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Today's Headlines - 18 October 2024

Earliest Milky Way-like galaxy ever

GS Paper - III

A team of scientists, led by Lucie E. Rowland of Leiden University in The Netherlands, has discovered the most distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever observed. Named REBELS-25, the galaxy is disc-shaped and strongly rotation-oriented, with spiral arms and an elongated central bar just like the Milky Way.

Bone ossification test

GS Paper - III

One of the accused in the murder of former Maharashtra MLA Baba Siddique claimed before a court in Mumbai that he was 17 years old — and should thus be tried under the Juvenile Justice Act.

Suspected diphtheria death

GS Paper - II

A three-year-old girl died of suspected diphtheria in Punjab’s Faridkot, in what may be the first case of the bacterial infection in the state this year. Authorities said the child was not vaccinated against the preventable disease.

Section 6A of Citizenship Act

GS Paper - II

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on 17 October 2024 upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which granted citizenship to immigrants who entered Assam before 24 March 1971.

 

 

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