NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 21 July – 5 Mins read
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- ISRO Successfully Completes 4th Orbit-Raising Manoeuvre Of Chandrayaan-3; next firing is planned for July 25 between 2 pm and 3 pm; Gaganyaan Mission: ISRO Successfully Tests Service Module Propulsion System
- Indian Football Team Enters Sub-100 FIFA Ranking For First Time Since 2018 as it moved up one spot to 99th after its SAFF Championship triumph
- ‘Take Action Or We Will’: Supreme Court to Govt – 4 Arrested After Massive Outrage Over Horrific Manipur Video; Very little headway was made in the case in the 70-plus days; CM To Stay, Say Sources Amid Reports Of Removal; NHRC Sends Notice to State Govt
- ₹ 254 Cr Spent On PM Modi’s Foreign Visits In 5 Years, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan told Rajya Sabha
- ‘Don’t Make it a Prestige Issue’: SC Seeks Response From Union Govt over Cheetah Deaths; Govt has consented; court will convene again on August 1 for further deliberation
- Odisha: Train Narrowly Escapes Accident in Balasore; Station Master, Pointsman Suspended on charges of negligence and dereliction of duty
- India’s Richest MLA Has Assets Worth ₹ 1,400 Cr (DK Shivakumar), ‘Poorest’ MLA Has ₹ 1,700.. Nirmal Kumar Dhara from West Bengal; 3 richest MLAs from Karnataka – DK, Puttaswamy Gowda, ₹ 1,267Cr; Priya Krishna ₹ 1,156Cr; Out of Top 10, 4 from Congress & 3 from BJP
- Jet Airways appoints two directors, CFO; Air India finalises 800 LEAP engine order to power its new fleet
- World Bank Chief Ajay Banga: India has a three-to-five-year window to cash in on the China+1 opportunity as companies seek alternative manufacturing sites to diversify supply chains
- Infosys Q1 Results: Net Profit Jumps 10.9% YoY To Rs 5,945 Crore; Revenue Up 10%; Weak loans of banks to fall to 3-3.5% of gross advances by March 2025; Financial services secretary asks banks to achieve financial inclusion targets at earliest
- US court allows M&M arm to keep producing, selling post-2020 version of Roxor; MG Motor India sales up 21 per cent in Jan-June
- After outlier record high global diesel cracks in 2022, margins plunge; India’s oil & gas import bill contracts 33% y-o-y in April-June quarter as prices drop
- Separate Telecom Licence To Set Up Satellite Earth Station Gateways Approved; permit holders will not provide any service directly to end customers; non-refundable one-time entry fee of ₹ 10 lakh
- NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Captures Astonishing Pic Of Saturn And Its Moon from around 5,76,000 miles away
- Two Planets Sharing The Same Orbit Around A Star – The team spotted a cloud of debris that might be sharing the orbit of one of the two exoplanets known to orbit the young star PDS 70
- “Dangerous” World War 2 Bomb Found In Pacific Island Of Nauru, Disarmed; Govt declared a state of emergency across the island, evacuating all houses within 2KMS of the bomb
- US: 4-year-old girl named Olivia Caraballo Awarded $800,000 After She Was Severely Burned By McDonald’s Chicken Nugget
- North Korea Warns deployment of US weapons like aircraft carriers, bombers, or missile submarines in South Korea could meet the conditions for its use of nuclear weapons
- Suspected Gas Explosion Rips Open Roads, Flips Cars In Johannesburg; 1 dead & 48 injured
- Can’t Decouple from China, But Diversification is of Highest Importance: German Economy Minister Habeck
- Russia Upgrades Naval Fleet As Ukraine Maritime Drones Target Ships, Bridge In Crimea Assault; 16 Kalibrs in Missile Assault, 4 More Nasams for Ukraine, Russia’s National Guard Set to Get Tanks
- Billionaire backing and an IPL playbook turn kabaddi into India’s No 2 sport; Unique viewership rose 17% to 222 million in season nine
- 2nd Test Day 1: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma Shine As India Reach 288/4 At Stumps vs WI
- Today’s Word – Ferriferous – Bearing Iron
