Acquist News at a Glance 01/08/24 (Pointers Business Forum Special Edition)
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Thursday 1st August 2024
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Pointers Business Forum Special Edition
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Famous Personality Born Today: Abhishek Verma (born 1 August 1989) is an Indian sport shooter. In 2019 Beijing he won a gold medal in the Men's 10 metre air pistol. A double gold medallist at World Cup, and he holds a BTech in computer science, wants to deal with cases related to cybercrime. He grabbed his second gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro World Cup in August.
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Numbers of the Day
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??USD 83.69
?? GBP 107.59
?? Euro 90.66
?? Gold 70,360 ??10 gm 24 (Kt)
?? Silver 87,100 ??Kg
? Petrol 104.21/Ltr
? Diesel 92.15/Ltr
*all values in INR as of Today
*as per Mumbai
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BSE Sensex 81,960.45
NIFTY 25,044.00
*all values in INR as of Today
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????Wayanad landslides: Indian Army's rescue operation plan for Wednesday in Kerala: The Indian Army has given out the details of relief and rescue operations planned for the day in landslides-hit Wayanad district. Relief and rescue personnel from the Indian Army, Air Force and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) continue to be stationed as nearly 150 people have died, and hundreds are still feared trapped under debris.
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????Last-minute ITR filers face glitches galore on income tax portal, tag Infosys: As the deadline for filing income tax returns (ITR) ends on Wednesday, July 31, many last-minute filers encountered technical glitches on the income tax portal.
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????Lakshman Prasad Acharya sworn in as Governor of Manipur: Lakshman Prasad Acharya, who took charge as the Governor of Assam on Tuesday, was on Wednesday sworn in as the 19th governor of Manipur, replacing Anusuiya Uikey.
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????Delhi IAS coaching centre: HC slams 'freebie culture', summons MCD commissioner: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday hit out at Delhi government's “freebie culture” over the death of three civil services aspirants in the basement of the Rau's IAS coaching centre due to flooding in Old Rajindra Nagar on July 27. The Delhi High Court also directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) and Investigating Officer to appear in the court on Friday, news agency PTI reported.
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????SC reserves decision on whether its verdict upholding State’s right to tax mineral rights should apply only prospectively: A nine-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court on July 31 reserved for orders a query raised by the Centre on whether its July 25 judgment upholding the power of State Legislatures to tax mines and minerals rights would be applied retrospectively.
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????Preeti Sudan, former Union Health Secretary, appointed as UPSC Chairperson: Former Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan has been appointed as the chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Preeti Sudan, who is a member of the UPSC, will take charge of the position on Thursday, August 1.
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????Delhi government plans to introduce bill to regulate coaching centres: The Delhi government plans to introduce a bill to regulate coaching centres in the Capital by specifying requirements such as minimum infrastructure, qualifications of the teachers, and fees, education minister Atishi announced on Wednesday.
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????Excise policy: Judicial custody of Kejriwal, others extended in CBI, ED cases: A Delhi court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his former Deputy Manish Sisodia, BRS legislator K Kavitha, and other accused, in the case related to the national capital's now-scrapped liquor policy.
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??International
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??Singapore, US sign civil nuclear cooperation pact: The United States and Singapore signed an agreement Wednesday to "deepen" cooperation on the peaceful use of nuclear energy as the city-state considers alternative power sources to cut carbon emissions.
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??Austin says Middle East war not inevitable, seeks to 'take the temperature down': US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he did not think a wider war in the Middle East was inevitable and the United States was seeking to cool rising tensions in the region.
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??NASA smacked a spacecraft into an asteroid – and learned details about its 12-million-year history: Double Asteroid Redirection Test – was humanity’s first real-world planetary defence mission. The DART spacecraft smashed into the companion “moon” of a small asteroid 11 million kilometres from Earth. NASA said “One goal was to find out if we can give such things a shove if one were headed our way”.
