EX Bongosagar, a bilateral exercise between the Indian Navy and the Bangladesh Navy, has begun.
In Port Mongla, Bangladesh, the third iteration of the Indian Navy (IN) – Bangladesh Navy (BN) Bilateral Exercise `Bongosagar` commenced on May 24, 2022.
Highlights:
- On May 24, 2022, the third iteration of the Indian Navy (IN) – Bangladesh Navy (BN) Bilateral Exercise `Bongosagar` began in Port Mongla, Bangladesh.
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- The Bongosagar exercise will commence with a Harbour Phase on May 24-25, followed by a Sea Phase on May 26-27 in the Northern Bay of Bengal.
- By conducting several maritime exercises and operations between the two navies, Exercise Bongosagar aims to build high interoperability and combined operational skills.
- The exercise is being carried out by Indian Naval Ships Kora, an indigenously built Guided Missile Corvette, and Sumedha, an indigenously built Offshore Patrol Vessel. The Bangladesh Navy is represented by the Guided Missile Frigates BNS Abu Ubaidah and Ali Haider.
- Professional and social exchanges, friendly sporting events, and tactical level planning conversations on the conduct of the exercises at sea are all part of the exercise`s harbor phase.
- Ships from both nations would be able to participate in rigorous surface warfare drills, weapon firing drills, seamanship evolutions, and coordinated air operations in a tactical scenario during the exercise`s sea phase.
Former West Indies captain Darren Sammy has been awarded the Sitara-E-Pakistan Award.
Daren Sammy, the former captain of the West Indies, has been awarded the Sitara-i-Pakistan Award for Services to Pakistan.
Highlights
- Daren Sammy is conferred with the Sitara-i-Pakistan Award for Services to Pakistan in a ceremony.
- He was known for his role in helping bring international cricket back to Pakistan. It is the 3rd-highest civil award conferred by Pakistan.
- Daren represented West Indies in 38 Tests, 68 T20Is, and 126 ODIs and has been one of the best captains in the T20 format, and he captained many franchises around the world.
- Daren led the West Indies to 2 T20 World titles (2012 and 2016) and was receiving his 2nd civil honor from Pakistan in as many years.
- In March 2020, Daren got the highest civilian medal of Pakistan, Nishan-e-Pakistan, for helping bring international cricket back to Pakistan.
- He was awarded honorary Pakistani citizenship by Arif Alvi, the President of Pakistan.
The world`s most powerful supercomputer, Japan`s Fugaku, has been surpassed by the US Frontier.
ORNL`s Supercomputer Frontier from the United States beat Japan`s Supercomputer Fugaku, according to the 59th edition of Germany`s Top500 ranking of the world`s most powerful supercomputers.
Highlights:
- According to the 59th edition of the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers revealed by Germany, ORNL’s Supercomputer Frontier from the US, a supercomputer that was built using Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) architecture and equipped with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors, surpassed Japan’s Supercomputer Fugaku to become the world’s fastest supercomputer.
- Frontier’s closest competitor, Fugaku, has a performance score of 442 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark, which was a standard for officially ranking global, publicly disclosed supercomputers.
- Fugaku was based on Arm’s core designs, and US’s Frontier is powered by AMD.