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The appeal was initiated by Kings XI Punjab spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who was on the receiving end of a flurry of massive sixes from KKR's swashbuckling batsman Andre Russell in a recent IPL game

Out of the three institutions of science the activist-lawyer has named, HAL existed even before India gained independence. DRDO was a mere merger of three older institutions. ISRO came into being five years after India's first Prime Minister was no more.

 

 

In Mission Shakti, India used indigenously made Anti-Satellite Weapons (A-SAT) for hitting the live satellite target, which was on a ‘Low Earth Orbit’ at a height of 300 kilometers from the earth’s surface

ISRO never got too much of attention of the UPA government. During UPA era, ISRO’s budget hardly increased. From around Rs 4,000 crore in 2009 to Rs 5,500 crore in 2014. What is it seeking credit for?

The desperate Congress, checkmated by the Modi government, still tried to garner a share of the credit for the Mission Shakti success, ending up with a lame tweet that gave rise a lot of amusement on the microblogging site

The Congress on Wednesday exposed its desperation again just days ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, when chief Rahul Gandhi and a host of other leaders could not digest the success of Mission Shakti that has put India in the super elite club of space powers

Addressing the nation in his radio program Mann Ki Baat, the Prime Minister congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation for launching the PSLV-C44 carrying India's military satellite Microsat-R and students' payload Kalamsat

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The launch of Kalamsat took place on Thursday at 11:37 pm, from Sriharikota

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated ISRO and said that India has become the first country to use the fourth stage of a space rocket as an orbital platform for microgravity experiments

The countdown for the launch of PSLV -C44 began at 7:37 pm on Wednesday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The launch is scheduled at 11:37 pm on Thursday

India's maiden human spaceflight mission 'Gaganyaan' would be a major turning point in the country's space programme and allow New Delhi to catch up with global players, former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said

The Union Cabinet had in December approved the indigenous human spaceflight programme through which a three-member crew would be sent to space for seven days.