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??Bank of Japan raises its key interest rate, aiming to curb yen's slide against the dollar: The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate Wednesday to about .25% from zero to about 0.1%, acting to curb the yen’s slide against the US dollar. The move was widely expected, and the yen gained sharply against the dollar ahead of Wednesday’s decision, trading at 152.75. But the dollar rebounded slightly after the decision, to 153.17 yen.
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??Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was on Wednesday killed in Tehran after he had attended the swearing-in of the new Iranian President, with the Gaza-based militant group alleging that he was killed in an “Israeli attack”.
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??US Secret Service acting chief makes major admission on Trump's security breach: Ronald Rowe, the new acting Director of the US Secret Service, appeared for a joint congressional hearing and made a major admission on former President Donald Trump's security breach. He admitted that he was “ashamed” of security flaws that kept agents in the dark about the 20-year-old gunman and led to an attempted assassination of Republican presidential candidate at a campaign event in Pennsylvania on July 13.
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??Bangladesh to ban fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for exploiting student protests: The Bangladesh government decided to ban the Jamaat-e-Islami following the deadly nationwide students’ protests over quotas in government jobs, accusing the fundamentalist party of exploiting the movement that left at least 150 people dead.
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??Kamala Harris only Democratic candidate to qualify for US Presidential race: Vice President Kamala Harris has sealed her Democratic Presidential nomination as she emerged as the only candidate to qualify for virtual roll call votes from the party’s delegates from across the country.
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??Tech
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??AWS’ GenAI Loft for startups launched in Bengaluru: Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of a new global initiative called AWS GenAI Loft in Bengaluru. Designed to foster innovation and promote Generative AI technology, GenAI Loft aims to put up pop-up spaces around the world where developers, startups and AI enthusiasts can connect and learn together. Starting with Bengaluru, the tour will run from July 29 to August 9.
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??Vivo plans to double production, increase exports with a larger manufacturing facility: Vivo India has manufactured over 150 million smartphones at its Greater Noida based facility in the last ten years. The Chinese smartphone maker also claims that it has localised assembly of motherboard entirely, battery (94%), chargers (97%), camera (77%), and fingerprint sensor (97%). Currently, Vivo has over 30 local suppliers in India.
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??New US rule on foreign chip equipment exports to China to exempt some allies: The Biden administration plans to unveil a new rule next month that will expand US powers to stop exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment from some foreign countries to Chinese chipmakers, two sources familiar with the rule said.
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??Microsoft OneDrive users in India could be tricked into installing a malware this way: Cybersecurity experts have revealed that a new campaign targeting Microsoft OneDrive users could trick them into downloading malware. Users will receive an email address with a .HTML file attached usually titled ‘Reports.pdf,’ to trick users into thinking it’s an important document from work. As soon as its opened, users will get a window that looks like Microsoft OneDrive along with an error stating, “Failed to connect to the ‘OneDrive’ cloud service. To fix the error, you need to update the DNS cache manually.”
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??Sports
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??Paris Olympics: Sindhu storms into women's singles Round of 16: Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu stormed into the pre-quarterfinals of the Olympic Games’ women’s singles competition after beating Kristin Kuuba of Estonia in straight games on Wednesday. The two-time Olympic medallist won 21-5 21-10 in her second and last Group M match that lasted 33 minutes.
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??Lovlina advances to boxing quarters; one win away from second Olympic medal: Tokyo Olympics bronze-winner Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) began her quest for a second successive Games medal confidently as she out-punched Norway's Sunniva Hofstad in her opening bout on Wednesday.
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??Novak Djokovic breaks singles record, edges closer to first Olympic gold: Novak Djokovic remained comfortably on course for a first Olympic gold medal to add to his record-breaking collection of titles on Wednesday as fellow superstars Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz aimed for a place in the doubles semi-finals.
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??Paris 2024: Andy Murray reaches quarters in men's doubles, keeps career alive: Andy Murray again staved off the end of his illustrious career as he and British doubles partner Dan Evans beat Belgium's Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen in another Paris Games cliffhanger at Roland Garros.
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