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

‘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.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21489-insight-won-an-emmy-award
#InSight #EmmyAward #NASA #JPL #SDM #SpaceXDemonstrationMission1