Daily Curated News – E84

July 25, 2023 0 Comments

NEWS DIGEST to start the DAY – 25 July – 5 Mins read

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  1. Kartarpur Corridor To Reopen Today As Flood-Situation Eases On Border; Flood Scare In Karnataka Amid Heavy Rain, Schools, Colleges Shut In 9 Districts; 100-Metre Stretch Of Badrinath Highway Washed Away After Heavy Rain
  2. Parl Panel Suggests Setting Up Specialised Security Agency For Airports; also proposed constituting a special airline wing to deal with police and courts in unruly air passenger behaviour cases
  3. Even A Techie Lost ₹ 82 Lakh”: Cops Bust ₹ 700-Cr Cyber Fraud Ring; money was routed to China via Dubai and some of it was also sent to account operated by Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah
  4. Questions Raised After 700 Myanmar Nationals Enter Manipur In 2 Days; Carrying Essentials, First Goods Train Enters Manipur After Nearly 2 Months; Mob Surrounds Meghalaya Chief Minister’s Office, 5 Injured In Attack
  5. A case has been filed against four fishermen, who allegedly catching a dolphin accidentally from the Yamuna river and ate it; A forest ranger, in his complaint, added that some passersby filmed the fishermen while they were carrying away the dolphin
  6. Madhya Pradesh Official Patwari Gajendra Singh Swallows ₹ 5,000 He Took As Bribe On Spotting Cops; received as a bribe in his private office as part of a trap laid by authorities
  7. Madhya Pradesh Man Forced To Lift Shoe With Mouth, Punched; 3 Arrested; victim, with his hands tied behind his back, is seen pleading for mercy in the video clip, which is more than two years old
  8. NASAs experimental supersonic aircraft, the X-59 ‘Son of Concorde’ is all set for its first test flight; Might Soon Take You To Any Point On Earth Within 2 Hours
  9. Maruti Suzuki recalling a total of 87,599 S-Presso and Eeco vehicles to inspect and replace a possible defect in the vehicle’s steering system
  10. Delhi’s Khan Market rentals breach pre-Covid levels, hit record Rs 1.5k/sq ft a month; double than the costliest retail location of Mumbai and about four times that of Bengaluru
  11. ITC Briefly Dethrones Hindustan Unilever To Become No. 1 Consumer Stock; saw its valuation jump above ₹ 6.1 trillion for the first time ever, surpassing Hindustan Unilever’s ₹ 6.09 trillion
  12. Lessors Have Applied For Deregistration Of 54 Go First Planes; Go First informs NCLT it is exploring settlement with Delhivery; Delhi High Court summons SpiceJet’s Ajay Singh
  13. I-T dept sends 100,000 notices where assesses either not declared income or have underreported income; all these cases are for old returns filed 4-6 years earlier; IT Dept will complete these notices by March 31, 2024; lens on use of multiple PAN card cases
  14. Indian fintech sector sees bleak 1st half 2023 as funding drops 67%; Sahara Cooperative refund: 700,000 log into portal to claim ₹158Cr; Banks told to alert customers on frauds related to Mudra loans
  15. Tesla To Discuss With Govt Factory Plan For New ₹ 20 Lakh Car for the local market and for export; 7 Electric Two-Wheeler Makers (including Hero Electric and Okinawa) To Pay ₹ 469 Cr For claiming incentives while not complying with FAME II scheme norms
  16. A 28-year-old man has tested positive for the potentially fatal Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in a city in Abu Dhabi on the border with Oman
  17. Protests Break Out As Israel Clears Plan To Curb Supreme Court Powers in striking down government decisions
  18. Ancient “Portal To The Underworld” Discovered In A Cave In Israel; discovered a number of curious items including pieces of three human skulls, 120 oil lamps, ancient pottery and weapons
  19. Bangladesh Orders Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus To Pay 1 Million Dollars Tax on a $7 million donation made to three charitable trusts
  20. At ANDI the robot’s home, a newly developed heat chamber, researchers can simulate heat-exposure scenarios from different places around globe; Helps Scientists Understand Impact Of Soaring Heat
  21. Musk’s SpaceX Rocket Punches Hole In Ionosphere which lies on the edge of space and is filled with charged particles called ions
  22. North Korea launched a possible ballistic missile; projectile is believed to have fallen outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone 
  23. UN Command Starts ‘Conversation’ through the mechanism of the armistice agreement, With North Korea For US Soldier Travis King who ran across the border into North Korea last week
  24. Harmanpreet Kaur May Get 2-Game Suspension For Angry Behaviour In ODI vs Bangladesh, May Miss Asian Games Matches
  25. Today’s Word – Ideogeny – Study of origins of ideas