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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicLand mapping

Topic: land mapping

Landslides to ice sheet changes, ISRO & NASA’s NISAR is the most ambitious Earth-mapping satellite yet

More than a decade in the making, NISAR will lift off from Sriharikota on 30 July. It was built jointly by ISRO and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and assembled in India.

Budget 2025: Rs 100 crore National Geospatial Mission to boost infrastructure mapping, modernise land records

Sitharaman says this mission is in line with the BJP government’s vision to improve governance and service delivery through technology.

Govt plans to use 3D land mapping of MGNREGS work sites to monitor progress, prevent fund misuse

Currently, all information regarding projects is manually maintained by engineers. Rural development ministry has held talks with private firms, IITs, IIITs, it is learnt.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.