TIT BITS:
1.OPERATION SADBHAV : India has launched Operation Sadbhav to provide
humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) to Laos, Myanmar and
Vietnam.Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam have been hit by severe flooding caused by
Typhoon Yagi.
2.CREATE
:The
Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises has inaugurated the Centre
for Rural Enterprise Acceleration through Technology (CREATE) setup at
Leh.CREATE will provide a Pashmina Wool Roving Facility, Training for
development of production facility for Essential Oil Extraction from Roses and
Other Flowers and Training for development of production facility for
Bio-processing of available fruits and other raw materials.
3.SAARTHI : The Open
Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) launched Saarthi, a new reference
application aimed at helping businesses create customized multilingual buyer
apps. It is developed in collaboration with Bhashini which is an AI-powered
language translation tool. The app initially supports Hindi, English, Marathi,
Bangla and Tamil, with plans to scale up to all 22 languages provided by
Bhashini.
4.VLSRSAM: Recently, India successfully
test-fired the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VLSRSAM)
from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur on the Odisha coast.