Current Affairs – 25 August 2022

  • India’s first Indigenous (Made-in-India) Aircraft Carrier (IAC) ‘Vikrant’ to be launched on 02 Sep 2022
    • It will be a milestone event towards ‘AatmaNirbharta’ for Ministry of Defence, India and Indian Navy
    • It is named after its predecessor, India’s first Aircraft Carrier which played important role in the 1971 war
  • MoU signed for rapid development of modern Multi Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) under Bharatmala Pariyojna
    • MMLPs to act as stations for cargo movement with roadways, railways & inland waterways access
    • MoU was signed between:
      • National Highways Logistics Management Limited (NHLML),
      • Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and
      • Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL)
  • SING (Spectrographic Investigation of Nebular Gas) Project under stress due to India-China dispute
    • India-Russia in collaboration are installing Made-in-India spectroscope aboard the Chinese space station Tiangong since 2019 in under this initiative led by UN
      • Spectrograph is an instrument that studies ultraviolet radiations by spliting light into wavelengths and frequencies