The satellite has been launched by a Long March-4B rocket carrying the Haiyang-2D satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China.
The British-Indian Chemist Shankar Balasubramanian along with his colleague David Klenerman from the Cambridge University have been declared the winners of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize.
The India's renewable energy sector has been placed at the third position in the 57th EY Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index released by consultancy firm Ernst & Young.