1) Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandviya released Harvard study reports on India's COVID-19 vaccination programme.
➨ These reports are, COVID-19-India’s Vaccine Development Story and India's COVID-19 Vaccination Administration Journey.
➨The reports focus on manufacturing indigenous vaccines and timely procedures that ensured safe administration of vaccination across the various age groups.
2) A striking and unprecedented image of a solar eruption has been captured by NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft.
➨ It's the largest solar prominence ever observed in a single image together with the full disc of the sun.
▪️NASA :-
➨Headquarters - Washington, D.C.
➨Formed - July 29, 1958
➨Preceding agency - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
3) Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General MM Naravane presented the ‘President’s Colours’, popularly called Nishan in Army parlance, to four parachute battalions during a Colour Presentation Parade held at the Parachute Regiment Training Centre in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
▪️Karnataka:-
CM :- Basavaraj Bommai
Governor :- Thawarchand Gehlot
Formation :- 1 November 1956
Language :- Kannada
Port :- New Mangalore Port
4) The Indian Army has acquired ‘mini remotely piloted’ aircraft systems which will further enhance its surveillance capabilities in high-altitude areas.
5) The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) released a policy proposal titled as, “Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy, 2022”.
➨ The policy aims to, “radically transform India's ability to harness public sector data”.
6) Asset management company ITI Mutual Fund has launched ITI Conservative Hybrid Fund, an open-ended hybrid scheme that will invest into an array of high-quality debt instruments and also into leading Nifty50 index stocks.
7) Veteran actress Maheshwari Amma, better known by her stage name of KPAC Lalitha who starred in over 500 films primarily in Malayalam cinema, passed away in Kochi. She was 74.
8) The Central Government has launched the “Janbhagidari Empowerment” portal in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
▪️Jammu and Kashmir :-
➨L. Governor of J&K - Manoj Sinha
➨Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Hirapora Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dachigam National Park
➨Salim Ali National Park
9) The Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Royal Air Force of Oman began a five-day bilateral exercise at the Jodhpur air force station. The exercise named Eastern Bridge VI is in its sixth edition.
▪️Indian Air Force:-
➨Founded - 8 October 1932
➨Headquarters - New Delhi
➨Commander-in-Chief - President Ram Nath Kovind
➨Chief of the Air Staff - Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari
10) Israel successfully tested a new naval air defense system "C-Dome".
➨The C-Dome system is a naval version of the Iron Dome, which has been used to shoot down rockets fired from the Gaza Strip for the past decade.
▪️Israel:-
➨ Capital - Jerusalem
➨ Prime minister - Naftali Bennett
➨ President - Isaac Herzog
➨ Israel Currency - Israeli Shekel.
11) Coca-Cola India’s soft-drink brand Thums Up has on-boarded Shahrukh Khan as its brand endorser, continuing its legacy of using Bollywood’s A-list celebrities to back the beverage brand.
12) Chandigarh University has received accreditation from the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for all its Engineering and MBA programmes.
➨ Chandigarh University now became the only university in India to have both NAAC A+ and NBA accreditation.
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