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Since 2014, more than 22,000 Indians, including 7,000 women, have requested asylum in the US.   New Delhi : Since 2014, more than 22,000 Indians, including 7,000 women, have requested asylum in the US. These details have been revealed in the most recent official statistics.             According to the executive director of the North American Punjabi Association, the arrival of Indian asylum seekers in the US may result in either increased unemployment or both in India. These numbers, according to him, are a big problem.

ISRO releases 1st illuminated image of moon surface taken by Chandrayaan 2                                     The Indian Research Space Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday released the first image of the surface of the moon captured by the Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) payload on-board Chandrayaan 2. "See the first illuminated image of the lunar surface acquired by #Chandrayaan2's IIRS payload. IIRS is designed to measure reflected sunlight from the lunar surface in narrow and contiguous spectral channels," ISRO tweeted along with the picture on its account. The image covers part of the lunar farside in the northern hemisphere. A few prominent craters (Summerfield, Stebbins and Kirkwood) are seen in the image.