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- 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.
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