Khan Study Group

Vijay Nagar, Delhi

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) bid to script space history by sending 104 satellites into orbit using a single launcher on February 15 will depend on critical support provided by India’s own satellite navigation system.

Three years after the national vaccine advisory body recommended the introduction of the measles-rubella vaccine (MR) in the UniversalImmunisation Programme (UIP), the vaccine is all set to be introduced from next month in five states and Union territories as a part of the basket of preventive medications that every child born in India is entitled to.

China launched a global carbon dioxide monitoring satellite to understand climate change, hours after it lifted nearly a week-long red alert for the worst smog that engulfed about 40 cities in the country. The 620-kg satellite TanSat was put into orbit by Long March-2D rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China’s Gobi Desert early this morning.

A packet containing explosive material was recovered from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, was later confirmed as Pentaerthritol Tetranitrate (PETN), one of the most dangerous plastic explosive, “The fact that PETN was found at the spot hints at possibility of a terrorist activity.” Weighing around 150 gm, the packet was found under the seat of Samajwadi Party MLA Manoj Pandey inside the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Following the incident security officials rushed to the Assembly and the recovered packet was then sent to a forensic laboratory for tests.