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July 2009 
India Becomes The Fourth Country to Land Its Flag On The Moon
sanmugan
Source: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/India%27s_flag_landed_on_Moon
INDIA, November 15, 2008: At 8:34 p.m. Indian time Friday night, India became the fourth country to land its flag on the Moon. The unmanned lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 ejected its Moon Impact Probe, which hurtled across the surface of the Moon at 1.5 kilometers per second (3,000 miles per hour), and successfully crash landed near the Moon's south pole.
Chandrayaan-1 (meaning "moon craft" in Sanskrit) reached its target lunar orbit on Wednesday. The orbiter will remain in a circular orbit 102 kilometres above the Moon's surface for two years. Its instruments will be gradually commissioned over the next few days. With this landing, India became both the fourth country to place a flag on the Moon and the fifth group to send a spacecraft to the Moon
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Congratulations to the people of India! India is on a race towards modernity. I picked up randomly some former blog entries which reflect the rich diversity of modernizing India:
Empowering Lives of Underserved Populations in India
Dateline India: Coming Home
How a Muslim Billionair Thrives in Hindu India
Albert
Adding these ones:
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Thanks a lot for providing more details.
Today in our local news paper, I read about the present prime minister, Hon.Man mohan singh, is the person who laid the foundation for all these present development while he was the finance minister. Now others are reaping the benefits.
A country like India- with roundabout 1 billion inhabitants -need certainly tens of thousands opf leaders. From all walks of life.
I see the entrpreneurial soul of India too. No matter if its about social entrpreneurship or conventional one.
And the community of Indias expats all over the world.