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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicSpace programme

Topic: space programme

Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka to serve as ‘manufacturing hubs’ for India’s homegrown space dreams

Gujarat will focus on manufacturing of satellites & payloads, Tamil Nadu on launch vehicles, and Karnataka will look at the overall manufacturing and assembling.

UP village kids forced ISRO to bring space lab. Now they use drones, building weather station

A Bollywood movie, students with big dreams, a supportive pradhan, and ISRO's leap of faith gave UP's Hasudi Ausanpur village India's first primary school with its own space lab. Now, village elders are learning through science.

NASA cat-apulted a cute video to Earth from a spacecraft 31 million km away. Why this is big

The 15-second clip of a ginger tabby named Taters has become the first ultra-high definition streaming video beamed from space. It took only 101 seconds to reach Earth.

Cosmic treasure! NASA’s asteroid sample that’s landed on Earth could hold clues to origin of life

US space agency's OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, dropped off capsule containing sample in Utah desert. Asteroid Bennu could potentially collide into Earth a few centuries later.

India, US, UAE & Israel announce joint space venture to tackle environment issues, climate change

Venture launched by I2U2 group comprising the 4 countries & aims to use their combined data and capabilities to create space-based tool for policymakers, institutions and entrepreneurs.

On Camera

Savitribai Phule made space for radical women misfits. She pioneered Satyashodhak modernity

The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.