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Friday, August 8, 2025
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Topic: astronomy

An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter could be a new dwarf planet

Sandhya Ramesh -
The asteroid, named Hygiea, is the fourth largest asteroid that likely originated two billion years ago. 

First image of black hole taught us what schools didn’t: Astronomy is more than Europe

Abhijeet Borkar -
It is imperative to acknowledge contributions from all parts of the world to astronomy, and shed the colonial Eurocentrism deeply entrenched in our education.

Are you ready for the 1941 Lok Sabha elections? Yes, you read it right

Abhinav Srinivasan -
Although largely unknown, India has a national calendar that was devised to solve discrepancies of the Gregorian Calendar. And, according to that, we're in 1940.

First moon outside the solar system found. It’s the size of Neptune

Sandhya Ramesh -
The ‘exomoon’ was found orbiting exoplanet Kepler-1625b — around 4,000 light years away from earth — by two Columbia University astronomers.

Jargon-less research is latest ISRO tool to bring the universe to our living rooms

Sandhya Ramesh -
Lack of public outreach and awareness about its work has been an old drawback for ISRO.

It’s all in the stars: Indian astrological texts are full of queer predictions for mortals

Ujaan Ghosh -
In astrological texts spanning over 2,000 years, there are several queer references but none try to offer 'remedies'.

Don’t miss this celestial show tonight: Mars shining bright in the night sky

Sandhya Ramesh -
The planet will be visible from across the country the entire night; the last time it made such an approach was in 2003.

Black hole 26,000 light years from us proves Albert Einstein’s theory right

Sandhya Ramesh -
Stars close to the supermassive black hole were found to be losing energy, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein almost 100 years ago.
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Opinion

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

Shishir Priyadarshi -
India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

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Economy

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Defence

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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