Isro to align with 170 government projects to benefit aam aadmi

NEW DELHI: Indian Space Research Organization (Isro), which is to receive the Gandhi Peace Prize on Wednesday for its contribution in many areas to bring about socio-economic transformation in the country, is set to act as a force-multiplier in implementing as many as 170 projects where space technology can be used for a better life.

Details of these projects were discussed during a day-long meeting where Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday noted how these efforts of the country's space agency would put India on its growth trajectory.

Recalling a question raised in certain quarters whether a poor country like India should go for costly space missions, the PM quoted father of Indian space programme, Vikram Sarabhai, who had once said the country was not pursuing its space mission out of competition but out of necessity as innovations of any kind would eventually improve the living conditions of the common man.

#Meatbann

#Meatban: Sale of Meat Banned for 4 Days in Mumbai During Jain Festival

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation announced Monday it is also banning the slaughter of animals at Mumbai abattoirs during the Jain fasting period, which runs Sept. 10-17.

BSNL

State-run BSNL will offer a minimum broadband speed of 2 mega bit per second (Mbps) from October 1 onwards to its customers, at no extra cost.

The company currently offers a minimum speed of 512 Kbps and the move is part of its efforts for revival.

BSNL is losing customers in mobile as well as landline to private operators. The company lost about 1.78 crore wireless and over 20 lakh wireline subscribers between March 2014 and March 2015.

Digvijaya Singh

Digvijaya Singh: Senior Congress Leader Marries TV Anchor Amrita Rai

Singh confirmed that he was in a relationship with Rai on social media last year. "I have married Digvijaya Singh for love," said Rai, who fell victim to online abuse because of their relationship.

ISRO

Indian Space Research Organisation: Agency Says GSAT-6A Satellite Successfully Positioned in Orbit

India's latest communication satellite was successfully positioned in its orbital slot, the ISRO said Sunday. The satellite is the 12th in the GSAT series and has a mission life of 9 years.

12-year-old Indian-origin girl gets top score in Mensa

A 12-year-old Indian-origin girl in the UK has achieved the highest possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test, outwitting physicists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. 

Lydia Sebastian from Essex has joined the one per cent of all entrants to attain the highest mark in the Cattell III B paper supervised by Mensa, the society for people with high IQs

India will launch a second satellite

India will launch a second multi-spectral remote sensing Indonesian satellite that will help the country to monitor land-use, natural resource and in disaster mitigation.

The satellite will be shipped to India tomorrow to be launched at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.

LAPAN A2/Orari will function as a tool to monitor land

usage, ship movements, sea resources and fishing explorations.

The satellite will orbit the Earth along the equator with an altitude of 650 kilometers, and travel at 7.5 kilometers per second - enabling it to circle the Earth 14 times a day.