Article 370 scrapped
Home Minister Amit Shah on 5 August 2019 announced scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution that provides special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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#Article370 #AmitShah #JammuandKashmir #PoK #JawaharlalNehru


Transgender Persons Protection of Rights Bill
The Lok Sabha on 5 August 2019 passed a bill which provides a mechanism for social, economic and educational empowerment of transgenders.
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#LokSabha #ProtectionofRights #Transgender #TPP #sexual #hijra #aravani


U.S., South Korea prepare military drills
South Korea and the United States are preparing to hold their annual joint military exercises despite warnings from North Korea that the drills could derail fragile nuclear diplomacy, Seoul’s military said on 5 August 2019.
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#US #military #NorthKorea #solemnwarning #DonaldTrump #MrKim


‘Mega-tsunami’ on Mars
Today, Mars is a cold and dry world but many scientists believe it carried water billions of years ago.
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#Megatsunami #Mars #redplanet #Lomonosov #water #Korolev #Earth

Recommendations of Jalan Committee accepted
The RBI board accepted the recommendations of the Bimal Jalan committee and has decided to transfer Rs 1,76,051 crore to the government. This is broken as Rs 1,23,414 crore as surplus for year 2018-19 and another Rs 52,637 crore of excess provisions identified by the committee as per the revised Economic Capital Framework (ECF).
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#ECF #RBI #ADF #CGRA #BimalJalan #budget #Recommendations

Humanoid robot docks with ISS
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a humanoid robot docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on 27 August 2019. The FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) robot is on a planned mission to support the crew and test its skills. It will stay on the station until Sept. 7.
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#Humanoid #robot #ISS #spacecraft #FEDOR #Robonaut2 #NASA

Multiple craters on Moon
Isro released the lunar surface images captured by the Terrain Mapping Camera 2 (TMC-2) on August 23 from an altitude of 4,375km. One set of images show impact craters such as Jackson, Mitra, Mach and Korolev.
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#Moon #TMC2 #Isro #Korolev #Jackson #Chandrayaan2 #Mitra

India’s first woman DGP passed away
Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, India’s first woman Director General of Police (DGP), passed away following an illness in Mumbai on 26 August 2019 night.
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#India #DGP #woman #KiranBedi #IPS #Bhattacharya #KanchanChaudhary

India in G-7 summit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted India’s efforts towards eliminating single-use plastic, conserving water, harnessing solar energy and, protecting flora and fauna for a sustainable future during his address at the G-7 session on environment in Biarritz.
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#India #G7 #NarendraModi #UNESCO #COP21 #Biodiversity