TODAY NEWS ON October 09, 2024

News Headlines for CAT , CLAT and IPM aspirants

Source: The Hindu

National News

• PM Modi to visit Laos on October 10 to attend ASEAN-India, East Asia summits
• Assembly election results: Haryana, J&K mandates to echo across nation, says PM Modi
• Bengal government should apologise to people, says Governor as senior doctors at R.G. Kar hospital resign
• Ongoing conflicts trigger need for a strong, capable Air Force: Air chief
• SpiceJet announces fleet expansion, stock gains 9%
• Upper stage of historic PSLV-37 mission re-enters Earth’s atmosphere eight years after launch: ISRO
• India slipped on academic freedom index over the past decade: report
• Bihar performing well in basic indicators: NITI Aayog CEO
• Death toll rises to 17 in flood-hit Meghalaya’s North Garo Hills
• Bangladesh’s Yunus says no elections before reforms
• Ola Electric slapped with show cause notice for alleged consumer right violation; stock declines over 6%

International news

• Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey E. Hinton awarded for work on machine learning with artificial neural network
• Elon Musk’s X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court demands
• Sri Lanka orders new probe into Easter Sunday bombings
• Myanmar to send representative to ASEAN summit for first time in three years
• Israel expands offensive against Hezbollah in south Lebanon
• Israeli military says it killed senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut strike

Headlines in Detail:

PM Modi to visit Laos on October 10 to attend ASEAN-India, East Asia summits

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Laos on October 10 and 11 during which he will attend the 21st ASEAN-India Summit and the 19th East Asia Summit, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday (October 8, 2024). Laos is the current chair of ASEAN. On the invitation of his Laos counterpart Sonexay Siphandone, Prime Minister Modi will visit Vientiane on October 10-11, the MEA said in a statement.

J&K Assembly election results: NC-Congress combine win polls, Farooq Abdullah says Omar Abdullah to be made CM

The results for all 90 Assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir were declared on Tuesday (October 8, 2024) and the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) won 42 seats in Jammu and Kashmir while its alliance partner Congress won six seats. Omar Abdullah will be the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, his father and NC president Farooq Abdullah announced.

Haryana Assembly election results: BJP wins absolute majority

The BJP won 48 out of the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana, its third consecutive victory in the State. The Congress was trailing with 36 seats, as of 7.10 p.m. with one more seat to be declared, according to data from the Election Commission of India.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey E. Hinton awarded for work on machine learning with artificial neural network

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday (October 8, 2024). This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning, the Academy’s media statement said.

Assembly election results: Haryana, J&K mandates to echo across nation, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (October 8, 2024) thanked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers for helping the party post an unprecedented hat-trick in the Haryana Assembly election and its best-ever performance in Jammu & Kashmir, where it emerged as the biggest party in terms of vote shares, stating that the mandate would “echo across the country”.

Bengal government should apologise to people, says Governor as senior doctors at R.G. Kar hospital resign

The resignation of 50 senior doctors at the R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital should stir our conscience, West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose said on Tuesday (October 8, 2024). He urged the West Bengal Government to apologise to the people.

Elon Musk’s X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court demands

The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday (October 8, 2024) authorised the restoration of social media platform X’s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a statement posted on the court’s website.

Sri Lanka orders new probe into Easter Sunday bombings

Sri Lanka’s new government announced a probe Tuesday (October 8, 2024) into 2019 Easter bombings that killed 279 people, saying that previous investigations had failed to identify other culprits responsible for the country’s worst-ever attack against civilians.

Italian carrier at Goa, holds maiden carrier exercise with Indian Navy

In a historic maritime engagement, Indian Navy and Italian Navy carried out the maiden exercise by Carrier Strike Groups (CSG) of both the sides, off Goa coast from October 1 to 6. The sea phase of the exercise, held on October 5 and 6, was led by the carriers INS Vikramaditya and ITS Cavour, along with INS Visakhapatnam and ITS Alpino, the Indian Navy said.

Myanmar to send representative to ASEAN summit for first time in three years

Myanmar will send a representative to a regional summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source said on Tuesday, as the junta struggles to quell a civil war. The conflict will be high on the agenda as leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in Laos on Wednesday (October 9, 2024), although more than three years of efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis have had no impact.

