Discoveries and the frontier of knowledge
Four Indian Air Force pilots, trained at Russia's Gagarin Centre, are weeks away from India's first crewed orbit. The ₹9,023 crore Gaganyaan programme is at its most critical phase.
France is providing life-support technology, astronaut training, and CNES expertise for India's first crewed space mission. The partnership signals a deliberate Indian strategy to hedge against.
Placeholder notation in Babylon, missing years later, matured in Sanskrit texts into a full number with rules for arithmetic. Brahmagupta gave laws of signs; Arabic scholars carried the idea west.
A coronal mass ejection hit Earth within seventeen hours in September 1859, auroras reached the tropics, and operators felt shocks through their keys. Modern grids face a similar but larger risk.
ISRO's first sounding rocket flew in 1963 with parts arriving by bicycle. Sixty years later it became the first space agency to land near the Moon's south pole — for less than a Hollywood blockbuster.