TITBITS:
1. The pink bollworm (PBW) has emerged as a major
threat to cotton cultivation in North India, particularly in Punjab, Haryana,
and Rajasthan.
2. Recently, the Supreme Court observed that an
accused cannot be said to be a witness against himself if he was called upon to
admit or deny the genuineness of the documents produced by the prosecution
under Section 294 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
3. The Union government has begun to e-auction many of
the 12,611 enemy properties across the country, out of which 126 belong to
Chinese citizens.
4. Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has smashed his own
record by winning Monday's elections with more than 99% of the vote.
5. Researchers have developed a new tool that can be
used to predict the emergence of unusually large and unpredictable waves at
sea—known as rogue waves.
6. A six-member student team from India have secured
the country its best performance ever in the International Mathematical
Olympiad (IMO) 2024.