Defence cooperation with Myanmar
India and Myanmar signed a defence co-operation agreement providing for boosting bilateral military engagement, weeks after the two countries carried out a coordinated operation targeting several militant groups operating in the Northeast.
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#cooperation #Myanmar #India #AungHlaing #military

UNAMA report
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on 30 July 2019 said more civilians were killed by NATO and Afghan forces than by the Taliban and other militant groups during the first half of 2019.
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#UNAMA #NATO #Afghanforces #Taliban #US #Islamic

Consumer Protection Bill passed
Lok Sabha on 30 July 2019 passed the Consumer Protection Bill that seeks to establish the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) to protect and enforce consumer rights.
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#ConsumerProtectionBill #CCPA #CDRCs #LokSabha #RamVilasPaswan #CPB

Anti-microbial peptide (AMP)
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) have designed an anti-microbial peptide (AMP) that, researchers say, can effectively and quickly kill a notorious multidrug-resistant bacterium called Acinetobacter baumannii.
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#AMP #IISc #AMP #WHO #Omega76 #AntiMicrobialPeptide #healthcare

Another warship at Visakhapatnam
The sixth ship of the ‘Class of Eight’ Landing Craft Utility (LCU) Mark-IV vessels ‘IN LCU L-56’ was commissioned by Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam.
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#Visakhapatnam #LCU #AtulKumarJain #GRSE #IBS #IndianNavy #IPMS

‘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.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21493-belt-and-road-in-afghan-resolution
#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).
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21492-south-asia-s-tallest-tower
#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