NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has announced that an Inter-Ministerial panel has sanctioned 5645 electric buses for operations in 65 cities and for inter-city operations to 8 state transport undertakings.
A 1984 batch IAS officer Rajiv Kumar has been appointed as the new Secretary, Finance Secretary of Government of India.
Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts at USA have made the “lightest insect-scale aerial vehicle which has achieved sustained, untethered flight” called RoboBee X-Wing. Just like an insect it can flap its wings 120 times a second.
Practical applications include understanding the mechanical basis of natural selection and environmental monitoring.
Britain has announced that it is planning a Europe-led force to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, world's busiest oil shipping lane.
This was in response to seizure of Stena Impero, a UK-flagged vessel on July 19 by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.