Current Affairs - Miscellaneous

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services company, has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud and unveiled a new offering called TCS Generative AI.

Global private equity firm Blackstone has fully acquired the International Gemological Institute (IGI), the world's largest certification player for lab-grown diamonds and the second-largest certification player for natural diamonds.

The Government of Israel is partnering with India through the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) to establish an India-Israel Center of Water Technology (CoWT) in water resources management and water technologies at IIT-M.

Indian author Ruskin Bond wrote the book titled "The Golden Years: The Many Joys of Living a Good Long Life." The book, published by HarperCollins India, was released on 19 May 2023, which also marked Bond's 89th birthday.

A recent report by the United Nations (UN) has unveiled that Indian government-owned companies and private firms in the country supplied arms, dual-use items, and raw materials worth ₹422 crores (approximately $51 million) to the military junta in Myanmar. The report is titled "The Billion Dollar Death Trade: International Arms Networks."