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Topic: Vellore

VIT’s Team Sammard wows NASA panels with rockets & satellites—no aerospace students involved

Team Sammard from Tamil Nadu’s VIT is among India’s top 3 teams for the Spaceport America Cup. Students from different disciplines are building rockets and satellites and excelling in global contests.

DMK’s Anand wins Vellore Lok Sabha seat after close race with AIADMK

The Lok Sabha polls for the Vellore seat were cancelled in April after large sums of money connected to the DMK candidate were seized.

Election Commission set to cancel Lok Sabha election in Vellore after large cash seizures

The Election Commission is said to have received a report from the Tamil Nadu chief electoral officer on the matter Monday.

50 years before 1857, a mutiny on this day shook British rule in India

Today is the anniversary of the first sepoy mutiny that took place more than 50 years before 1857 rebellion.

In the new statue politics, the media has boxed Periyar into OBC politics

The media portrays the politics of Periyar and B. R. Ambedkar as one of their communities and not human liberation, denying it any universal potential.

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Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.