Bangladesh PM writes to Modi congratulating India’s landing on Moon
India has made history as its Moon mission becomes the first to land in the lunar south pole region.
Dhaka: Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina sent a message to her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi congratulating him and the people of India on the successful lunar landing of Chandrayaan-3.
In her message to prime minister Modi on August 23, she conveyed her felicitations to the Indian Space Research Organisation and its scientists for making India the fourth nation globally to land a spacecraft on the moon’s surface.
Hasina also conveyed that Bangladesh rejoices with India on this momentous occasion and on this historic achievement, which is a matter of immense pride and inspiration to all the South Asian countries in advancing the science and space technology sector.
India has made history as its Moon mission becomes the first to land in the lunar south pole region.
With this, India joins an elite club of countries to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.
The Vikram lander from Chandrayaan-3 successfully touched down as planned at 18:04 local time
