NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 8 July – 5 Mins read
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- Odisha Train Accident: 3 Railways Men Arrested – Arun Kumar Mahanta, Md Amir Khan, and Pappu Kumar charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and destruction of evidence
- India’s forex reserves up by $1.9BN to $595.1BN; Foreign currency assets (FCAs) rose by $2.5BN to $528BN
- Trained Only in Crowd Control, RAF Struggling with Manipur Deployment, Writes to State Police
- SC refused to extend the time for making payment to media baron Kalanidhi Maran and his Kal Airways in pursuance of an arbitral award of ₹ 578Cr
- Ajit Doval Holds Top Meet With UK Counterpart Over Khalistani Extremists; to take “strong public action” such as deportation
- Kerala Teenager Killed By Rare Brain Infection (primary amoebic meningoencephalitis) Caused By Free-Living Amoebae In Water; main symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, vomiting, and seizures
- Cipla Recalls 6 Batches Of Bronchospasm Treatment Inhalation Aerosol In US due to container defect
- Indian Railways Now Past 90% Electrification Milestone as ‘Zero Carbon Emission’ Mission on Fast Track; 59,096 route kilometres (RKM) out of the total 65,350 RKM; 3 Coaches of Falaknuma Express Catches Fire in Telangana; None Injured
- Byju’s Crisis Prompts India’s Top Venture Firm To Shift Strategy – Blume Ventures, which manages $625MN in assets, is cutting back on “frivolous” investments
- Samsung Electronics Reports 96% Drop In Q2 Profit as an ongoing chip glut drives large losses in the tech giant’s key business despite a supply cut
- Trai releases paper on whether to regulate OTTs; Accenture in talks with telcos, enterprises for 5G-driven digital enablement; Jio likely to sign 5G gear deal with Nokia for $1.7BN; India’s public WiFi coverage falls way short of target
- Reliance, Star await BCCI’s billion dollar tender amid intensifying fight for media rights; Reliance’s Viacom 18 bags media rights for USA’s Major League Cricket
- McDonald’s feels the tomato heat, many stores drop the veggie from menu; prices spiked across the country due to tight supplies caused by rainfall in many parts
- Motherson to acquire Bengaluru-based Rollon Hydraulics; JLR Q1 retail sales up 29% at 1,01,994 units; Toyota Kirloskar Motor hikes vehicle prices by 1%
- Jaiprakash Associates defaults on Rs 4,044Cr loans; After ‘Chotu’, ‘Munna’ to hit NE markets soon: says IndianOil; E20 fuel outlets will have pan-India presence by 2025, assures oil minister; RIL, Adani Total Gas planning plants for compressed biogas
- PM Modi flags off Gorakhpur-Lucknow, Jodhpur-Ahmedabad Vande Bharat trains now at 25; AAI signs deal with SITA, 43 airports to adopt cloud-based technologies for passenger, bag processing; Govt approves draft notification for mandating air conditioned truck cabins
- 1Stadia buys exclusive broadcast rights to FIFA events for Indian sub-continent; Priyanka Chopra’s Rs 2,000 crore ‘Citadel’ comes under scrutiny of Amazon CEO
- Kremlin Says Will “Closely Follow” Meet Between Zelensky, Turkey’s Erdogan to Push NATO Goals, Grain Deal; Ukraine Reports New Advances Near Bakhmut; Mystery Over Wagner Chief’s Exile, Russia Downplays Prigozhin’s Return But Unleashes Media Trial
- Janet Yellen, US Treasury Secretary, said a decoupling of the US and Chinese economies would be “virtually impossible” and said a ‘win-win’ scenario would be the best
- China To Ban Japanese Seafood Over Fukushima Water Release Plan; must bear all consequences of its action; “Negligible” Impact Of Water Release From Fukushima Plant says South Korea
- Philippine President wrote off $1.04BN in land-related debt owed by 50MN farmers, a move aimed at boosting food production
- Facebook Alters Fact-Checking Controls For US Users; FB says will give them more power over its algorithm but some analysts insist could benefit purveyors of misinformation
- Russian aircraft harassed American drones taking part in operations against IS jihadist group in Syri for 2nd time in 24 hours
- Wimbledon: Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka Cruise Into Third Round; Stefanos Tsitsipas Battles Back To Knock Andy Murray Out
- Today’s Word – Samaj – Hindu religious assembly; congregation of worshippers
