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Posted 19 Mar 2024

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Exercise Tiger Triumph – 24

Tiger Triumph – 24 is a bilateral tri-Service Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise between India and USA.

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (located at Thumba in Thiruvananthapuram) has developed it to help astronauts on Gaganyaan mission.
- Gaganyaan project envisages demonstration of human spaceflight capability by launching crew of 3 members to an orbit of 400 km.

Benefits
- Monitor health of astronauts and provides information of blood pressure, heart rate etc.
- Seamless communication link by keeping crew connected with onboard computer and ground-based stations
- Helps in maintaining a log on mission in multiple formats including voice records, texts and images.

About Tobacco Board (HQ: Guntur, Andhra Pradesh)
- It is statutory body constituted in 1976 under Tobacco Board Act, 1975.
- Function: Export promotion of all varieties of tobacco and its allied products, and production, distribution, and regulation of Flue Cured Virginia tobacco.
- Ministry: Dept. Of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
In 2021, India stands as 2nd largest country in production and 4th largest exporter of unmanufactured tobacco in world.

Paytm has recently received third-party application provider license from National Payments Corporation of India.

About TPAP:
- It is an entity that provides UPI-compliant apps e.g., Mobile wallets and merchant apps to end-user customers to facilitate UPI-based payment transactions.
- TPAP participates in UPI through a Payment Service Provider (PSP) bank.
  - PSP is a banking platform. It connects to UPI platform to offer UPI payment services to itself and TPAPs.
- Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a real-time payment system developed by NPCI.

Key Findings:
- India had the third worst air quality after Bangladesh and Pakistan.
- New Delhi has been ranked as the World's most Polluted Capital City.
- Bihar’s Begusarai has emerged as the world’s most polluted metropolitan area.
- More than 1 billion people in India experience PM2.5 concentrations exceeding the WHO’s recommended levels of 5 µg/m³.
- Only Seven countries met the WHO annual PM 2.5 guideline.
- French Polynesia is identified as least polluted.

In a bird survey held by IISER-Tirupati in Papikonda National Park (Andhra Pradesh), more than 200 bird species have been sighted.

About Papikonda National Park (PNP)
- Located in northern Eastern Ghats, is spread over the Papi Hills and straddles the Godav