Deep Ocean Mission
After successfully venturing into space exploration, India will launch its ambitious ‘Deep Ocean Mission’ by October to enter hitherto untapped 75,000 sq km of area in international waters to tap vast marine resources.
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#Mission #CIOB #DRDO #ISRO #DeepOceanMission #manned #DBT

WII report on GIB
The critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB) is nearing extinction due to collision with high voltage power lines that criss-cross their flying path, according to a report by the Ministry of Environment.
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#GIB #WII #Rajasthan #CAMPA #NGT #GIBs #CWEL #Gujarat

Repatriation talks with Rohingya refugees
A Myanmar government delegation has met with representatives of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh to discuss creating conditions for their safe repatriation, officials said on 28 July 2019.
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#ASEAN #Bengalis #Myanmar #Bangladesh #Muslim #RohingyaMuslimrefugees

Indian wins People’s Choice Award in US
Renowned Indian sand artist and Padma Awardee Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the People’s Choice Award at a prestigious sand sculpting festival in the US, wowing the American public with his sculpture that highlighted the message of combating plastic pollution in oceans.
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#Indian #US #Pattnaik #PadmaAwardee #SudarsanPattnaik

Arrow-3 system successfully tested
Israel and the United States have successfully carried out tests of a ballistic missile interceptor that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on 28 July 2019 provides protection against potential threats from Iran.
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#Arrow3 #Israel #Iran #missile #Alaska #UnitedStates

Mary Kom wins gold medal
Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom claimed the gold medal without breaking a sweat in the 23rd President’s Cup, asserting her supremacy in a lop-sided 51kg bout final in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia on 28 July 2019. The Olympic bronze medallist pugilist decimated Australian April Franks 5-0.
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#MaryKom #goldmedal #23rdPresident #TokyoOlympics #Asian #WorldChampionships

Labour code on wages notified
Government has notified the labour code on wages paving way for 50 crore workers to become eligible for mandatory minimum wages. The bill got the assent of the President on August 8, 2019 following which ministry of law and justice has published it in the gazette.
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#wages #LokSabha #Independence #MinimumWages #agricultura #Labourcode

First humanoid robot in space
Russia on 22 August 2019 launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station. Named Fedor, short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia.
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#spacecraft #SkybotF850 #NASA #ISS #ROS #USOS #SoyuzMS14

Europa Clipper mission
NASA has confirmed the next phase of development of the Europa Clipper mission – an interplanetary mission to Jupiter’s smallest moon Europa. The US space agency has cleared the mission to progress through its final design phase, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft.
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#Europa #NASA #spacecraft #Galileanmoon #Jupiter

Microplastics in water
The World Health Organization says the levels of microplastics in drinking water don’t appear to be risky, but that research has been spotty and more is needed into their effects on the environment and health.
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#Microplastics #water #environment #WHO #drinkingwater

Largest ever contingent to WTG
With two silver medals and one gold medal, India are now at 25th spot on the medals tally at the ongoing edition of the World Transplant Games (WTG). The country’s first gold at the event went to Arjun Srivatsa, who won a gold in golf on 21 August 2019.
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#WTG #ArjunSrivatsa #goldmedal #WorldTransplantGames

Nobel Prize 2019 for Economics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 14 October 2019 awarded Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer the prestigious Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
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#NobelPrize2019 #Economics #RSAS #AbhijitBanerjee #goldmedal

Qualcomm support India’s NavIC
American chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on 14 October 2019 announced support for India’s Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC), in select chipset platforms across the Company’s upcoming portfolio.
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#Qualcomm #India #NavIC #IRNSS #ISRO #TTFF #IoT

ICA elections
Anshuman Gaekwad, former India opener and coach, will be a part of the BCCI’s nine-member apex council that will be finalised during the elections later this month. He defeated his nearest rival Kirti Azad by 90 votes in the Indian Cricketers Association (ICA) elections.
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#ICA #elections #BCCI #ICA #CAC #AnshumanGaekwad #RakeshDhruv

Nepal, China ink deal
China and Nepal on 13 October 2019 concluded agreements for all-weather connectivity between Kathmandu and the Tibet Autonomous Region.
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#Nepal #China #IDCA #XiJinping #KPSharma #TAR