NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 19 August – 5 Mins read
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- Chandrayaan-3 Lander A Step Closer To Moon, Key Manoeuvre A Success; Lander Vikram Sends First Pics Of Moon After Detaching From Spacecraft; Completes 1st deboosting Operation, Health Normal; “Can’t Have Frugal Engineering Alone, Need Bigger Rockets” says Ex-ISRO Chief
- 12% Of Sitting Rajya Sabha Members Billionaires; Out of the 225 Rajya Sabha sitting MPs analysed, 75 (33%) have declared criminal cases against themselves
- Manipur CM: “Restoration Of Peace, Normalcy In Manipur Is Paramount”; Seeks Dist Officials’ Report On Firearms Display At I-Day Event; Violence After 2 Weeks Of Peace, 3 Killed In Ukhrul Dist; On Kuki MLAs’ Demand For Tribal Districts CM says In a democracy, everyone is entitled to speak freely
- Lashkar Unit Busted In J&K, 8 Terrorists Arrested With Weapons involved in cross-border smuggling of arms and ammunition at the behest of their Pakistani handlers
- 12 Houses Damaged After Massive Landslide Hits Village In Uttarakhand; Himachal Pradesh Declared As ‘Natural Calamity Affected Area’; Rains to Continue in U’khand
- RBI Instructs Bank To Provide Borrowers Option of switching over to a fixed rate at the time of reset of interest rates
- Dust particles from river deltas can more potently influence ice formation in clouds than those from deserts, researchers have found
- Shriram Housing Finance eyes Rs 30,000 crore AUM by FY26; Competition Commission of India slaps Rs 40 lakh on Axis Bank; RBI guidelines to banks on loan charges: ‘Allow retail borrowers to switch between fixed & floating rates’
- NTPC starts trial run of hydrogen bus in Leh; NLC India inks pact to supply 300 MW solar power to Rajasthan; Nepal to export 10,000 MW power to India in next 10 years says its PM
- SpiceJet questions maintainability of Wilmington’s insolvency plea; NCLAT asks JKC to file an affidavit for extension; JKC says will deposit Rs 100Cr by Aug 31; Jalan Kalrock Consortium seeks more time to pay Rs 350Cr to Jet Airways’ lenders; Chennai-Bengaluru train travel to get faster as Railways approves speed increase to 130 kmph
- Mahindra to inspect over 1 lakh units of XUVs for potential wiring issues; Audi launches Q8 e-tron and Q8 Sportback e-tron electric SUVs in India with over 500 KM range; M&M gets Rs 14.3 lakh penalty notice for incorrect input tax credit claim by erstwhile arm
- Common Thread in Murders of Dabholkar, Pansare, Lankesh & Kalburgi?” Supreme Court Asks CBI
- SC: what was the harm if a person provided the details of caste or sub-caste during the Bihar caste survey when an individual’s data was not going to be published by the state
- Prabal, India’s first long-range revolver, will be launched; Manufactured by Advanced Weapons and Equipment India (AWEIL), revolver has a firing range of up to 50 metres; twice range of revolvers available on the market
- Vistara Flight Delayed For 8 Hours At Delhi Airport Over “3 Bombs” Call; Bomb threat assessment committee declared the call, received at 7:38 am, non-specific or hoax at 2:15 pm
- Over 3.5 Million People Lost ‘Millionaire’ Status Globally In 2022; No of people with assets worth $1MN or more fell from 62.9MN at the end of 2021 to 59.4MN by the 2022 end
- As UK Births Hit 20-Year Low, Indian-Born Parents Take Record Share; India overtook Romania as the most common country of birth of foreign new mothers, after a third of all third of residence visas were granted to Indian nationals
- Parts of India are bracing for more torrential rain, raising the risk of further causalities after natural calamities such as floods and lightning killed 2,000 people during the current monsoon season
- New Covid Variant Found In US, Israel, Denmark; potential impact of BA.2.86 is currently unknown; WHO classified the new variant as one under surveillance “due to large No (30+) of spike gene mutations it carries; Study finds Pfizer’s Updated Covid Shot Effective Against New Variant In Mice
- South Korean intelligence believes North Korea Could Test Missile Ahead Of US, South Korea, Japan Summit; US, Japan, South Korea Forge New Security Pledge to Address Threats in Pacific
- US: Fish Mysteriously Falls From The Sky, Causes Power Outage; When they investigated the cause, they discovered that a fish had landed on a transformer, causing it to explode
- Russia Targets Counteroffensive, Western Weapons At UN Meet, Ukraine Cites “Existential Battle”
- Pak Police Arrest 2 Main Suspects Involved in Attacks on Churches, Homes of Christians; Yasin Malik’s Wife Mushaal in Pak PMO A Face-Saver for ISI
- Clock Ticks On Military Action Against Niger Junta, Ecowas Says “Going In If Everything Else Fails”
- Jasprit Bumrah Shines On Return As India Beat Ireland by two runs via DLS method In Rain-Hit 1st T20I
- Today’s Word – Hamarchy – Govt by a cooperative body of parts
