Daily Curated News – E70

July 11, 2023 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 11 July – 5 Mins read

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  1. India Likely To Buy 26 Rafales, 3 Scorpene Subs During PM’s France Visit; Indian Navy will get 22 single-seated Rafale Marine aircraft along with four trainer aircraft
  2. Foxconn Dumps ₹ 1.5 Lakh Crore Vedanta Deal In Setback For India’s Chip Plan; Both have no prior semiconductor experience or technology, expected to source it from a tech partner; deadlocked talks to involve European chipmaker STMicroelectronics as a tech partner
  3. SC Refuses To Pause Union Govt Ordinance On Control Of Services; no freeze on executive order controlling the bureaucrats posted in Delhi
  4. ‘Like a Mirror’: Astronomers Identify Most Reflective Planet 260 Light Years From Earth; The planet reflects 80% of the light from its host star
  5. WhatsApp Lets Beta Testers Log on to WhatsApp Web Using Phone Number, Developing New Chat Filters Feature; Google Currently Testing New GBoard Feature That Can Recover Deleted Text
  6. After Book On “Ethnic Cleansing”, Manipur Asks Top Cop To File Case; SC on Manipur “We’ve Enormous Power, But cannot run law and order and it is the elected government’s job to do so
  7. Downpour In Rajasthan Bring Life To Standstill, Mount Abu Records 231 mm Rainfall; Amid Heavy Rain, Yamuna Crosses Warning Mark In Delhi; 4.9 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Jammu And Kashmir’s Doda
  8. Huge Chunk Of National Highway Collapses In Himachal Amid Heavy Rain; Bus Tips Over On Flooded Road, Rope, Crane Used To Rescue 27; : Yamuna Crosses Warning Level, Yellow Alert On; Gujarat Receives 10% Annual Rainfall in 6 Days
  9. Hyundai Launches Entry-Level SUV Exter At 6 Lakhs. It’s A Tata Punch Rival; Maruti becomes a leader in Rs 10-20 lakh segment with its new launches
  10. IIT-Guwahati develops framework to assess Knee Osteoarthritis severity; Aurobindo Pharma subsidiary enters pact with BioFactura for biosimilar ustekinumab
  11. IIM Sambalpur, recently welcomed its largest MBA batch, consisting of an impressive majority of 60% female students
  12. India’s power consumption grows by 4.4% to 139.23 BN units in June; HPCL gets bids to lease part of Chhara LNG terminal; Oil & Gas exploration: Govt receives 13 bids for 10 blocks; Mahindra & Mahindra in talks for Rs 5,000Cr EV push from British International, others
  13. RIL Shares Jump Near 4 Per Cent, Market Valuation Climbs ₹ 67,326 Cr; During the day, the index heavyweight stock jumped 4.53% to hit its 52-week high of ₹ 2,755
  14. Go First Airline Seeks Investor Interest As Part Of Insolvency Process; Jet Airways insolvency: Creditors say Jalan-Fritsch resolution plan unviable, unworkable
  15. Indian paints & coatings industry estimated to grow to Rs one lakh crore in next 5 years; Telecom companies want you to talk less as OTT gobbles up call, SMS revenue
  16. Putin Met Mercenary Chief 5 Days After Short-Lived Rebellion; Wagner commanders told Putin they were his soldiers and would continue to fight for him; Hurdle To Ukraine NATO Membership Dropped As Leaders Gather For Summit; “are set” to drop the Membership Action Plan required
  17. Head Of US Marine Corps Job Unfilled Due To Political Feud over abortion hampers the approval of scores of military nominees
  18. Thames Water announced a significant financial injection from shareholders that keeps Britain’s biggest supplier of the commodity afloat; New York Flood Alert: 1 Dead, Many Missing as US Sees Heavy Rains; Houses Washed Away, 13,000 Without Power
  19. Peru announced a 90-day national state of emergency in response to increase in the instances of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological condition which triggers immune system to assault nerves, occasionally paralysis
  20. Wimbledon Umpire Warns Crowd Against Opening Champagne Bottle During Match; one spectator popped the cork in the middle of a serve
  21. Wimbledon: Rybakina through to QF after teary-eyed Haddad Maia retires; Eubanks knocks Tsitsipas out; Sabalenka eases into QF; Djokovic ekes out hard-fought victory, Medvedev gets walkover to reach QF
  22. Today’s Word – Vaporiferous – Making steam or vapour