‘Belt and road’ in Afghan resolution
China and Russia clashed with the US and other Security Council members over China’s insistence on including a reference to Beijing’s USD 1 trillion “belt and road” global infrastructure program in a resolution on the UN political mission in Afghanistan.
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#Afghan #Beltandroad #UNAMA #UN #RAVN #globalinfrastructure

South Asia’s tallest tower
Sri Lanka unveiled South Asia’s tallest tower, costing over $100 million, 80% of which has been funded by China under the controversial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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#SouthAsia #tallesttower #BRI #CPEC #PoK #XiJinping #SriLanka

Astra successfully launched
India's indigenously designed air-to-air missile Astra was successfully test-fired from the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Odisha on 17 September 2019.
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#Astra #Sukhoi30MKI #Odisha #missile #DRDO #HAL

CubeSat mission in lunar orbit
NASA is aiming towards returning mankind to the Moon. The space agency plans on landing American astronauts, including the first woman and the next man, on the Moon by 2024 through its Artemis mission.
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#NASA #CubeSat #lunarorbit #CAPSTONE #Mars #Moon

InSight won an Emmy Award
NASA has won two Emmy Awards for its interactive programming during this past weekend. The space agency won the two awards for the coverage of its InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission to Mars and for its first test of a spacecraft that will help bring crewed launches to the International Space Station back to US soil.
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#InSight #EmmyAward #NASA #JPL #SDM #SpaceXDemonstrationMission1

Tax cut means for economy
In its boldest gambit yet to stir up the economy, the government on 20 September 2019 issued an ordinance to reduce the corporate tax rate for domestic firms and new manufacturing units by 10 to 12 percentage points, effectively bringing India’s tax rates on par with its competing Asian peers.
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#NirmalaSitharaman #Tax #budget #manufacturing #economy #EastAsia

Chandrayaan-2 achieved 98% objectives
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan on 21 September 2019 said the Chandrayaan-2 mission has achieved 98 per cent of its objectives, even as scientists are working hard to establish contact with lander 'Vikram'. Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is doing well and performing scheduled science experiments.
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#Chandrayaan2 #ISRO #Vikram #ChairmanKSivan #mission

Mysterious magnetic pulses on Mars
The magnetic field of Mars at times tends to pulsate in ways which have never been observed before in the middle of the night. But, the reason behind this is currently not known.
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#Mars #NASA #Mysterious #EPSC #InSight #HP3 #SEIS

PTA with Chile
For further expansion of the existing Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), India and Chile have signed the terms of reference. According to the ambassador of Chile to India Juan Angulo Monsalve.
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#PTA #Chile #MoP #TPCI #NewDelhi #PacificAlliance