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India is on the moon!

On August 23, 2023, India made history by gently landing
a spacecraft on the Moon's South Pole. India is the fourth
country in the world to achieve this incredible feat, with the
others being the United States, Russia, and China.
In 2014, India also joined an elite group by successfully
placing a spacecraft in orbit around Mars, becoming the
fourth country to do so, alongside the United States,
Russia, and the European Union. Since then, the United
Arab Emirates and China have also accomplished this,
and China is the second country to land a rover on Mars.
This recent lunar landing was part of the Chandrayaan III
mission, which followed the Chandrayaan II mission in
2019. In the previous attempt, contact with the lander was
lost, and it crashed on the Moon. However, this time, ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization,
learned from its past experience and made improvements. The new lander, equipped with a special camera
(Lander Hazard Detection and Avoidance Camera), could find a safe landing spot on its own, communicate
with the orbiter, and recharge its batteries independently.

BRICS adds six new members

The 15th BRICS Summit took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from
August 22 to 24, 2023.
During the summit, the BRICS Bloc made an exci ng announcement. They
decided to invite six more countries to join their group. This means that
the current BRICS members, which are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and
South Africa, have all agreed to welcome these new countries into their
bloc.
The invited countries are:
1. Iran
2. United Arab Emirates (UAE)
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Ethiopia
5. Egypt
6. Argen na
This expansion of the BRICS group is a significant development that brings
more na ons together to work on important global issues.