1. After the safe landing of the Lander module of Chandrayaan 3 on the moon, Bengaluru-based ISRO has this morning announced: “The Ch-3 Rover ramped down from the Lander and India took a walk on the moon! More updates soon.”
2. National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, will be signing Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Research& Training Organizations of Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC), Indian Council of Forestry and Research and Education (ICFRE), Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Central Academy for State Forestry Service (CASFOS), Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), and Forest Survey of India (FSI), as a step towards building partnership for research and education on biodiversity and conservation.
3. The 5th edition of the India Clean Air Summit (ICAS), which will be held till August 25 in Bengaluru, will initiate a dialogue on the implications of pollution on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Mission LiFE. The gathering also intends to align clean air goals with climate policies and discuss how democratising air pollution data can enable improved citizen science. Various sessions of the summit are being organised by the Centre for Air Pollution Studies (CAPS) at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP).
