Current affairs 28 October 2023

Kerala Govt To Set Up ₹237 Crore Graphene Production Facility.

The Kerala Government has set up a pilot production facility of Graphene which will cost ₹200 crores.
The Kerala Digital University would be the implementing agency, and KINFRA has been appointed as a special purpose vehicle for infrastructure development.
About Graphene:

It is the thinnest and strongest material in the world ever known and has good chemical stability, high electrical conductivity, and a large surface area while being transparent and lightweight.

India has signed a semiconductor supply chain partnership with Japan in October, 2023.
This agreement was signed between the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.
This agreement will last for 5 years from the date of its implementation.
The objective of this agreement is to enhance the semiconductor supply chain, ensuring supply of semiconductors to industries and advancement of digital technologies.
This agreement has been signed under the India-Japan Digital Partnership.
India-Japan Digital Partnership was launched in the year 2018.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced Amol Muzumdar would take over as the Indian women’s cricket head coach.
He has served as the head coach of the Mumbai Ranji team till the 2022–2023 domestic campaign.
He has also held coaching positions with the South African national team and IPL team Rajasthan Royals.
A domestic titan, he scored over 11,000 first-class runs in 171 matches including 30 centuries during his 21-year playing career.

India and the European Union (EU) conducted their maiden joint naval exercise in the Gulf of Guinea on the west coast of Africa in a bid to boost maritime security cooperation to support the region.
During the exercise, Indian Navy’s INS Sumedha, an Offshore Patrol Vessel, was joined by three EU Member States’ ships in the Gulf of Guinea Italian Navy Ship ITS Foscari, French Navy Ship FS Ventôse, and Spanish Navy Ship Tornado.

China launched the Shenzhou-17 manned spaceship from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft with three Chinese astronauts, known as taikonauts, blasted off.
This is the 30th flight mission of China's manned space program, all of which are successful, and the 12th manned mission of the program.
The trio will be welcomed by the Shenzhou-16 crew and conduct the country's third in-orbit rotation.