed Wire Around Home Amid Unrest; Hundreds Walk With Empty Coffins Demanding Justice For Those Killed In Violence
- Plan afoot for Singtel, Mittals to equalise direct stake in Bharti Airtel; Robust increase in ARPU of private telecom operators (QoQ) led by recent tariff hike;TCIL may sell 15% stake in Bharti Hexacom in two or more tranches
- In A First, Ukraine Hits Russia With Long-Range American Missile After Biden’s Approval; Putin Responds To Biden’s Missile Approval By Changing Nuclear Doctrine; North Korea Could Deploy 100,000 Soldiers To Russia, Zelensky Warns
- Air India Emergency Landing due to technical faults , Fliers Stuck For 3 Days In Phuket; diversion of a Paris-New Delhi Air India flight to Jaipur and the pilots’ refusal to fly further after completing their duty hours sparked chaos; sent by road
- NASA’s Viking Mission May Have Destroyed Martian Life with Water Experiments;,fatally overwhelmed by the addition of liquid water, as used in the Viking experiments
- Iran’s Enriched Uranium Stockpile Over 32 Times The Limit Set In 2015; total enriched uranium stockpile was estimated at 6,604.4KGs
- 2 Bikers Dead, Dozens Injured As Dense Smog Leads To Massive Pile-Ups In UP; Overall AQI at 492, Delhi’s air quality still ‘severe-plus’, several stations hit 500-mark: NCR residents look for second home in the hills to escape smog
- Transfer non-Hindus, ban political speeches, get better ghee for laddus – board that manages Lord Venkateswara temple takes spate of decisions; Gives Ultimatum To Non-Hindu Workers
- 182 Million Children In Low-, Middle-Income Nations Lack Access To Nurture
- 7-Month-Old In Dehradun Becomes Youngest Recipient Of Cochlear Implant In Uttarakhand; Shri Mahant Indresh Hospital helped 121 patients, most of them young children, regain their hearing
- IndiGo’s Bengaluru-Male flight faces tech issue; diverted to Kochi; TS Suites by TableSpace Targets Rs 800Cr revenue by 2025, to enter newer cities; JSW Steel emerges preferred bidder for Codli mineral block XII in Goa
- Tata Power, Bhutan’s Druk Green Power Corp to develop 5,000 MW clean energy projects; Ampin, CIP expand India green energy partnership; Delhi HC seeks response from Norway’s Pure E&P on ONGC’s Rs 252 crore arbitration award
- Corporate Infotech bags seven-year contract from ONGC for IT infra services; TotalEnergies, Oil India to collaborate on methane emissions detection; M&M, Skoda-VW India JV talks hit speed bump – unable to reach consensus on key issues
- Performance-linked pay revised for PSB brass;SBI asks RBI to let it run two lines of factoring operations;Only 0.8% of UPI transactions face ‘technical declines’ now: NPCI
- Indian Hotels aims to double portfolio, revenues by 2030; Marriages and shopping in Oct-Dec may spur 40% hike in spends, boost retail demand; South realtors like Prestige Group, Puravankara and Sobha eyeing Mumbai property market
- SpaceX Launches India’s 4,700-Kg GSAT-N2 Satellite Into Space; designed to provide data and internet services to remote regions and enable in-flight Internet connectivity across India
- Qatar Confirms Hamas Left Doha, Decision On Office Soon | ‘No Business As Usual’ US Warns Turkey; Hezbollah Rockets Pound Tel Aviv As Israel Strikes Beirut, US Says Lebanon Ceasefire In Grasp; Four UN peacekeepers injured by rocket fire in Lebanon
- Germany, Finland Hint at Russian ‘Sabotage’ As Sweden Says Second Sea Cable Cut in Baltic Sea; urge residents to be ready for war
- Bomb cyclone’ to bring rain, snow and winds to US northwest; Los Angeles to become an immigration ‘sanctuary – on a course to clash with President-elect Trump over immigration; Prosecutors back delaying Trump sentence until he leaves White House
- Today’s Word – Mellifluous – Sweet or musical
