Today’s Top 10 News: From Egypt showing interest in India’s Tejas fighters to Surya Kumar Yadav emerging as ICC top most cricketer, here are the top picks for you
Today’s Top 10 News: DNP News brings to you top 10 breaking stories of the day to keep you abreast of all the latest developments from India and around the world.
1. Egypt has shown a strong interest to purchase Tejas planes and other platforms from India
Egypt reiterated on Wednesday its desire to buy Tejas light combat aircraft, radars, military helicopters, and other systems from India, and both countries pledged to step up their overall defence cooperation in view of the changing regional security landscape. People with knowledge of the situation indicated that during delegation-level discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the Egyptian side expressed its interest in acquiring the Indian platforms. The powerful Arab leader, 68, came to this country on Tuesday for a three-day visit. He will attend Thursday’s Republic Day festivities as the primary guest. According to the sources, Egypt and India have already had preliminary discussions over the purchase of Tejas.
2. Our nation has been guided by the vision of the Constitution’s framers: Prez Murmu
The task of “following that path is our obligation,” President Droupadi Murmu said in her address to the nation on the eve of the 74th Republic Day on Wednesday. The founders of the Constitution gave us a road map and a moral framework. She claimed that the founding declaration draws inspiration from both fresh concepts that have evolved in more recent history and the humanistic philosophy of the oldest existing civilization in the world.
3. HEC employees who have gone more than a year without pay seek recourse and may file a lawsuit
Since they have been living in poverty due to not receiving their salaries for more than a year, some 1,300 employees of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), a PSU that built an ISRO launch pad a few years ago, have vowed to go to court if the situation is not resolved soon. The workers claimed that as a result of their financial predicament, they are unable to properly care for sick family members or pay for their children’s school expenses. Some of them, even officers, have turned to selling fruit or tea to make ends meet.
4. Centre might release a “benchmark pricing” for little millets
The Center might soon establish a benchmark price for minor millets produced in various States in light of the expansion of millets farming. The Center promised to assist States in obtaining and distributing millets via the public distribution system. Nine States currently purchase millets such jowar, bajra, and ragi for a minimum support price (MSP) set by the Center. Minor millets are not now available. Millets are increasingly being purchased using MSP, according to Subodh Kumar Singh, additional secretary in the Food Ministry. “The Ministries of Agriculture and Food are collaborating to set a benchmark price for the minor millets. The production of little millets should rise. If the benchmark price is guaranteed, we anticipate that their output.
5. Ukraine acknowledges leaving the Russian-held city of Soledar
The Ukrainian military acknowledged to AFP on Wednesday that its troops had left the eastern Donetsk area town of Soledar, which Russian forces claimed they had taken earlier this month. According to military spokesman Sergiy Cherevaty, “the Armed Forces of Ukraine departed (Soledar) and retreated along the periphery to pre-prepared positions after months of severe battle, especially during the previous weeks.
6. Ukraine toughens sanctions for disobedience and army deserters
In response to Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a contentious law on Wednesday toughening penalties for disobedience or deserting the armed services.According to the law posted on the website of the Ukrainian parliament, harsher penalties would also be imposed for offences including threatening commanders, leaving the battlefield, or consuming alcohol.
7. Gautam Adani’s stocks lose $12 billion as a result of Hindenburg’s call to sell short
After US investor Hindenburg Research announced that it was shorting the conglomerate’s stocks and accused companies owned by Asia’s richest person of “brazen” market manipulation and accounting fraud, shares in Adani Group companies lost $12 billion in market value. Following a two-year study into Gautam Adani’s businesses, Hindenburg, an investment research company that specialises in short-selling, issued broad charges of alleged corporate malfeasance that sent bonds and shares of Adani-related organisations down.
8. After weak consultancy demand hurts quarterly income, IBM eliminates 3,900 workers
On Wednesday, Corp announced 3,900 job cuts as a result of asset sales and reported flat fourth-quarter revenue as a result of weak demand for its advisory services. In order to concentrate on its hybrid-cloud, where it assists clients in setting up a combination of their own data centres and leased computing resources, Big Blue broke off its sizable and sluggish managed infrastructure company, now called Kyndryl, in late 2021. Additionally, it separated Watson Health’s AI business from its healthcare data and analytics division. According to IBM, the ensuing layoffs will result in a $300 million charge between January and March.
9. ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year is Suryakumar Yadav
Swashbuckling Surya Kumar Yadav, a middle-order batsman for India, was named the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year on Wednesday by the organisation that oversees international cricket. Surya had a standout year in the shortest format.Surya had a fantastic season last year in which he broke numerous T20I records. Popularly referred to as “SKY,” the 32-year-old scored 1164 runs in 31 T20I matches last year, averaging 46.56 and having an 187.43 strike rate. He won the award over Sam Curran, Mohammad Rizwan, a Pakistani wicketkeeper-batsman, and Sikandar Raza, a Zimbabwean batting all-rounder.
10. Sanjeev Sivan breathes life into Kuttanad’s backwaters
The Kuttanad-based Malayalam poet and lyricist Beeyar Prasad, also known as B Rajendraprasad, passed suddenly on January 4, 2023 as a result of symptoms from a cerebral haemorrhage. He would have been pleased with how a short tale he had written with Sanjeev Sivan turned into a movie that is currently in production if he had still been alive. “Prasad gave me a summary of the story in 2021. His health prevented him from developing the topic at the time, but as he was aware of my preference for issues that apply to everyone, he suggested I do so. I completed my version and started the shooting. He had seen the most of the movie, but he’s sadly no longer with us “Sanjeev tells us over the phone from his home in
