NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 2 September – 5 Mins read
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- Aditya-L1 Sun Mission Payload To Send 1,440 Images Per Day; will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrangian Point 1 (L1), which is 1.5MN km from Earth in the direction of the Sun; Chandrayaan-3 Detects Sulphur, Other Elements On Moon; might hold clues to Moon’s composition and its volcanic past
- Indian-Origin 7-Year-Old Schoolgirl Wins UK PM’s Points Of Light Award; has the distinction of being the world’s youngest sustainability advocate
- Indian-Origin Engineer Amit Kshatriya To Head NASA’s New Moon To Mars Programme; will be responsible for programme planning and implementation for human missions to the Moon and Mars
- Indian Navy is looking at a repeat order for an Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) after inducting INS Vikrant and preparing a case for it
- New China Map Draws More Rejection, 4 Asian Countries Back India’s Call; violates its sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel Islands and jurisdiction over its waters; Nepal PM Prachanda to Raise China’s New Map Issue with Communist Party Leadership During Visit
- GST Collections In August 2023 Grow 11% To Rs 1.6 Lakh Cr; GST revenues during June 2023 quarter grew by more than 11 per cent. This translates into a tax; GDP ratio of more than 1.3%
- 450 Paramilitary Personnel Trained To Drive VIP Cars For G20 Summit; A fleet of both bullet-resistant and non bullet-resistant Audi, Mercedes, BMW and Hyundai Genesis hired/purchased by Union Govt to ferry 41 top foreign guests; Suggests G20 Nations To Cooperate To Deal With Fugitive Economic Offenders; 130,000 Security Personnel, Anti-Drone Systems To Defend
- Study Finds Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils Share Striking Genetic Similarity,; despite significant cultural and linguistic differences, the two groups intermingled in the past for several hundred years, which resulted in genetic affinity
- SC Orders Anti-Terror Agency To File Response On Activist Gautam Navlakha’s Request who is under house arrest at a Mumbai public library in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case
- A 22-year-old factory worker Collides With Robot charred to death after falling into a boiler at a factory in Haryana’s Bawal; Maratha Reservation Row: Protest Turns Violent in Maha’s Jalna; Police Fire Tear Gas, Many Injured
- Study Finds: Magic Mushroom Psychedelic Can Help Ease Major Depression; adds to a growing body of evidence that shows psychedelics can help patients open up and engage with therapists on subjects they often avoid or suppress
- Union Govt Forms Panel On ‘One Nation, One Election’, Ex President Ramnath Kovind To Head It
- Karnataka High Court Disqualifies HD Deve Gowda’s Grandson Prajwal Revanna As Lok Sabha MP (Hassan); indulged in election malpractice and did not declare his assets to EC
- 93% of Rs 2,000 notes back with banks: RBI; HDFC Bank against vote on Space Mantra’s Future Retail Ltd offer; Public sector banks tie up with Veefin Solutions for cloud-based MSME lending platform
- Demand for diesel drops 2.9%, petrol sales rise 0.4% in Aug; Govt cuts windfall tax on domestic crude, hikes duty on diesel, ATF; Govt covers 73 thermal plants under four rounds of rationalization of coal linkages
- Shakti Pumps gets Rs 350-crore work order under PM-KUSUM scheme; Rourkela plant supplies special grade steel for Indian space missions; Coal India output grows 13 pc to 52.3 MT in Aug; supply up 15 pc at 59 MT
- Jet Airways Founder Naresh Goyal Arrested in Rs 538 Cr Bank Fraud Case under PMLA; Antitrust regulator CCI clears merger of Air India and Vistara
- Content cost of Airtel, Vodafone Idea jumps 12.24 per cent to ₹1,513Cr; BSNL, MTNL sign pact for synergy of operations
- “Knives Are Coming Out”: Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy To Rivals After Surging Ahead
- Data Theft, Espionage To Cost Germany $224 Billion in 2023; damage will surpass 200 billion euro mark for the third consecutive year this year
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam, 66, who served as Singapore’s Deputy prime minister from 2011 to 2019, became Singapore’s third Indian-origin president
- Ukrainian Drone Escapes Russian Attack Helicopters After a Long Chase Over Crimea; Bomb Threats in Kyiv as Ukraine Children Go Back to School
- Top UK Diplomat Visits China For Thaw As MPs Call Beijing “Threat” & Support Taiwan Independence
- Japan Marks 100 Years Since ‘Great Kanto Quake’ that Killed 100,000+ People; PM commemorates the centennial of the 1923 Great Kanto Quake with a disaster drill, emphasizing earthquake preparedness in quake-prone Japan
- Today’s Word – Valentia – Device for drawing wine or beer out of a cask
