Jun 06, 2024 | Current Affairs for UPSC, State PCS & other Govt. Exams

Pakistan, in collaboration with China, has launched the PAKSAT MM1 satellite, aiming to boost internet connectivity and communication services across the country.
IIT Dharwad team develops a fire rescue assistant drone with funding from TiHAN Foundation, IIT Hyderabad.
The ISRO has developed a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software called PraVaHa. PraVaHa simulates external and internal flows on various launch vehicles.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, United States has yet again emerged as the top university in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Imperial College London, University of Oxford and Harvard University are in second, third and fourth place respectively.

In India, IIT Bombay is followed by IIT Delhi and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru at second and third place.
South Korea has officially launched its space agency, the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA).
The 2024 Heads of State Summit for the Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA-TFCA) or KAZA Summit 2024 took place in Livingstone, Zambia, where member states renewed their calls to withdraw from the CITES.

Members of the five-nation (Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe) KAZA-TFCA accuse the West of double standards but decide to give dialogue a chance.