current affairs 26 July 2022

China launches Wentian lab module to its permanent space station.

• China has successfully launched the Wentian laboratory module (23-tonne), second space module to its permanent space station.
• This has been launched on the Long March 5B from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan.
• This module will help astronauts to carry out their scientific experiments, along with the other lab module.
• First space module was Tianhe, was launched in April 2021 and the third module, Mengtian, will be launched soon.

Nitin Gadkari inaugurates Savner-Dhapewada-Goundkhairi section of NH 547-E.

• Union Minister for Road Transport, Nitin Gadkari has inaugurated the Savner-Dhapewada-Goundkhairi section of National Highway 547-E in Nagpur.
• The length of this section is 28.88 km.
• The four-laning of the Savner - Dhapewada - Goundakhairi section will provide better connectivity to the pilgrims like Ganesha Temple at Adasa and the Vitthal-Rukmini Temple at Dhapewada in the area.
• The bridge is over the Chandrabhaga river will relieve traffic jams in Dhapewada.

Amit Shah launches e-FIR system in Gujarat.

• Union home minister, Amit Shah has launched an e-FIR filing system in Gandhinagar to enable citizens to file FIRs online, without visiting a police station.
• With the help of this system, citizens will not need to go the police station to register a complaint for a vehicle theft or mobile phone theft.
• The e-FIR service has been linked with the Gujarat state police CCTV command and control centre.

ONGC sign gas sale agreements with GAIL, AGCL for Tripura' Khubal field.

• The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has signed a gas-selling agreement with GAIL India and Assam Gas Company Ltd (AGCL) at Khubal under Panisagar of North Tripura.
• The ONGC will supply 50,000 standard cubic metres (per day) of gas to GAIL and AGCL and a total 0.1 million standard cubic metres per day (MSCMD) gas will be supplied from ONGC's Khubal gas collecting station.
• Khubal station would have a capacity to process 0.44 MSCMD of gas.

Burhanpur,"Dakhin ka Darwaza" of Madhya Pradesh, became the 1st "Har Ghar Jal" certified district of the country.

• Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur district has become the first Har Ghar Jal certified district in the country.
• Burhanpur is also known as the Darwaza of Dakhin.
• The ministry said that only 37,241 rural households (36.54 per cent) out of a total of 1,01,905 households in Burhanpur had potable drinking water through tap connections at the time of the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission on 15th August 2019.