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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Topic: ISRO

TalkPoint: Does it make sense for India’s private sector to venture into space?

As the moon-landing proposal of private space start-up TeamIndus hits a new financial roadblock, experts weigh in on the question.

India has 42 satellites, but needs double that number to meet its basic needs

India plans to bridge this gap with more launches and sending 60 rockets in the next 5 years, ISRO chief A.S. Kiran Kumar said.

Weaponisation of outer space must be prevented, says Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar

India has taken a conscious decision not to have a space weapons programme, despite provocations by Chinese tests in the past.

India can eye global space projects if it can deliver on its potential: ISRO chief

Kiran Kumar says the era of just the government doing space business is over and that industry partnerships are necessary to handle competition.

With help from ISRO, Japan plans to take humans to the moon by 2020s

Space agency chief Naoki Okumura says Japan & India may be in competition, but cooperation on moon mission will help fend off other countries.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.