BASIC countries in making Paris agreement
Nations Framework for Climate Change (UNFCC) Conference of Parties (COP-25) meet to be held later in the year from 2nd to 13th December, the BASIC countries held its 28th Ministerial meeting on Climate Change from 14th to 16th August in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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#BASIC #UNFCC #CBDRRC #UNSG #IPCC #ICAO #IMO #PrakashJavadekar #XIEZhenhua

What is the UN’s stand on Kashmir?
On August 16, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a “closed consultation” meeting on the situation in Kashmir. On August 5, India had ended the special status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under Article 370 and Article 35A, carving it into two Union Territories: J&K and Ladakh.
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#UN #Kashmir #UNSC #UNCIP #Pakistan #India #Ladakh

Konkan Exercise in English Channel
Indian Navy stealth frigate INS Tarkash joined the UK Royal Navy's HMS Destroyer in the English Channel for their annual Konkan Exercise this week. Konkan is a long-running exercise designed to test the ability of the two Commonwealth navies to operate side-by-side during war and other crunch scenarios.
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#KonkanExercise #EnglishChannel #INS #IndianNavy #HMS #Destroyer

China launches rocket for commercial use
A Chinese government space agency successfully launched on 17 August 2019 its first rocket meant for commercial use, state television CCTV reported, as firms in the country compete to join a commercial satellite boom.
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#China #CASC #SmartDragon #rocket #satellites #CAS #TechnologyCorp

Two galaxies colliding
NASA and European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope has just captured images of two luminescent galaxies catalogued as UGC 2369. The telescope was able to capture mutual gravitational attraction between both the galaxies. Interaction between galaxies is not an uncommon event, however, two similarly sized ones merging is one of a kind.
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#galaxies #ESA #NASA #UGC2369 #MilkyWay #HubbleSpaceTelescope

India Strategy on Blockchain
A Niti Aayogdiscussion paper has made a case for using blockchain technology to resolve business and governance process inefficiencies.
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#Blockchain #IndiaStrategy #WEF #NitiAayogdiscussionpaper


SAMPRITI-IX begin
A 14-day joint military training exercise by Indian and Bangladesh armies was flagged off on 3 February 2020 in Umroi in Meghalaya.
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#SAMPRITIIX #CPX #FTX #Indianarmies #Bangladesh #MdShafiulAzam

World Cancer Report
The UN health agency on 4 February 2020 warned cancer cases would rise by 81 percent in low- and middle-income countries by 2040 because of a lack of investment in prevention and care.
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#WorldCancer #CancerReport #WorldCancerReport #WHO


Coronavirus a state calamity
After Kerala declared a health emergency following three positive cases of the new coronavirus, other states could also have a reason to worry.
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#Coronavirus #statecalamity #Kerala #WHO #MERS


NASA’s Spitzer space telescope
On 30 January 2020, NASA’s Spitzer space telescope signed off and went silent. But even during its final week of operation, the spacecraft was making one-of-a-kind observations.
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#NASAsSpitzer #spacetelescope #HubbleSpaceTelescope #solarsystem

Watch: KSG Explainer | Galactic ‘dancing duo’ captured | GS Paper - 3 (Space Technology) #upsc #ksgindia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRFPank_05E