NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 12 August – 5 Mins read
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- ISRO Successfully Conducts Parachute Deployment Tests For Gaganyaan Mission; Drogue parachutes are deployed to decrease speed and stabilise rapidly moving objects
- World Bank is mulling local currency lending in countries like India to help borrowers save on costs
- Massive Protests In Imphal Demand CBI Probe Into Alleged Gang-Rape; SC says mobs use sexual violence to send message of subordination, state bound to stop this
- Haryana Violence: 393 Held, 160 FIRs Registered; Suspension of Mobile Internet, SMS Service in Nuh Extended
- SC: Problem of hate speech is not good and nobody can accept it., Harmony and Comity Needed Between Communities
- Jharkhand: CRPF Jawan Killed, Another Injured in Encounter With Maoists in West Singhbhum
- Eris Variant Ineffective in India, Polio-like Model to Detect Pandemics Next Big Scientific Frontier: says Covid Panel Chief
- India Deploys Upgraded MiG-29 Fighter Jet Squadron At Srinagar To Handle Dual Threat from both the Pakistani and Chinese front
- Norwegian climber Kristin Harila, 37 who recently became fastest person to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks addressed controversy after critics accused her of walking over a dying sherpa to set her record; said she and her team “did everything we could for him at the time
- Medical Body’s New Rules Ban Doctors From Getting Gifts From Pharma Firms; their families must not receive any gifts, travel facilities, hospitality, cash or access to recreation under any pretext
- Delhi Police: enough evidence to put outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on trial in a case of alleged sexual harassment of women wrestlers
- SBI aims for 1 lakh Customer Service Points by March 2024; NCLT approves NARCL’s resolution plan for two Srei group firms
- Truecaller launches AI-led feature for answering calls; Indus touches 2,00,000 towers in 22 circles; Cheaper 5G handsets may keep mobile sales from falling in ’23’
- Digi Yatra facility to be launched at six more airports in Aug; SpiceJet defers Q4 FY23, Q1 FY24 results till Aug 14; Willis Lease Finance Corporation tells NCLT has the right to file a plea against Spicejet
- Motown Inc may get Rs 50,000cr fuel to drive green technology; IEA flags risk of higher oil prices, cuts 2024 demand view; Sterling and Wilson Renewable Energy bags order worth Rs 1,130Cr; India may see 1 million EVs being sold in the next five years
- “It’s Gone”: Hawaii Residents Find Nothing But Ashes In US Town Wildfires; 150-Year-Old Banyan Tree, Largest In US, Charred By Hawaii Wildfires
- Hospital doctors in England launched their latest walkout as Govt said their strike to demand 35% pay increase served “only to harm patients”
- US Judge Warns Trump Over “Inflammatory” Statements In 2020 Election Case; said she would not allow a “carnival atmosphere” at his eventual trial
- Explosions Heard In Ukraine’s Kyiv After Nationwide Air Raid Alert; 2 Russian Airports Suspend Flights Amid Surge In Ukrainian Drone Attacks; Ukraine “Downs Kinzhal” In Russian Missile Attack, Zelensky Fires “Corrupt” Military Draft Chiefs
- With No End In Sight, Sudan’s Civil War Enters 4th Month; Indians Advised To Leave Niger As Military Coup Triggers Violence; Niger Junta Refuses to Release Deposed Prez Bazoum’s Family, Blinken Irked
- 14,000 people evacuated in eastern Polish town of Lublin after a construction worker uncovered a massive unexploded 250KG bomb; military engineers can take the bomb away for neutralization
- Today’s Word – Absorbefacient- Causing or promoting absorption
