NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 13 Jun – 5 Mins read
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- In A First In 75 Years, A Woman At Wheel Of Maharashtra State Bus; Madhavi Salve, MSRTC’s first woman driver is making waves
- Sheetal Devi, world’s only armless woman archer, will head into the World Championships, hoping to earn a quota for next year’s Paralympic Games in Paris
- China Asks Last Indian (PTI) Journalist To Leave This Month; India said that Chinese reporters had been operating in the country without any difficulty, but this was not the case for Indian journalists in China
- UAE-Based Odisha Man To Donate Lottery Money To Rail Crash Victims; portion of his 4 lakhs amount
- Bhopal: A massive fire has been on for over nine hours in the multi-storied Satpura Bhawan that houses various Govt Departments; Air Force Called In To Douse Fire Raging For Hours
- RBI: Banks Can Now Go For Compromise Settlement Of Wilful Defaults, Fraud Accounts In order to ensure maximum recovery from distressed assets
- Thousands Of Fish Wash Up Dead On US Beach After Being Starved Of Oxygen In Warm Water; warm water, which can’t hold as much oxygen as cooler water, was responsible for the death of so many fish
- Minister Says No CoWin Data Breach; CoWin app – a repository of COVID-19 vaccination data – “does not appear to be directly breached; Data accessed by bot from a threat actor database, which seems to have been populated with previously stolen data
- Wrestling Federation Polls On July 4, Indian Olympics Body Begins Process; appoints JK HC Former CJ Mahesh Mittal Kumar as the returning officer for the polls
- Several Tribal Groups Upset with Inclusion of Manipur Chief Minister in Peace Panel; blame CM for the violence perpetrated against them
- Cyclone Biparjoy: Red Alert For Gujarat on Thu; 12 NDRF Teams on Ground, Another 15 on Standby; At Review Meet, PM Modi Asks for Safe Evacuations, Maintenance of Essential Services; Orange alert for Odisha, coastal Andhra
- 1.48 Lakh Farmers Still Facing Cases Registered During Agitation Against Union Govt Farm Laws; Kisan mahapanchayat: Farmers block highway to Delhi again over sunflower MSP, release of BKU leaders
- Ayodhya Ram Temple Construction In Last Lap, Will Be Completed By Oct; temple will be consecrated in Jan 2024
- India GDP swells to $3.75 trillion from $2 trillion in a decade as it topples global biggies; India’s retail inflation in May eases to 25-month low of 4.25%; April’s IIP rises to 4.2%
- PTC Industries to spend ₹300 crore on capacity expansion; sees strong debut on NSE; India says plants using imported coal to operate at full capacity till Sep 2023
- Union Govt transfers Rs 1,18,280Cr in taxes to states; UP got highest amount in tax devolution at Rs 21,218CR, followed by Bihar at Rs 11,897Cr
- IndiGo co-founder’s family likely to offload up to 8% stake for Rs 7,500Cr next month; NCLT adjourns the Wilmington Trust insolvency plea against SpiceJet; Singapore Airlines appoints first female CFO; DGCA eases norms for Indian carriers to fly to new international destination
- Telcos play on international roaming battleground; All three have ramped up efforts to attract higher paying postpaid customers to increase ARPU in the absence of headline tariff hikes
- Mumbai Is Ranked Second Most Unfriendly City In the World; New York, Dublin, Copenhagen, Montreal and Manchester are also among the world’s top friendliest countries
- WhatsApp Testing Channel Notifier Feature for Beta Users in New Version Update; will let interested users get an alert from WhatsApp when the Channel feature is ready for them to join in their region
- Kim Jong Un Issues Secret Order As Suicides Skyrocket In North Korea; at the end of May that suicides were up about 40% compared to last year
- Philippines’ Mayon volcano spews lava down its slopes in gentle eruption, may have to quickly flee a violent and life-threatening explosion
- Silvio Berlusconi, Former PM Who Reshaped Italy’s Politics, Dies at 86; Self-made Billionaire Who Brought Burlesque to Italian Politics
- Pakistan’s New Budget is a Dud as Political Instability Repels IMF, Saudi, UAE; (IMF) does not want to enter into a long-term programme without stable Govt
- Shubman Gill Gets Heavy Fine 115% For Contradicting Umpire’s Decision In Tweet. India 100%, Australia 80% Too Penalised; Rinku Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal May Play Ind vs WI T20Is; Pujara Likely To Be Axed From Tests
- Today’s Word – Tapinosis – Use of degrading or diminutive diction regarding a topic
