NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 31 Jan – 5 Mins read
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- Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, 2nd Indian to go to space after Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma’s journey on board the Soyuz T-11 in April 1984, will take on the role of pilot on the Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4
- Top Naga Body Holds Tripartite Talks On Rollback Of 7 New Districts In Manipur; Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma Rules Out Uniform Civil Code implementation
- Gujarat High Court Chief Justice’s iPhones Get Stolen At Wedding, Case Filed; incident took place at Foothill Garden on New Masuri Road; even after search by local police nothing found
- Maha Kumbh: 15 Tents Burnt In Fire, None Hurt; Stampede: Some Reunited With Family, Many Still Unaccounted For; Overcrowded Trains, No Place To Stand; 3-Member Judicial Commission Set Up To Probe Stampede; Man Earns Rs 40,000 By Selling ‘Datun’ At Mela, Credits Girlfriend
- No Survivors In US Plane-Helicopter Crash, 28 Bodies Recovered From River; Trump Blames “Diversity Policies” Under Obama, Biden After Chopper-Plane Crash; FBI Pick Kash Patel To Be Grilled Over Promise To Persecute Trump’s Foes
- Stranded Astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore Take First Spacewalk After 8 Months; Here we go,” Mr Wilmore remarked as he exited the station, 420KMs above Earth
- OpenAI Seeking $40BN In New Fundraising Round; Voltas battling talent exodus amid office relocation, job title changes; Whirlpool plans to pare stake by over half in Indian arm; Nokia India Dec Qrtr sales up 22% at Rs 4,177Cr; Gold trade slumps ahead of Budget & Trump tariffs
- Civil nuclear energy generation may come under Power Ministry; Birla Cotton Mills in Delhi’s Kamla Nagar to be redeveloped into a residential-led mixed-use project; India Inc feels need to relook choices on AI, hiring, sustainability
- Irdai caps health insurance premium hikes for senior citizens at 10 pc per annum; Garuda Aerospace to invest Rs 100Cr to develop Drone City in Andhra; RINL replays overdue loans, comes out of special mention status; JSW Energy revises capex to Rs 10,000Cr in FY ’25
- Sirius Airlines in discussions with Textron Aviation to acquire 20 Cessna aircraft for $600MN; Air India enters into codeshare partnership with Kenya Airways; TDAST stays Trai penalties on telcos over spam menace; Five Coal India arms, including SECL miss production target for Apr-Dec
- Dream Of The Desert’: Saudi Arabia’s First Luxury Train Unveiled – 1,300KMs route, utilising existing railway lines, epart from Riyadh to Al Qurayyat, Jordan border; inaugural by end 2026
- Trump’s Latest Order To “Combat Antisemitism” Targets Pro-Palestine Visa Holders; Syria’s New Leader Pledges “National Dialogue Conference; Israel Frees Palestinians After ‘Guarantees On Safe Hostage Return’, Slams Hamas For ‘Shocking’ Swap; Gaza internal checkpoint to be staffed by US private armed contractors
- Iraqi Man Salwan Momika Who Carried Out Quran Burnings Killed, Sweden PM Suspects Foreign Power; 5 arrested
- Today’s Word – Capricious – Given to sudden, unaccountable changes of behavior
