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ISRO, NASA’s sharped-eyed NISAR satellite reaches orbit, countdown to science phase begins

World's most powerful Earth observation satellite will produce high-res images & data on various aspects of globe, including info to predict landslides, volcanoes, floods, earthquakes.

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.

ISRO in for busy 2025 with SpaDeX docking experiment, NISAR launch, Gaganyaan test flight on the cards

The upcoming launches will set the stage for Chandrayaan-4, boost India’s navigational capabilities and demonstrate its docking and human spaceflight prowess.

US C-130 en route to India with critical payload: NISAR’s radar antenna reflector

NISAR is Low Earth Orbit observatory being developed to map the globe in 12 days, and gather data that will provide insights into Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, sea level rise, etc.

To avoid eclipses, joint NASA-ISRO observatory NISAR won’t take flight before February 2025

NASA & ISRO’s NISAR observatory will map entire globe in 12 days, gathering data on Earth's ecosystems, ice mass, sea level rise & natural hazards including earthquakes.

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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.