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♦ ‘NASA’s historic Dawn mission to asteroid belt comes to end’

• NASA’s pioneering Dawn spacecraft — which orbited the two largest objects in the asteroid belt — has run out of fuel, ending a historic 11-year mission that unravelled many mysteries of our solar system, the US space agency said.
• The USD 467 million Dawn mission, launched in 2007 to study the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, missed scheduled communications sessions with NASA’s Deep Space Network on October 31 and November 1, NASA said in a statement.
• After the flight team eliminated other possible causes for the missed communications, mission managers concluded that the spacecraft finally ran out of hydrazine, the fuel that enables the spacecraft to control its pointing.
• “Today, we celebrate the end of our Dawn mission — its incredible technical achievements, the vital science it gave us, and the entire team who enabled the spacecraft to make these discoveries,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate here.

♦ Pankaj Advani has won the Asian Snooker Tour title in Jinan, China

• Nineteen-time World champion Pankaj Advani has won the second leg of the Asian Snooker Tour in Jinan, China.
• He has become the first Indian to win an Asian Snooker Tour event.
• State: Maharashtra

♦ Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has signed a three year, Rs 11crore deal with The Energy and Research Institute to set up a centre to produce “advanced bio-fuels and bio-commodities.”

• This is the fifth such dedicated centre for bio-energy-research and development set up by the Department.
• The others are located :
•  Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
• the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati.
• Transtech Green Power Limited, Jaipur.
•  The Oil and Natural Gas Energy Centre in the National Capital Region

♦ Union Cabinet has approved signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between India and Korea for strengthening cooperation in the field of Tourism.

• MOROCCO: CAPITAL: RABAT + CURRENCY: DIRHAM
• SOUTH KOREA: CAPITAL: SEOUL + CURRENCY: WON

♦ Union Cabinet has approved renaming of Jharsuguda Airport, Odisha as “Veer Surendra Sai Airport, Jharsuguda”.

• Veer Surendra Sai is a well-known freedom fighterof Odisha.
• This was done as per demand of the Odisha Government for giving tribute to the freedom fighter representing the state.
• Odisha:
  ♦Chief Minister: Naveen Patnaik.
  ♦ Governor: Prof. Ganeshi Lal

♦ Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has signed a three year, Rs 11crore deal with The Energy and Research Institute to set up a centre to produce “advanced bio-fuels and bio-commodities.”

• This is the fifth such dedicated centre for bio-energy-research and development set up by the Department.
• The others are located :
•  Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
• the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati.
• Transtech Green Power Limited, Jaipur.
•  The Oil and Natural Gas Energy Centre in the National Capital Region

♦ Azhar Ali retires from ODIs

• Senior Pakistani batsman Azhar Ali on Thursday announced his retirement from ODIs to allow youngsters more chances to play for the national team while he focuses more on his Test career.
• The 33-year-old had been dumped from Pakistan’s one-day side since a flop series in New Zealand in January, where he scored just 12 runs in three matches, including a duck at Dunedin, that proved to be his last match.

♦ MC Mary Kom has been named as the brand ambassador of the AIBA Women World Championships

• International Boxing Association or AIBA
• Formation: 1946
• Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland
• President: Wu Ching-kuo

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