Daily Curated News – E32

June 1, 2023 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 01 Jun – 5 Mins read

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  1. Q4 GDP Growth Rises To 6.1% After Falling For Two Quarters; 4th Qrtr estimate beats the 4% growth clocked in the year-ago period; FY23 GDP Stands At 7.2%
  2. IOC says Treatment Of Indian Wrestlers Was “Very Disturbing”; “Wait For Probe To End”: Sports Minister To Wrestlers As Protests Intensify; Wrestling Body Chief’s Dare As Delhi Police Deletes #MeToo Case Update
  3. Study: AI Technologies Like ChatGPT ‘Drink’ Massive Amounts Of Water To Thrive; just to train GPT-3 alone required 700,301 litres of water
  4. China Is Drilling A 32,808-Feet-Deep Hole Into The Earth’s Crust; will penetrate 10+ continental strata, or layers of rock and reach the cretaceous system in the Earth’s crust; identify mineral and energy resources and help assess the risks of earthquakes and volcano eruptions
  5. Amit Shah Reviews Security, Meets Kuki, Meitei Communities; Manipur CM Appeals for Surrender of Looted Arms, Asks People Not to Block Roads
  6. Sri Lankan Airlines Denies Entry to 15-year-old Autistic Boy from Bengaluru, Calls Him ‘Threat’ to Fellow Passengers
  7. PLFI Terror-funding Case: NIA, Jharkhand Police Conduct Searches, Seize Arms, Ammunition; NIA Raids at 3 Locations in Kashmir Targets Newly Formed Terror Offshoots; Incriminating Material Seized
  8. Nathu La to be Connected by Rail: Sivok-Rangpo Project to be Extended for All-weather Access to China Border
  9. Cabinet Okays ₹ 1 Lakh Crore To Create “World’s Largest” Grain Storage Capacity in the cooperative sector to reduce crop damages and prevent distress sales by farmers, strengthening food security
  10. Civil Aviation Ministry Out With Draft Bill – make better provisions for regulation, control of the design, manufacture, possession, use, operation, sale, import and export of aircraft and for connected matters
  11. Union Govt Proposes To Sell Up To 3% Stake In Coal India Limited; Offer for Sale (OFS) will be open for retail and non-retail investors on June 1 and 2
  12. Russia Destroys Ukraine’s Last Warship, Kadyrov’s Revenge Threat, Putin Ally Says UK “Eternal Enemy”; Russia Evacuates Children from Border Villages as Situation ‘Alarming’
  13. Ola S1, S1 Pro E-Scooters Price Hiked After Cut in FAME II Subsidies; Renault crosses 9 lakh units of sales milestone in India; Toyota customers in Asia, Oceania face risk of data leak due to setting error
  14. Mobec Launches Doorstep EV Charging Solution; Service to Roll Out in Delhi-NCR Initially; ICRA sees power demand growth at 5-5.5% in FY24 vs 9.6% FY23
  15. Ford CEO says EV cost parity may not come until after 2030; Exponent Energy and Alt Mobility to finance 1000 Altigreen neEV Tez electric 3-wheelers; Germany’s NexWafe raises Rs 265Cr from RIL, Aramco Ventures and Athos Venture among others
  16. Go First’s lessors’ plea for plane deregistration shown as ‘rejected’ due to DGCA portal glitch; Railways’ 2-day chintan shivir to discuss improved efficiency; Deloitte flags Adani Ports’ transactions over insufficient disclosures, which the accounting firm said it was not independently able to verify
  17. Kotak Life insurance policyholders to get Rs 840Cr as participating bonus; Abrdn exits HDFC Life, sells entire stake for Rs 2,069Cr; India To Drive A Fifth Of Global Growth For Next Decade: Morgan Stanley Report Cites ‘10 Big Changes
  18. 10 Of Pablo Escobar’s Hippos To Be Airlifted To El Chapo’s Birthplace In Mexico; costing $500,000 and has been financed by conservationist Ernesto Zazueta
  19. NASA Panel Studying Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UFO Sightings to Hold First Public Meeting Ahead of Report
  20. China Launched ‘Smear Campaign’ Against Dalai Lama, Painted the Tibetan Leader as ‘Pedophile; Chinese Ship Detained in Malaysia for Stealing World War Relics from Sunken UK Battleships
  21. Blinken Urges Beijing ‘Open Lines of Communication’ after South China Sea Fighter Jet Incident
  22. ‘Fascinating and Terrifying’: Denmark PM Delivers Speech in Parliament Partly Written by ChatGPT
  23. Thailand Open: Kiran George Stuns Shi Yuqi; Saina Nehwal, Lakshya Sen, Satwik-Chirag Too Win, PV Sindhu Makes Early Exit; Badminton Could Allow Russians To Return From Ban
  24. Stefanos Tsitsipas Says ‘Strength Of Navy SEAL’ Needed To Win French Open; Fifth Seed Caroline Garcia Knocked Out By Anna Blinkova
  25. IPL 2023, Team of the Tournament: Best Playing XI of the Season Featuring Shubman Gill, Shami, Rashid, Siraj, Rinku, Cameron White and Led by Faf du Plessis
  26. Today’s Word – Idempotent – Quantity which does not change when squared