News in Shorts:

• Toto language is set to receive its own dictionary.

About Toto language:

• It is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by tribal Toto people residing in regions of West Bengal adjacent to Bhutan.
• It is a crucial move towards safeguarding the language, which has previously been solely oral, by documenting its vocabulary in written form.

• The Solicitor General of India(SGI) argued that if any post with ‘fake and false facts’ is flagged,  then the intermediaries have the options of removing or putting a disclaimer on the content.
• SGI made submissions in a challenge to the Information Technology Amendment Rules, 2023 (IT Amendment Rules, 2023). 

About IT Amendment Rules, 2023:

• The Rules require social media intermediaries to censor, or otherwise modify, content that relates to the Central Government if a government mandated fact checking unit (FCU) directs them to do so..

• The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued a tender for the construction of India’s first set of offshore wind projects.
• Project location: The project has been  offered at seven locations off the coast of Tamil Nadu, with a cumulative capacity of 7 gigawatts (Gw).
• Nodal Agency: The ministry has appointed the National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) the nodal agency for conducting the bidding.

• The government recently launched the PRIP scheme.

About PRIP scheme :

• The scheme aims to strengthen research infrastructure in India.

Scheme components:

• Infrastructure building: It includes establishing centers of excellence in seven campuses of National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER).
•  Financial assistance to large industries, micro, small and medium industries (MSME’s) and startups.
  • They will carry out research in collaboration with academic institutions as well as for in-house R&D.