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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Russian cosmonaut who pulled off first spacewalk today 54 years ago beat death many times

Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space on 18 March 1965, but the return to Earth of him and his partner was nothing short of a miracle.

When it comes to space activities in India, are no laws better than bad laws?

The government had put the draft Space Activities Bill in the public domain, inviting suggestions. The bill was never introduced in this Lok Sabha. 

Govt clears Rs 10,000-crore Gaganyaan mission to send 3 Indians to space by 2022

Officially called the Human Spaceflight Programme, the first Gaganyaan launch will be in December 2020 to test an unoccupied vehicle.

Just exactly where is the Final Frontier in space anyway?

Who gets to decide where space begins? The boundary shouldn’t be an arbitrary one.

Junk in space is a huge threat to everything from Internet to GPS & weather forecasts

More than 20,000 satellites, rocket pieces and collision fragments are orbiting earth & present a clear and present danger to satellite operations.

Why IAF fighter pilots are the natural choice for ISRO manned missions

There's the passion for flying, of course, but there are many other factors as well. ThePrint explains.

Pune telescope hailed for discovering one of farthest known galaxies

The Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope has singularly detected several record-breaking objects.

The faces of the people left out of the NRC, and why you can’t click stars in space

Front Page As uncertainty ensued over the 40 lakh names missing from the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, the Registrar...

Black hole 26,000 light years from us proves Albert Einstein’s theory right

Stars close to the supermassive black hole were found to be losing energy, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein almost 100 years ago.

Should India lead the way and set up a colony on the moon or focus on Mars instead?

Ahead of ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 launch later this year, and the planning for Mangalyaan 2 mission underway, there is global talk on going back...

On Camera

72% of Indians are in favour of military rule. Complicates ‘deepening of democracy’ theory

The search for a permanent and coherent popular meaning of democracy is futile. The Pew report underlines this ever-evolving tendency of popular democracy in the Indian context.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

India deploys 11 submarines, a first in nearly three decades 

This deployment by the Indian Navy Friday is a stark contrast to the submarine history of the last two decades that has seen the arm hit by dwindling strength, accidents and write-offs.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.