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Topic: Astrophysics in India

Indian Institute of Astrophysics to study sunspots’ magnetic field

ThePrint Team -
Research aims to shed light on corona heating, solar wind phenomena.

Pune astronomers identify galaxy in Milky Way’s neighbourhood as ‘explosive factory’ of gamma rays

Sandhya Ramesh -
Kathryn’s Wheel was formed due to collision of 2 galaxies, but study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters notes that star formation alone doesn't explain gamma ray emission.

Astro labs are the new wave in UP village schools. Delhi man revolutionising physics

+TFP Sandhya Ramesh -
Aryan Mishra’s astronomy labs are run in perpetuity by teachers and students. Villages with even a single lab have seen increased overall enrolment in schools.

SM Chitre, stalwart astrophysicist who once shared office with Stephen Hawking, dies at 84

Sandhya Ramesh -
A Padma Bhushan recipient, Shashikumar Madhusudhan Chitre was a former senior professor at TIFR and ex-president of the Astronomical Society of India.

Meet Bala Iyer, theoretical physicist leading advanced gravitational-wave project for India

Sandhya Ramesh -
Bala Iyer, among the project leads for LIGO-India, says India could be a world leader in astrophysics 20 years from now.

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Opinion

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

Phiroze J Shroff -
If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Dharali floods a wake-up call for IMD, NDMA to buck up—the Himalayan region is vulnerable

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

Economy

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

Neelam Pandey -
New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Defence

We were given free hand, no restrictions placed on us: IAF chief on Op Sindoor

Snehesh Alex Philip -
New Delhi: Indian Air Force chief Air Marshal A.P. Singh Saturday made it clear that there were no restrictions imposed by the political class...

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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