Daily Curated News – 439

December 9, 2024 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 9 Dec – 5 Mins read
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  1. Financial institutions double down on more checks for tech partners; Reverse flip in cart, Flipkart plans IPO delivery in 12-15 months; Satellite imagery help banks assess farmers’ income, repayment capacity
  2. Banks unlikely to offer higher deposit rates after CRR cut, Restaurants body cautions members of aggregator disruption in dine-in space; Religare’s Rashmi Saluja 7th highest-paid CEO at over ₹68Cr in FY24
  3. Luxury hits a high: Gurgaon apartment sold for nearly Rs 2 lakh per sq ft; J&J hip implant victims may soon get compensation; Laurus Labs biotech unit raises Rs 120Cr from Eight Roads Ventures
  4. Smoke emanates from electric scooter, Bajaj Auto says incident being probed; Khorlochhu Hydropower Project in Bhutan to commission in 2029; Morgan Stanley, HSBC cut oil supply forecast, predict $70 Brent after OPEC decision
  5. ITC to increase FPOs to 4,000 in next 4 years linking a crore farmers, scale up MAARS ecosystem; Soap, home insecticides segments hit, Godrej Consumer Products expects flattish volume growth in India sales in Q3
  6. ITC scales up cultivation of medicinal, aromatic plants; India, EU officials may meet in March to clear FTA logjam; Eye on cybersecurity, PSBs told to conduct hackathons annually
  7. Celebrations, Gunfire In Damascus After Syrian Opposition Fighters Reach Capital; Assad’s Flight Out of Damascus Crashes? IL-76 ‘Carrying’ Syria Prez ‘Goes Off Radar’ Near Al-Suwayri; Ousted Assad, Family In Moscow, Granted Asylum
  8. Farmers’ Protest: PIL Filed In SC Seeking Removal Of Blockades On Punjab Highways; Farmers Suspend March To Delhi After Tear Gas Clash With Haryana Security | To Continue Later
  9. Rain Hits Parts Of Delhi-NCR, IMD Predicts More Showers Expected In Isolated AreasIn Decades, Shimla Sees Season’s First Snowfall In Early Dec
  10. Israel Strikes Damascus Security Buildings After Rebels Seize Capital; Directed IDF To Seize Buffer Zone’: Netanyahu After Fall Of Assad Regime In Syria
  11. Trump Calls For ‘Immediate Ceasefire’ In Ukraine After Meeting Zelenskyy In Paris; Trump says he plans to end US ‘Birthright Citizenship’ on his first day in office; Aims To Deport All Immigrants In The US Illegally
  12. Two policemen killed in J-K’s Udhampur, initial probe points to murder-suicide; Search operation underway after villagers report suspicious movement in J-K’s Kathua; Maoists murder Chhattisgarh woman, claim she tipped off Telangana forces who killed 7 Naxals last week
  13. Japan introduced a futuristic ‘human washing machine,’ an AI-powered device capable of washing and drying people within 15 mins
  14. New Zealand’s International Student Enrollments Grow – rising 24% year-on-year,, India Leads
  15. Lewis Hamilton ended his glorious 12-year spell at Mercedes with cheers and tears after finishing a rousing 4th from starting 16th in Abu Dhabi GP
  16. India-Bound MG ZS Hybrid Bags 4 Star Safety Rating In Euro NCAP Test; Bajaj To Launch New Chetak Electric Scooter On Dec 20; Mahindra BE 6E Temporarily Renamed To BE 6, Amidst IndiGo Lawsuit
  17. Today’s Word – Farrago – Confused mixture; a hodgepodge