- Under the government’s latest re-opening guidelines issued on September 30, cinema halls, theatres and multiplexes will be allowed to reopen with up to 50 percent of their seating capacity in areas outside containment zones with effect from October 15. The SOPs for the same will be issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
- A Chinese private company, Origin Space is planning to send out the world’s first asteroid mining robot into space in November 2020. The robot has been named ‘asteroid mining robot’ by the space start-up.
- The United States announced over a dozen sanctions against Syrian individuals and entities on September 30, 2020 to further put pressure on the Syrian government.
- The Indian National Congress is launching a ‘Kisan Yatra’ from Punjab against the recent farm reform bills. The Yatra will begin this week from Punjab’s Sangrur district and will end in Delhi covering various districts of Punjab and Haryana.
- The Indian Space of Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch its Venus Mission in 2025 along with participation from French Space Agency CNES (The National Centre for Space Studies).
- The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to extend the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger services to and from India till October 31, 2020.
- The Zombie fire is a fire that is leftover from the previous growing season that can burrow into the rich organic material beneath the surface that is made up of carbon-rich peat and smoulder under the snowpack throughout the frigid winter. When the weather warms, the fire reignites and refuses to die, as per a study by scientists from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado in the United States.
- Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet republics have been locked in a decades-long territorial dispute with deadly fighting erupting recently.
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