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India’s Space Odyssey: Robot Prepares for Historic Gaganyaan Mission
India’s space adventure! Robot Vyommitra blasts off before astronauts! Testing systems, paving the way for Gaganyaan mission in 2025!!
Key Points:
- Vyommitra, a humanoid robot, to fly ahead of India’s Gaganyaan mission in late 2024.
- Simulates human functions in spacecraft, testing habitability and safety.
- Paves the way for crewed Gaganyaan mission in 2025, making India the 4th nation with independent human spaceflight.
- Vyommitra’s mission followed by a 3-person Gaganyaan crew conducting experiments in space.
Super-Earth Alert! NASA Discovers Potential Life Harborer!!
Super-Earth alert! NASA finds potential life-sustaining planet! 137 light-years away, water possible! James Webb Telescope to investigate! Exo-exploration on!
Key Points:
- NASA discovers TOI-715b, a “super-Earth” 137 light-years away.
- Within “conservative habitable zone,” potentially supporting liquid water.
- Orbits cooler red dwarf star, completing an orbit in just 19 days.
- James Webb Space Telescope to further investigate atmosphere and viability.
- Discovery adds to billions of potentially habitable planets estimated in the Milky Way.
- TESS mission instrumental in exoplanet discoveries, contributing to over 5,000 candidates.
Assam’s Traditional Animal Fights: A Tug-of-War Between Culture and Cruelty
Assam’s Bihu fights: tradition or cruelty? PETA challenges revival, citing animal abuse! High Court weighs in!!
Key Points:
- Buffalo and bulbul fights have been part of Assam’s Bihu celebrations for centuries, seen as cultural and religious practices.
- Supreme Court banned these fights in 2014 due to animal cruelty concerns.
- After amendments in 2021, Assam allowed regulated buffalo and bulbul fights with SOPs.
- PETA India challenges this revival, alleging cruelty and violation of SOPs.
- High Court considers PETA’s petitions, orders action against SOP violations.
