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Sagar Maitri Mission-2
Oceanographic research vessel of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), INS Sagardhwani, embarked on a two-month long SAGAR MAITRI (SM) Mission-2 from South Jetty, Southern Naval Command (SNC) in Kochi. Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh has extended his warm wishes for the success of the Mission.
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#Mission2 #SagarMaitri #SNC #DRDO #IORA #IIOE #NPOL #RajnathSingh

ARLS with Russia
India is close to inking a key defence logistics sharing pact which will place it as a rare nation that has such a strategic agreement with both of the old cold war rivals – the US and Russia.
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#ARLS #Russia #LEMOA #GSOMIA #India #CISMOA #BECA

Moon as a way station for Mars
Unlike the Apollo program that put astronauts on the moon 50 years ago, NASA is gearing up for a long term presence on Earth’s satellite that the agency says will eventually enable humans to reach Mars.
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#Moon #Mars #RedPlanet #NASA #SpaceX #satellite #Earth

NHRC amendment bill passed
The Lok Sabha on 19 July 2019 passed a bill to expedite the process of appointment of chairperson and members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) after the government assured steps were being taken "round-the-clock" to protect human rights.
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#NHRC #amendment #GANHRI #LokSabha #NityanandRai #SupremeCourt

India's 64th Grandmaster
Delhi's Prithu Gupta has become India's 64th Grandmaster, crossing the Elo threshold of 2500 points after beating IM Lev Yankelevich in the fifth round of the Portuguese League 2019. Gupta, who picked up the sport as a nine-year-old, has achieved the sensational feat at the age of 15 years, 4 months and 10 days.
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#India #Grandmaster #PrithuGupta #ELO #Delhi #DGukesh #IM
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
UNICEF Report on malnutrition
Malnutrition caused 69 per cent of deaths of children below the age of five in India, according to a UNICEF report released. In its report — The State of the World’s Children 2019, UNICEF said that every second child in that age group is affected by some form of malnutrition.
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#UNICEF #malnutrition #NNM #POSHAN #India


FATF retains Pakistan in Grey List
International terror financing watchdog FATF on 18 October 2019 retained Pakistan on the Grey List and warned the country of action for its failure in combating money laundering and terror financing.
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#FATF #Pakistan #GreyList #FinancialAction #TaskForce

BREXIT deal sealed
The long-awaited BREXIT deal has finally been sealed but it is too early to draw inferences on its implications on India as the minutes of the deal have not yet been disclosed.
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#BREXIT #India #BorisJohnson #EuropeanUnion

Global Tuberculosis Report 2019
The Global Tuberculosis Report 2019 cites that nearly 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year. The report categorically establishes that TB is one of the top 10 causes of death, ranking above HIV/ AIDS.
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#GTR #GlobalTuberculosisReport2019 #HIV #AIDS #MDR #HBC

Insight lander starts digging
NASA’s InSight lander has dug nearly 2 centimetres (3/4 of an inch) into the surface of Mars with the help of its heat probe called “the mole”, the US space agency has announced.
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#NASA #Mars #Martiansoil #HP3 #spacecraft #redplanet
ICAR sign deal with Nabard
With a view to promote sustainable agriculture and climate resilient farming systems the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Board of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to facilitate the action research (the research carried out with the active participation of farmers to provide solutions for the challenges) and up-scaling of the various technologies and innovative farmer models developed by the ICAR that includes the successful climate resilient practices, models and integrated and hi-tech farming practices in a participatory model through adoptive research on watershed platform.
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#ICAR #MoU #Nabard #NABARD #HRD #Agriculture

No significant progress made in COP25
Unable to make any significant progress on main agenda issues such as the creation of new carbon markets, as was expected, discussions on contentious issues at the Madrid climate talks are set to be postponed to next year.
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#COP25 #India #supervisorybody #KyotoProtocol #humanrights

China, U.S. announce trade deal
The United States and China cooled their trade war on 13 December 2019, announcing a “phase one” agreement that reduces some U.S. tariffs in exchange for increased Chinese purchases of American farm goods.
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#China #DonaldTrump #WhiteHouse #UnitedStates #USTR

National Ganga Council meeting
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 14 December 2019 chaired the first meeting of National Rejuvenation, Protection and Management of River Ganga Council (National Ganga Council) at Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology in Kanpur.
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#NGC #NarendraModi #Kanpur #NationalGangaCouncil #CETP #NMCG

Wind flow pattern on Mars
NASA scientists have mapped the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of Mars- 120 to 300 kilometers above the Red Planet's surface.
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#Mars #NASA #UMBC #MAVEN #NGIMS #RedPlanet
UN draft treaty to combat cybercrime
The UN General Assembly approved a resolution on 27 December 2019 that will start the process of drafting a new international treaty to combat cybercrime over objections from the European Union, the United States and other countries.
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#UN #cybercrime #Russian #CherithNormanChalet #resolution

UN ups 2020 budget
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a USD 3.07-billion operating budget which for the first time includes funding for the investigation of war crimes in Syria and Myanmar.
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#budget #UN #Muslim #GeneralAssembly #Myanmar

U.N. condemns human rights abuses against Rohingya
The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution on 27 December 2019 strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention.
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#Rohingya #RohingyaMuslims #Myanmar #humanrights

Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life
The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said as they unveiled the vehicle.
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#Mars2020 #NASA #RedPlanet #Earth #JPL