Ongoing conflicts trigger need for a strong, capable Air Force: Air chief

The global security environment is in a state of constant flux. The ongoing conflicts demonstrate the inescapable requirement to have a strong and capable Air Force. Therefore, there is a need for the Indian Air Force (IAF) to be prepared to meet any contingency that challenges our national interests, said Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh in Chennai on Tuesday (October 8, 2024).

SpiceJet announces fleet expansion, stock gains 9%

SpiceJet has announced expansion of its fleet by the end of November with the induction of 10 aircraft, including seven which will be acquired on lease. The airline said three of its previously grounded planes would be reinducted into service.

Israel expands offensive against Hezbollah in south Lebanon

Israel ramped up its ground offensive against Hezbollah along Lebanon’s southern coast on Tuesday, deploying more troops and urging civilians near the Mediterranean to evacuate. The Iran-backed Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at the Israeli city of Haifa, after the Israeli military reported 85 projectiles crossing from Lebanon.

Upper stage of historic PSLV-37 mission re-enters Earth’s atmosphere eight years after launch: ISRO

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) informed that the upper stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-37 (PSLV C-37 mission) re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on October 6. The PSLV-C37 mission was launched on February 15, 2017 with Cartosat-2D as the main payload along with another 103 satellites as co-passengers, namely INS-1A, INS- 1B, Al-Farabi 1, BGUSAT, DIDO-2, Nayif 1, PEASS, 88 Flock-3p satellites, and 8 Lemur-2 satellites. The space agency created history as it was the first mission to launch 104 satellites with a single vehicle.

India slipped on academic freedom index over the past decade: report

Over the past 10 years, India has plummeted on the academic freedom index ranks, according to the “Free to Think 2024” annual report published by the Scholars at Risk (SAR) Academic Freedom Monitoring Project. SAR is a network of 665 universities across the globe, including Columbia University, Duke University, and New York University. The report has looked extensively at India, Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Germany, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Russia, Turkiye, Sudan, Ukraine, the U.K. and the U.S., while documenting 391 attacks on higher education communities in 51 countries between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.

Bihar performing well in basic indicators: NITI Aayog CEO

Bihar is performing well in basic indicators like education and health, and it is likely to catch up with the rest of the country in a couple of years, NITI Aayog CEO B.V.R. Subrahmanyam said. Addressing a press conference in Gaya where a national conference on data-driven governance will begin on Tuesday (October 8, 2024), he said a number of aspirational blocks and districts of Bihar will become “inspirational” soon due to improved governance and service delivery.

Death toll rises to 17 in flood-hit Meghalaya’s North Garo Hills

The bodies of two children were recovered from a pit in flood-hit Meghalaya’s North Garo Hills district on Monday (October 7, 2024), taking the death toll in the State to 17. Officials said the two children – aged 8 and 3 – fell into a pit that was not visible in an area partially filled with floodwaters. The children were from the district’s Bate Apal-Bangsi Apal village. Heavy rainfall hit the Garo Hills region of western Meghalaya on October 4, triggering flash floods and landslides. A series of local-level disasters claimed the lives of 15 people until the recovery of bodies of the two children.

Israeli military says it killed senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut strike

The Israeli military said Tuesday (October 8, 2024) it had killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike on Beirut, a day after the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack was marked by mourning and demonstrations around the globe. The military said the strike killed Suhail Husseini, who it said was responsible for overseeing the logistics, budget and management of the militant group. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.

Bangladesh’s Yunus says no elections before reforms

Bangladesh’s interim leader has refused to give a time frame for elections following the ouster of his predecessor, saying in an interview published Tuesday (October 8, 2024) that reforms are needed before polls. Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was appointed the country’s “chief advisor” after the student-led uprising that toppled ex-premier Sheikh Hasina in August. The 84-year-old microfinance pioneer is helming a temporary administration, to tackle what he has called the “extremely tough” challenge of restoring democratic institutions.

Ola Electric slapped with show cause notice for alleged consumer right violation; stock declines over 6%

The Central Consumer Protection Authority has slapped a Show Cause Notice on Ola Electric Mobility Ltd for alleged violation of consumer rights, misleading advertisement and unfair trade practices, Ola Electric Mobility said. “We wish to inform you that the company has received Show Cause Notice from the Central Consumer Protection Authority,” the company informed the stock exchanges.