China shared satellite data with India
India received satellite data on its flood-hit regions from eight nations and China was the first to provide it as part of a multi-lateral mechanism for sharing space-based information for countries affected by natural or man-made disasters.
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#China #satellite #India #ISRO #CNSA #NRSC

India gets Apache attack helicopters
US aerospace major Boeing on 27 July 2019 handed over the first four of the 22 Apache attack helicopters to the Indian Air Force while another batch of four choppers will be delivered next week.
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#India #helicopters #IndianAirForce #IAF #AH64E #USArmy

Concil trim rate on Electric Vehicles
The Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) on 27 July 2019 welcomed the reduction of GST on electric vehicles to 5%, saying it is in line with the government’s steps to promote eco-friendly mobility, even as it sought a similar cut in spare batteries.
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#ElectricVehicles #SMEV #GST #Amendment #Budget #EVs

UN Report on flooding
At least 600 people have been killed and over 25 million others affected by flooding due to the torrential monsoon rains in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Myanmar, the UN has said. More than half-a-million of them have been displaced, Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
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#UN #flooding #UNICEF #Nepal #FarhanHaq #India

Vikram undergoes de-orbit manoeuvre
Chandrayaan 2’s moon lander Vikram underwent the first of two ‘de-orbiting’ manoeuvres on 3 September 2019 morning. The four-second operation performed from ISRO’s Bengaluru control centre has slightly trimmed the lander’s orbit towards its destination.
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#Vikram #Chandrayaan2 #OHRC #DEM #ISRO #Forging #orbit

Pakistan skips UN summit in India
A 12-day UN meet on combating desertification, land degradation and drought opened at Greater Noida on 2 September 2019 with India taking over presidency of the Conference of Parties (COP) from China for next two years while its neighbour Pakistan skipped it despite being invited by the global body.
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#Pakistan #COP #UNCCD #ISRO #Pakistani #India

Caused of mass extinctions found
Around 420 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction event, known as Lau/Kozlowskii extinction, wiped around 23 per cent of all marine animals from the Earth in the late prehistoric Silurian Period.
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#FSU #Kozlowskii #Earth #mass #extinctions

Apache AH-64E inducted in IAF
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has formally inducted eight of the 22 AH-64E Apache helicopters at the Air Force Station, Pathankot. The Boeing AH-64E Apache helicopters, which are expected to improve battlefield attack capabilities for the IAF, were inducted by Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa.
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#IAF #AH64E #Pathankot #AirForceStation #BSDhanoa #helicopters #MoD

CIMON returns to Earth
The Crew Interactive Mobile CompaniON (CIMON), which is the first artificial intelligence (AI)-based astronaut assistance system returned to Earth after spending over a year on the International Space Station (ISS).
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#CIMON #ISS #DLR #ESA #Germany #artificialintelligence #IBM

Mithali Raj retired from T20
Former captain Mithali Raj announced her retirement from the shortest format of the game on 3 September 2019 after having led the Indian women’s cricket team in 32 T20 matches including three World Cups in 2012 (Sri Lanka), 2014 (Bangladesh) and 2016 (India).
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21377-mithali-raj-retired-from-t20
#MithaliRaj #T20 #ECB #Bangladesh #Indianwomen #CricketTeam