current affairs 02 July 2022

Indian’s INS Satpura and Boeing P8I aircraft ready to participate in RIMPAC-22.

INS Satpura entered Pearl Harbour in Hawaii Islands to participate in RIMPAC-22.
INS Satpura and one P8I maritime patrol aircraft from the Indian Navy are participating in one of the largest multilateral Naval Exercises, the US Navy-led biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise 2022.
The exercise spanning over six weeks of intense operations and training is aimed at enhancing interoperability and building trust among Navies of friendly foreign countries.
27 countries are participating in the current edition of the multi-dimensional exercise.
INS Satpura is an indigenously designed and built 6000-tonne guided missile stealth frigate equipped to seek and destroy adversaries in air, surface and underwater.

India’s first indigenously developed mRNA vaccine against the COVID-19 gets the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), to be sold under the brand name GEMCOVAC™-19 and will be rolled out soon.
The vaccine will be available for adults above 18 years of age.
It is a two-dose vaccine to be administered intramuscularly at 28 days apart.
GEMCOVAC-19™ is the very first mRNA vaccine developed in India and the only third mRNA vaccine to be approved for COVID-19 in the world.
It is developed by The Pune-based subsidiary of Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd.

India successfully flight-tested the indigenously developed high-speed expendable aerial target (HEAT), ABHYAS, from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur off the Odisha coast.
ABHYAS is designed and developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment of DRDO.
The aircraft is programmed for a fully autonomous flight, meaning that it flies under the control of automatic systems and needs no intervention from a human pilot.
India also test-fired the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) in Chandipur last week.

Mohammed Jalood has been elected as the new IWF President.
Iraqi official Jalood has also served as IWF general secretary for the past five years.
Jalood is the first permanent president since Tamás Aján stepped down in 2020 after 44 years.
Jaloud, one of 11 candidates for the presidency, was a weightlifter himself for 13 years, and also holds citizenship status in Kazakhstan.
Ursula Garza Papandrea is the first female vice president of the IWF.

Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Arjun Munda has launched the second phase of the Going Online As Leaders (GOAL) Programme in New Delhi.
The GOAL 1.0 has changed the lives of tribal youth through the digital mentorship programme.
This programme will also create a platform for Self-Help Groups and ten lakh families associated with TRIFED to take their products global.
Aim: To digitally upskill the youth from tribal communities of the country.