NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 11 May – 5 Mins read
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- IPL 2023: MS Dhoni’s CSK Notch 27-Run Victory, Dent DC’s Playoff Hopes; “Grudges, Anger, Negativity”: Kohli’s New Post Gives Rise To Speculation
- US Met Museum to examine the provenance of “several hundred or more” objects that were possibly stolen from their country of origin, and then return them where necessary
- Union Govt Yet To Accept Report That Calls For Diesel Vehicle Ban By 2027 in cities with over 10 lakh population and switch to electric and gas-fuelled vehicles by 2027; Only Electric Bike-Taxis to Be Permitted in Delhi Under Cab Aggregator Scheme
- Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan Recommended for Inclusion in UNESCO World Heritage List
- Manipur Violence: Displaced People in Churachandpur Find Safe Passage; Opposition Calls for More Action
- Karnataka Exit Polls: 72% voting Advantage Congress, But Hung Verdict Not Ruled Out; 7 of 10 predicted hung assembly making Kumaraswamy as King Maker; 2 predicted for Congress, one for BJP
- Indian Boxers Achieve Major First, Assured Of Three Medals At 2023 Men’s World Champ; Deepak Bhoria (51kg) and Mohammed Hussamudin (57kg) registered contrasting wins to advance to SF
- Eknath Shinde’s Job At Stake In SC Verdict Today; will decide whether Maha CM, 15 other MLAs should be disqualified for revolting against Uddhav Thackeray in June 2022
- Heatwave in South Bengal Till May 12, No Respite from Formation of Cyclone ‘Mocha’ as Mercury Set to Rise
- Five More Vande Bharats Expected by End of June; Puri-Howrah Train to be Launched Next Week
- US Boy, 8, Survives Two Days Alone In Wilderness; survived by eating snow and hiding beneath a log for shelter; got lost while gathering firewood near his family’s campsite
- A loud sound was heard near the Golden Temple in Amritsar in the early hours today; Police, forensic team members rushed to the site of the incident and the probe is currently underway
- Spotify Removes Many AI-Generated Songs After Universal Music Noted Suspicious Bot Activities; Microsoft-Activision Deal Likely to Reach Final Decision in EU by May 15
- NCLT’s Go First ruling may dent India’s image among global lessors; will also increase India’s risk profile, resulting in lessors charging higher risk premiums
- Supreme Court upholds ₹278Cr award in Reliance Infra’s favour; Star Cement, Assam inks MoU for investment worth Rs 1,400Cr
- Telcos to push DoT, Trai to make OTTs share cost of 5G network infra; BSNL, private telcos object to Trai’s LSA-level audits
- NARCL offers to buy Rs 1,100Cr loans of Parenteral Drugs; India to seek pharma IPR waiver for future pandemics; Sanofi India board OKs demerger of consumer health business
- SCO countries adopt draft plan for interaction between their railway administrations; Customs holds 800 containers of heavy melting scrap across key ports
- Green Port policy launched to catalyse carbon reduction; India eyes green hydrogen bunkering at major ports by 2035; Scrapping of vehicles will reduce metals and rubber import: Nitin Gadkar; GAIL plans $4.9 billion ethane cracker in West India
- Microsoft To Cancel Salary Hikes, Cut Budget For Bonuses This Year; would let go of 10,000 workers; Google Introduces Search Generative Experience to Rival Microsoft Bing’s AI; Opened To 180 Countries
- Pak: Khan’s Supporters Attack Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif’s House; Close Aide Fawad Chaudhry Arrested Amid Protests; military asserted that no one will be allowed to take the law into their own hands; India Closely Watching As Protests Intensify
- China has objected to a proposal by India to blacklist senior Pakistan-based Jaish-e Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar at UNSC
- Russia Restores Visa-free Access for Georgians, Lifts Flight Ban; Ukraine War Will Increasingly Pit Quantity Against Quality, NATO Official Says; ‘2 km Russian Retreat In Bakhmut’, Putin ‘Denounces’ Armed Treaty, Czech Fighter Jets for Ukraine?; Restores Visa-free Access for Georgians, Lifts Flight Ban
- Uber Launches App-Based Flight Booking Feature for International and Domestic Travel in the UK; already offers train booking
- Cease-Fire Efforts Falter as Rockets Fly: Tensions Rise in Israel-Palestine Standoff; killed 23 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians
- BCCI Could Earn USD 1.15 Billion in Revenue Share from ICC During 2023-2027 Cycle
- Today’s Word – Nariform – Shaped like the nostrils or like the human nose
