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Sunday, November 16, 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

Why Tejashwi Yadav failed—Bihar changed, RJD didn’t

Arvind Kumar -
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.

Capitalism is the bedrock of all economic progress. Socialism is a parasite: KD Valicha

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Economy

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Udit Bubna -
Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Defence

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

Snehesh Alex Philip -
ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

National Interest

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Shekhar Gupta -
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.

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