Ø India and Bhutan agreed to collaborate on the
“noble objectives” of the establishment of Nalanda University in Bihar to develop the institution as an
international centre of excellence. The two sides signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) in this regard in Thimphu after President Pranab Mukherjee
held talks with Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. According to the
MoU, signed by Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and her Bhutanese counterpart
Yeshey Dorji, Nalanda University will be located at Rajgir in Bihar and will
have the power to confer degrees, diplomas and certificates.
Ø India will extend Visa on
arrival facility to Russian businessmen at 18 airports in the country, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has
said. The Minister expressed India’s commitment to removing red tape and
provide single window clearance to investors.
| Artist's imagination of Rosetta probe |
Ø The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft is less than a week
away from landing a robotic probe on a comet — a first-ever soft landing of a
spacecraft on a space object. After
sailing through space for more than 10 years, the mission’s Philae lander is
scheduled to touch down on comet “67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko” on
November 12 at 10.35 a.m. EST, the United States space agency reported. The
landing site, formerly known simply as Site J, now has an official name: Agilkia. After touchdown, the Philae lander will
obtain the first images ever taken from a comet’s surface. It will also drill
into the surface to study the composition, and witness close up how a comet
changes as its exposure to the sun varies. Meanwhile, the Rosetta spacecraft
will remain in orbit around the comet through 2015. The orbiter will continue
detailed studies of the comet as it approaches the sun and then moves away.
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