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. Indian women's contingent to maintain tranquilly at Abyei on Sudan-South Sudan border
According to India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, India will send an all-woman platoon of peacekeepers as part of a battalion to the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (on the border between South Sudan and Sudan). This will be India's largest single unit of women peacekeepers in a U.N. mission since the deployment of the first-ever all-woman contingent in Liberia in 2007. India is one of the countries that supplies the most troops to the UN peacekeeping operations.
2. Rajnath Singh, takes stock of defence preparedness, visits Indira Point
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh visited Indira Point on Friday, the nation's southernmost point, as part of his visit to the Andaman and Nicobar islands.He evaluated the defence readiness and urged the troops to continue defending the country's interests in the area, according to a statement from the Defence Ministry. Lt. Gen. Ajai Singh, the Andaman and Nicobar Command's Commander-in-Chief, accompanied the Minister (CINCAN).
3. To transform agriculture, free farmers from government interference: Debroy
According to the chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, Bibek Debroy, the country's farm sector reforms are still not complete. According to Mr. Debory, the Minimum Support Price (MSP), which is currently equal to the procurement price, was not intended to be one.In his remarks at the Business Line Agri-Business and Commodities Summit's opening ceremony on Friday, Mr. Debroy stated that the moment a nation "has a procurement strategy, it distorts choice."
4. Political fight over Central teams' visit to PM Awaas in West Bengal goes on
On Friday, the political scuffle surrounding the Central teams' visit to West Bengal went on for a second day. In the state's Purba Medinipur district on Thursday, a group of villagers staged protests and blocked roads in front of a Central team that was there to look into claims of irregularities in the PM Awaas Yojana. Dilip Ghosh, national vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), commented on the development by saying that such incidents defame the State of West Bengal.
6. China: Three years of stringent restrictions devolves into chaos and brings healthcare system to a standstill
China abruptly and unexpectedly abandoned its strict "zero-COVID" policy on December 13, and nearly two weeks later, on December 20, the nation formally disclosed just over 3,000 COVID-19 cases. In an internal conference, the National Health Commission (NHC) concluded that there were actually closer to 37 million cases that day. According to notes from an internal meeting that were later leaked, the commission estimated that China had seen about 250 million COVID cases in the first 20 days of December. This is a remarkable rate of spread for a population with low immunity that had been protected from COVID for three years by a policy that kept China cut off from the rest of the world, which by that point had learned to live with the virus.
6. President Joe Biden: United States will start deporting illegal border crossers from Mexico who are from Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua right away
President of the United States Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the country would start immediately turning away Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans who enter the country illegally through Mexico. This is his most audacious move to date to address the surge in migrant arrivals that has occurred since he took office two years ago. The new regulations build on an ongoing initiative to thwart Venezuelans trying to enter the country, which was launched in October and resulted in a sharp decline of Venezuelans approaching the southern border. Together, they mark a significant shift in immigration policies that will endure even if the Supreme Court strikes down a public health regulation from the Trump administration that permits American officials to turn away asylum claimants.
7. Real GDP growth is projected to increase by 7% in FY23
In order to provide crucial inputs for the budgeting process, the central government produced its first advance GDP estimates. The National Statistical Office (NSO) has released its initial advance projections, which predict that India's economy will expand by 7.0% during the current fiscal year.In 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced the country's GDP growth prediction from 7% to 6.8% for the current fiscal year, citing the persistence of geopolitical tensions and worsening financial conditions throughout the world.
8. Elon Musk has not provided any updates while hundreds of fired Twitter employees in India wait for severance pay
Both Elon Musk's Twitter and everyone who lost their jobs two months ago are having difficult times. According to a prior claim by India Today Tech, Musk fired around 170 people in India, leaving only roughly 80 people in all of the country's operations. Musk offered severance pay for affected employees in November after laying off thousands of workers. India Today Tech has learned that the Twitter CEO has still not given impacted employees, including those put off in India, information about severance pay.
9. Asian Cricket Council disputes Pakistan Cricket Board's assertion that Jay Shah made unilateral choices
The Asian Cricket Council has categorically denied charges made by the head of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Najam Sethi, that Jay Shah unilaterally decided the cricketing calendar. The ACC stated in a statement released on Friday that Shah released the calendar on Thursday after it had been approved at a meeting on December 13.
10. Over 90% of Malayalam films released in 2022 were box office duds
Only 17 of the 176 films that were released in theatres between January and December of last year really made money at the box office, and of those 17, fewer than 10 brought in an average of more than 10 crore for the producers.
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