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Friday, June 20, 2025
TopicGaganyaan project

Topic: Gaganyaan project

IAF gets to work, begins picking the Indians who will go to space on ISRO’s Gaganyaan

The IAF will initially shortlist 10 potential candidates, of whom, three, including a woman, will make up the crew for the mission.

Govt clears Rs 10,000-crore Gaganyaan mission to send 3 Indians to space by 2022

Officially called the Human Spaceflight Programme, the first Gaganyaan launch will be in December 2020 to test an unoccupied vehicle.

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Why betting on a reformed Iran could be a mistake for India

Yusuf T Unjhawala’s argument that a secular and reform-oriented regime in Iran could be less prone to aligning with India’s adversaries raises some pertinent questions.

More salaried than self-employed Indians earning less than Rs 25k a month face borrower stress—study

Think360.ai, a firm that helps banks & financial institutions make credit decisions, based its analysis on 20k borrowers. 

What are US ‘bunker buster’ bombs & stealth bombers than can strike Iran’s nuclear mountain

Both GBU-57 munition & B-2 stealth fighter is with America. Moreover, Israel does not have any aircraft in its inventory to carry out such a challenging mission.

India-Pakistan terms of engagement: H-word, M-word & the Trump hyphenation

Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.