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Asteroid samples tucked into capsule for return to Earth

A NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles away has tucked asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth, after losing some of its precious loot.

 

Flight controllers moved up the crucial operation after some of the collected rubble spilled into space last week.

 

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft gathered pebbles and other pieces of asteroid Bennu on October 20, briefly touching the surface with its robot arm and sucking up whatever was there.

 

So much was collected an estimated hundreds of grams' worth that rocks got wedged in the rim of the container and jammed it open, allowing some samples to escape.

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IMF blames resurgent coronavirus for UK growth downgrades

The International Monetary Fund has downgraded its growth forecasts for the British economy for this year and next, following an acceleration in the number of coronavirus infections over the past couple of weeks.

 

In its annual assessment of the British economy published Thursday, the Washington D.C.-based body lowered the forecasts it made just two weeks ago.

 

Instead of shrinking by 9.8 per cent this year, the Fund now expects the British economy to contract by 10.4 per cent.

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India dealt China border crisis with firmness, maturity: Foreign Secy

India has dealt with the "worst crisis" in decades along its border with China with "firmness and maturity" despite facing the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Thursday.

 

In an address at a leading think-tank in Paris, Shringla mentioned two recent terrorist incidents in France, one of which he said had its origins in Pakistan, noting that the civilised world needs to act with firmness to address the threat of terrorism.

 

Shringla said India and France face similar non-traditional security threats in the form of radicalism and terrorism, and the fight today is not against specific communities or individuals but against a "radical politico-religious ideology".

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Exxon to cut 14,000 jobs as coronavirus pandemic dents oil demand

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Why is corporate America distancing itself from Trump ahead of election

To put it in terms a Twitter-happy US president would understand, it has been more subtweet than tweetstorm. 

In recent days, leading US industry associations, chief executives, investors and business school professors have issued oblique rebukes of Donald Trump’s suggestions that he may not abide by the results of next week’s election if he does not like them. Most have been carefully worded but, as with any artfully indirect social media post, their meaning has been unmistakable. 

Most notably, several of the US’s biggest industry groups joined forces on Tuesday on a statement as striking as it was anodyne

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Can carry only 25 per cent commuters in Mumbai with distancing: Railways

A day after the Maharashtra government proposed that general public be allowed to travel on Mumbai locals, the railway authorities said only a little over 25 per cent of the normal number of commuters can be carried while following social distancing.

 

In normal -- pre-Covid-- times, 8 million people traveled daily by Mumbai suburban local trains.

 

The Western Railway said in a letter to the state on Thursday that it can transport a maximum of 960,000 commuters even if it operated all 1,367 suburban services, while the Central Railway said only 1.2 million passengers can be ferried even if it operated all 1,776 services.

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MEA was issuing million passports per month before Covid-19: V Muraleedharan