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TopicIndian space programme

Topic: Indian space programme

ThePrint Quiz, 23 August, 2025: National Space Day

On this National Space Day, take this quiz by ThePrint to test your knowledge of India’s space programme.

Rakesh Sharma to Shubhanshu Shukla—India’s space programme is entering a bold new era

Learnings from Axiom-4 will help improve India’s own human spaceflight. Its impact will go beyond policy rooms and launch pads to classrooms and public discussions.

From Sharma to Shukla, India’s spaceflight goes from Russia’s goodwill to NASA’s partnership

With Axiom-4 mission, India is buying more than a seat in space—it’s buying knowledge, credibility, and experience.

ThePrint Quiz, 25 August, 2024: As India celebrates 1st Space Day, how much do you know about space

India celebrated its maiden Space Day on 23 August. In this edition of ThePrint Quiz, let's test your knowledge of space programmes in India and abroad.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.