NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 17 Dec – 5 Mins read
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- A meagre 28% of the urban wastewater and sewage generated in India undergoes treatment while the rest flows directly into rivers, lakes and land
- GRAP-4 Restrictions Reimposed In Delhi As Air Quality Dips To ‘Severe+’; Delhi Civic Body To Install Mist Sprayers On Electric Poles To Fight Air Pollution
- World’s Largest Iceberg A23a Breaks Free, Drifts In The Southern Ocean; roughly double size of Greater London and weighs approximately one trillion tonnes, broke off from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986
- One Nation, One Election’ Bill To Be Introduced In Lok Sabha; Elections simultaneously and was dubbed as a “game changer” by ex-President Ram Nath Kovind
- 12 Years After Nirbhaya Case, Her Mother Says Women Still Unsafe In India- made emotional speech at first National Convention on Prevention of Violence Against Women and Children
- Consuming drugs is “not cool” at all, observed SC, adding that substance abuse in India cuts across groups, communities, profits from it are channeled to support terrorism & violence
- India’s cleanest city Indore, which now aspires to be beggar-free, has decided to file police case on those who give money to beggars
- Speed Limit Reduced On Noida, Yamuna Expressways, Violators To Be Fined; For the light vehicles – 75Km/h; Heavy vehicles – 60Km/h; Tech firms say using centralised blockchain to control spam impossible for OTTs
- Indian Oil aims to raise Rs 15,000Cr via debt; NHPC, BEML partner to develop desilting and dredging solutions for hydro power plants; DGTR probing alleged jump in steel imports for safeguard duty; to consult MSMEs as well
- CAG: DMRC faces Rs 15.54Cr shortfall in recovery due to poor quality of work by contractor; Bad loans of peer-to-peer lenders more than double to Rs 1,163Cr in FY24; Qatar agrees five-year LNG supply deal with India’s GAIL
- Govt says it generally refrains from regulating airfares but remains vigilant; IndiGo to connect 4 more US cities through Turkish Airlines codeshare; Bavarian Nordic inks Mpox vaccine deal with Serum Institute; Zydus exits investment in Mylab Discovery Solutions
- Germany’s centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote after weeks of turmoil, setting Europe’s biggest economy on the path to early elections on Feb 23
- Russia’s “Starlink Killer” Might Become A Nightmare For Ukraine, Elon Musk; 30 North Korean Soldiers Killed, Wounded In Russia’s Kursk Region; ‘Russia Won’t Retreat From Red Lines’ Putin Claims Advantage In Ukraine, ‘189 settlements Liberated’
- Syria In Hands Of Terrorism”: Assad’s First Statement From Russia; Israel Will Double Population In Golan Heights After Fall Of Syria’s Assad; ‘Within Days…’ Hamas Says Gaza Ceasefire-Hostage Deal ‘Closer Than Ever’ As Netanyahu Dials Trump; Israel strikes missile depots, air defences in Syria’s Tartous region
- A viper with scales that look like eyelashes and a leaf-nosed bat are among dozens of new species identified in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region last year
- ‘Costly Political Gimmicks’: Big Setback For Trudeau As His Deputy PM Freeland Resigns as Trudeau deals with declining popularity
- Stop Whitewashing Mistakes, Turn The Knife Inward’: Xi Jinping’s Message To CCP On Corruption
- ‘Exceptional’ Cyclone Chido Rips Through France’s Mayotte, Toll May Be In Thousands; major damage to airport and cut off electricity, water and communication
- Today’s Word – Kaleidoscopic – Made up of a complex mix of elements
