Exercise Tiger Triumph – 24 | Current Affairs | Vision IAS
News Today Logo

Also in News

Posted 19 Mar 2024

9 min read

Exercise Tiger Triumph – 24

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

Space-borne Assistant and Knowledge Hub for Crew Interaction (SAKHI) App

  • 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.
  • Tags :
  • Gaganyaan
  • SAKHI

Tobacco Board

  • Tobacco Board authorizes 100 million kg crop size for Karnataka during 2024-25.

 

  • 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.
  • Tags :
  • tobacco board
  • Tobacco production

Third-Party Application Provider (TPAP)

  • 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.
  • Tags :
  • UPI
  • Third-Party Application

Air Quality Report 2023

  • Air Quality Report 2023 is released by Swiss organisation IQAir.

 

  • 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.
  • Tags :
  • Air Quality Report 2023
  • IQAir

Papikonda National Park

  • 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