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Information about Pakistan’s first lunar orbit mission

Named: ICUBE-Q

Launching date: 3 May 2024

Collaboration: China

Launching area: Hainan, China  

Developers: Shanghai University SJTU & SUPARCO (Pakistan’s national space agency_

Weight: About 7kg

Purpose: To facilitate scientific research, tech development, and educational initiatives in space exploration

Note: ICUBE-Q has been developed in collaboration with China’s Shanghai University and Pakistan’s Institute of Space Technology (IST)

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·         As of January 2019, the list totals 790 projects

·         OBOR stand for One Belt One Road

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·         What Is One Belt One Road (OBOR)?

·         OBOR, the brainchild of Chinese President Xi Jinping, is an ambitious economic development and commercial project spread across the continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe.

·         Dubbed as the “Project of the Century” by the Chinese authorities, OBOR spans about 78 countries.

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Colombia has opened military service to women for the first time in 25 years.

A cohort of 1,296 women have been enlisted in Colombia's Army in the month of February.

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• Global Innovation Index(GII) is compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
• Pakistan rank in GII for 2020: 107
  
• Pakistan rank in GII for 2021: 99
  
• Pakistan rank in GII for 2022: 87

• Note: Pakistan is Innovation Achiever in 2022 for the first time ever.

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The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is a federal unconditional cash transfer poverty reduction program in Pakistan.

Launched in 2008.

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Pakistan Post had issued 20 special postage stamps on July 24, this year, to locally and internationally highlight the brutalities of Indian troops on the people of Occupied Kashmir engaged in a peaceful struggle to achieve freedom from India’s illegal occupation of their homeland, KMS reported.

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In 2023, Pakistan is ranked 142rd out of 146 countries on the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index.

The index's top position is held by Iceland.

The index's bottom is occupied by Afghanistan.

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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on 2 August 2022.

Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in: January 2019

Nancy Pelosi: only female in U.S. history to serve as speaker of the House

NA23-7-2023

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The Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute (PKLI) is all set to conduct first-time liver transplant operations of three patients under the `swap transplant programme` on March 17, 2022. It will place Pakistan on the list of the countries conducting swap transplant procedures.

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·         As of January 2019, the list totals 790 projects

·         OBOR stand for One Belt One Road

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·         What Is One Belt One Road (OBOR)?

·         OBOR, the brainchild of Chinese President Xi Jinping, is an ambitious economic development and commercial project spread across the continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe.

·         Dubbed as the “Project of the Century” by the Chinese authorities, OBOR spans about 78 countries.