# ISRO

• The India-Bhutan satellite, jointly developed by the two countries, was launched into space by ISRO’s PSLV.
• The satellite will provide high resolution images to Bhutan for its natural resources.
• External affairs Minister S Jaishankar called for harnessing of space technology for improving lives of people while calling the launch of a historic milestone in bilateral ties.

# Delhi government

• The central information commission has turned the heat on the AAP government over its failure to reveal how much salaries are being paid to imams of mosques in the city.
• Information commissioner Uday Madhukar on Friday directed the state government to furnish details to an RTI applicant regarding the money being paid as salaries to imams, pointing out that funds are going from the public exchequer.
• The monthly honorarium of ₹18000 and ₹16000 being given to the imams and muezzins of Delhi waqf board mosques in Delhi is being paid by the Delhi government virtually from the taxpayers money.

# Jammu and Kashmir

• With the number of active local terrorists in the Kashmir division of Jammu and Kashmir now falling to 29, a nearly 73% decline from 109 at the end of 2018.
• There are 81 active terrorists in the Kashmir valley as if now, including 29 locals and 52 foreign terrorists.
• Bandipora, Kupwara and Ganderbal districts are free of local terrorists, while only one local terrorists each is active in Anantnag, Srinagar, Baramula and Budgam.
• In fact, 57 of the 64 neutralised local terrorists this year, had joined terrorism less than a month before being killed.

# United Kingdom

• Indian students have outscored the Chinese as the single largest nationality to get the most UK student visas this year.
• The UK issued nearly 1.3 lakh student visas to Indians in the year ended September 2022 – 273% more than the 34261 in the same period of pre covid 2019.