Senior scientist Nallathamby Kalaiselvi has been appointed as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), for two years.
China launched the second of three modules to its permanent space station, in one of the final missions needed to complete the orbiting outpost by year's end.
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