NEW DELHI: India began exploring the Moon surface
with a rover on Thursday, a day after it became the first nation to land a
craft near the largely unexplored lunar south pole.
Pragyan -- "Wisdom" in Sanskrit -- rolled out of the lander hours after the
latest milestone in India ambitious but cut-price space programme sparked
huge celebrations across the country.
"Rover ramped down the lander and India took a walk on the moon!" the Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on
Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG: BRICS leaders announced on Thursday
the "historic" admission of six new countries from next year as the club of
large and populous emerging economies seeks to reshape the global order.
The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- agreed at their
annual summit to make Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the
United Arab Emirates full members from January 1.
"This membership expansion is historic," said Chinese President Xi Jinping,
whose nation is the most powerful in the group of non-Western states that
represents a quarter of the world economy.
"The expansion is also a new starting point for BRICS cooperation. It will
bring new vigour to the BRICS cooperation mechanism and further strengthen
the force for world peace and development".
BENGALURU, India: India on Wednesday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon south pole, a historic triumph for the world most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme.
The unmanned Chandrayaan-3, which means "Mooncraft" in Sanskrit, touched down at 6:04 pm India time (1234 GMT) as mission control technicians cheered wildly and embraced their colleagues.
Its landing comes days after a Russian probe crashed in the same region and four years since the previous Indian attempt failed at the last moment.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi smiled broadly and waved an Indian flag on a live broadcast to announce the mission success as a triumph that extended beyond his country borders.
The total combined output in the entire Bangladesh economic corridor region is expected to increase from $32 billion in 2020 to $286 billion by 2050 in the business induced scenario (BIS) due to the intervention.
Along the timeline, the total corridor region BIS output is expected to split off from the business as usual scenario output and gradually increase to become 1.4 times of the total corridor region business as usual output by 2030, and 2.6 times by 2050, said the Bangladesh Economic Corridor Development Highlights launched by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital today.