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Amid record-high fuel prices, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said there is no proposal as of now to bring crude oil, petrol, diesel, jet fuel (ATF) and natural gas under the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

This meant that the central government continued to levy excise duty on them while state governments charged VAT. These taxes, with excise duty, in particular, have been raised periodically.

While the taxes haven’t come down, a spike in global oil prices on demand recovery has pushed petrol and diesel to an all-time high, leading to demand for them come under the GST.
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To facilitate the ‘One Nation-One Ration Card’ system in the country, the government has launched ‘Mera Ration’ mobile app to benefit citizens in identifying the nearest fair price shop.

This app will benefit especially those ration card holders who move to new areas for livelihoods.

The app is developed by the government in association with NIC to facilitate various “One Nation-One Ration Card” related services among the National Food Security Act (NFSA) beneficiaries, particularly migrant beneficiaries, fair price shop dealers and other relevant stakeholder.
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The Japanese scientific research institute called RIKEN and Fujitsu started developing the “Fugaku” six years ago.

It is the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Now this supercomputer is fully ready and
developed in Japan and is now available for the research use.

It is a key national technology that has been developed with the goal to achieve research results which ultimately will help in building a long-lived and healthy society, better energy use and disaster mitigation. It also aims to establish the government’s vision of making “ultra-smart Society 5.0”.
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France conducts first military exercises in spaceMilitary exercises in space will test France's ability to defend its satellites as well as other defenceequipment from attack amid the growing competition between the world powers in Earth’s orbit.

France has launched its first military exercises in space in order to test its ability to defend its satellites as well as other defence equipment from attack amid the growing competition between the world powers in Earth’s orbit.

The exercise, which has been codenamed ‘AsterX’ in the memory of the first French satellite from
the year 1965, will be based on 18 simulated events in an operations room.

The Space Command of France was announced in 2019 and aims to have 500 personnel by the
year 2025.