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GSAT-18, the country’s upcoming
communication satellite, has to wait until October in Kourou in French Guiana
for launch after its Japanese co-passenger was found damaged days ahead of the
launch planned this month. The 3.4-tonne satellite would have flown into its
orbit on July 12 on a European Ariane 5 rocket along with the Japanese
spacecraft. The launch company, Arianespace, deferred the scheduled
double-launch after Japan’s Superbird-8 spacecraft reportedly sustained damage.
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Reliving Mahatma Gandhi’s
historic train journey, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday travelled to a
railway station, where the Father of the Nation was thrown out of a train
compartment, an incident that proved to be a turning point in his fight against
racial discrimination in South Africa.
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