Heightened alert issued as heavy rain hits Japan’s Okinawa
Japan's weather agency on Sunday urged Okinawa residents to be on high alert for mudslides and other disasters as torrential rains are drenching the country's southernmost prefecture.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s first soft Moon landing and said ISRO looks forward to cooperating with JAXA in space exploration.
He took to X to write, “Congratulations Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and everyone at JAXA on achieving Japan’s first soft Moon landing. India looks forward to our cooperation in space exploration between ISRO and JAXA.”
PM Modi also shared the post of Mr Kishida who had congratulated everyone involved in the mission for the successful landing of the ‘Slim’ on the moon.
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Japan became only the fifth nation to successfully complete the soft landing on the moon in the late hours of Saturday.
However, the Japanese officials said that they needed time to analyse the precision of the landing.
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