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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicSpace exploration

Topic: Space exploration

Space Activities Bill, meant to boost private role, will create confusion instead

Narayan Prasad -
The draft Space Activities Bill, which might be presented in the winter session of Parliament, leaves crucial newspace facets unconsidered.

Indians mansplain ‘planets’ to an engineer who helped land Curiosity rover on Mars

Mohana Basu -
Anita Sengupta, a former NASA scientist, even shared a chart on how men can avoid the temptation to mansplain.

Space exploration is commercial now. That’s how it should be

Michael R. Strain -
Missions like Apollo 11 served their purpose as public good. But it's time for private investment to push humanity out of its cradle and into the stars.

NASA marks New Year with flyby past farthest, oldest body ever explored

Sandhya Ramesh -
The New Horizons mission is likely to transmit initial data from its flyby past ‘Ultima Thule’ by 10 pm IST tonight.

NASA spacecraft finds signs that highrise-sized asteroid near Earth once had water

Sandhya Ramesh -
The finding made by NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is particularly noteworthy because we are yet to figure out how water came to be on Earth.  

China sends off Chang’e-4 for historic mission to the far side of the moon

Sandhya Ramesh -
Expected to land in January, Chang’e-4 will be the world’s first spacecraft to land on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth.

On its 10th anniversary, here are 5 key facts about India’s first space probe Chandrayaan

Sandhya Ramesh -
ISRO probe Chandrayaan was aimed at mapping the entire surface of the moon.

When NASA probe kisses the Sun, a star will spill long-held secrets

Sandhya Ramesh -
Why are the fringes of the Sun's atmosphere hotter than the surface? The Parker Solar Probe may tell us.
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Opinion

Bihar beyond Buddha and Mandal—why the 2025 polls are critical for Indian democracy

Ashutosh Varshney -
It is not often noted, but in the North, Bihar is the only state where the BJP has not come to power on its own. The party's desire to turn Bihar into UP should not be ignored.

What does India owe Rhea Chakraborty? Don’t stop at just an apology

Bangladesh’s economic crisis is a cautionary tale. For India too

Economy

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Udit Bubna -
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

Defence

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

National Interest

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

Shekhar Gupta -
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.

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