BASIC countries in making Paris agreement
Nations Framework for Climate Change (UNFCC) Conference of Parties (COP-25) meet to be held later in the year from 2nd to 13th December, the BASIC countries held its 28th Ministerial meeting on Climate Change from 14th to 16th August in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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#BASIC #UNFCC #CBDRRC #UNSG #IPCC #ICAO #IMO #PrakashJavadekar #XIEZhenhua

What is the UN’s stand on Kashmir?
On August 16, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a “closed consultation” meeting on the situation in Kashmir. On August 5, India had ended the special status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under Article 370 and Article 35A, carving it into two Union Territories: J&K and Ladakh.
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#UN #Kashmir #UNSC #UNCIP #Pakistan #India #Ladakh

Konkan Exercise in English Channel
Indian Navy stealth frigate INS Tarkash joined the UK Royal Navy's HMS Destroyer in the English Channel for their annual Konkan Exercise this week. Konkan is a long-running exercise designed to test the ability of the two Commonwealth navies to operate side-by-side during war and other crunch scenarios.
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#KonkanExercise #EnglishChannel #INS #IndianNavy #HMS #Destroyer

China launches rocket for commercial use
A Chinese government space agency successfully launched on 17 August 2019 its first rocket meant for commercial use, state television CCTV reported, as firms in the country compete to join a commercial satellite boom.
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#China #CASC #SmartDragon #rocket #satellites #CAS #TechnologyCorp

Two galaxies colliding
NASA and European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope has just captured images of two luminescent galaxies catalogued as UGC 2369. The telescope was able to capture mutual gravitational attraction between both the galaxies. Interaction between galaxies is not an uncommon event, however, two similarly sized ones merging is one of a kind.
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#galaxies #ESA #NASA #UGC2369 #MilkyWay #HubbleSpaceTelescope

Kartarpur agreement
The Ministry of External Affairs on 21 October 2019 said that the government is ready to sign the Kartarpur agreement on October 23 so that the corridor can be opened on November 12.
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#Kartarpur #Kartarpuragreement #ExternalAffairs #Pakistan

First illuminated image of Moon’s surface
ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 has started capturing the lunar surface and has sent stunning pictures of illuminated surface of the Moon.
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#illuminatedimage #Moonssurface #IIRS #Chandrayaan2


China unveils new commercial carrier rockets
China has unveiled its new generation of commercial carrier rockets which could carry up to 1.5 tonne payload as it gears up to compete with India to attract the lucrative global space launch market.
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#Chinaunveils #rockets #SmartDragon #SD #LaunchVehicleTechnology

Only Indian city in the world's richest list
India’s Financial capital Mumbai is among 20 of the world’s richest cities, making it the only Indian candidate in the list.
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#Indiancity #MukeshAmbani #NewWorldWealth #Mumbai

Dharma Guardian 2019
The second edition of bilateral annual military ‘Exercise Dharma Guardian – 2019’ between Indian and Japan Army commenced on 19 October 2019 at the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) at Vairengte in Mizoram.
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