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Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Thursday announced that the Chandrayaan 3's ‘Vikram’ lander module of the spacecraft has successfully separated from the propulsion module. The ‘Vikram’ lander module was with the propulsion module for the last month in their journey from India's Sriharikota to Earth's satellite Moon.

drone was shot down by air defense systems in central Moscow, the mayor of the Russian capital said on Friday in his Telegram channel. "Debris of the UAV fell down in the area of Expo center," he said referring to a big exhibition space in central Moscow.

Russian regions say that the nation’s CBDC, the digital ruble, will help them fight corruption by “eliminating the shadow economy.”

Investing.com-- Oil prices were muted in Asian trade on Friday, but were set to snap a seven-week winning streak as fears of a Chinese economic slowdown and rising U.S. interest rates clouded the outlook for demand. 

The pilot will begin on 15 August and involve select clients of the participating banks. It will test the opening of digital ruble accounts and money transfers to them, person-to-person transfers, bill payments, and QR code-based payments.

MUMBAI : The Indian diamond trade, which produces nine out of 10 of the world’s polished diamonds and employs over 4 million, could face collateral damage from the Russian war. The Group of Seven (G7) nations, an informal bloc of advanced democracies led by the US, is threatening to halt the imports of certain grades of polished diamonds from India that use rough diamonds indirectly sourced from Russia.

Plain Facts publishes a compilation of data-based insights, complete with easy-to-read charts, to help you delve deeper into the stories reported by Mint in the week gone by. Retail inflation unexpectedly surpassed the 7%-mark in July due to high vegetable prices, Samsung will receive the highest payout under the government’s production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for mobile manufacturing, and Russia surpassed Iraq as India’s largest supplier of crude oil. Retail inflation in India hit a 15-month high of 7.4% in July on account of a sharp rise in vegetable prices.

Israel’s Defense Ministry says it has secured its largest-ever defense deal selling a sophisticated missile defense system to Germany for $3.5 billion

Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are now slightly less volatile than oil as both assets continue to trade sideways this summer.

covid-19 pandemic and the induced lockdown, outbound tourism from China was a valuable international commodity. Statistics from the World Tourism Organization suggest Chinese travellers spent $255 billion in 2019, accounting for 20 per cent of all international tourism spending.

Housing affordability saw a steady improvement from 2010 to 2021 across the eight leading cities of India, even during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut repo rates to decadal lows, the data showed. However, things changed after the Russia-Ukraine war started last year which pushed global inflation due to supply chain disruptions.

Russia which is battling severe economic sanctions... moreRussia which is battling severe economic sanctions and has had to bear the cost of a prolonged war has got richer according to a recent report.

Chandrayaan-3 comes to fruition. In that vehicle is packed not just the scientific ambitions of ISRO, but also the sentiments of the 141-crore strong populace. New Delhi’s lunar mission is all set to make a landing on the South Pole of the moon on August 23-24. Chandrayaan-3 was launched on July 14 and entered into lunar orbit on August 5. Over in Russia, the Luna-25 too has grabbed the attention with its scheduled landing to take place on August 21-23. For a few years now, scientists from NASA and other space agencies have detected frozen water in the south pole craters. This ice could potentially serve as a reservoir for fuel, oxygen, and drinking water, thereby bolstering future lunar habitation endeavours. Both the Russian Space Agency, ROSCOMS and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) aim to create history by being the first ones to venture into the lunar south pole.

Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are now slightly less volatile than oil as both assets continue to trade sideways this summer.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The euro zone swung back into a large trade surplus in June from a similar size deficit 12 months earlier, as imports from both Russia and China fell sharply, data showed on Thursday.

reality for the Kremlin: Russia’s economy has reached its speed limit. The government has flooded the Russian economy with money to keep its troops in Ukraine supplied and insulate its businesses and citizens from the war. Thanks to the state’s largess, demand in the economy is rising, helping it recover from last year’s sanctions-induced recession.

Read more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war Aleksandr Otdelnov owns an unusual tourist attraction: a smuggling museum. Contraband has been flowing through his native Odessa since the 18th century. Until it closed because of covid-19, the museum displayed everything from pearls and pistols sneaked into imperial Russia to more contemporary loot.

Norway’s central bank says it's raising its key interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to combat high inflation

Reuters. The wheat imports from Russia will allow India to intervene more effectively in the market to drive down wheat prices that stoked inflation to a 15-month high in July. Speaking to Reuters, sources said, “The government is exploring the possibility of imports through private trade and government-to-government deals.

Japan suffered a trade deficit last month as exports sank for the first time in two years and five months, dragged down by a slowdown overseas

Kazakhstan is edging closer to the “launch” of a CBDC, making it the latest former Soviet nation to announce its foray into the digital fiat sphere.