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RIP, Indian National Congress ( Source- The National Interest, Author- Sadanand Dhume)

S ource- The National Interest Author- Sadanand Dhume Is the party over for the Indian National Congress Party? On October 19, Congress received another jolt in what has arguably been its worst year since its founding in British India in 1885. The right-of-center Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) turfed out Congress governments in two of India’s most prosperous states: Maharashtra in the west (home to India’s financial capital, Mumbai), and Haryana in the north, a bubbling hub of outsourcing and overpriced real estate bordering Delhi. Both states have long been regarded as Congress strongholds, but in terms of seats in their legislatures—India follows a parliamentary system at both the federal and state levels—the party has slipped to third place. These setbacks follow the mauling Congress suffered at the hands of the BJP in national elections in May. After running India at the head of a coalition for the past decade, Congress now controls less than one-tenth of the seats in

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PM Modi receives personal belongings of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

GSAT-6 slated for March launch ( Source- The Hindu)

GSAT ( Image Credits- ISRO) Source- The Hindu GSAT-6, the advanced communication satellite that got ISRO’s arm Antrix Corporation embroiled in a controversy with erstwhile partner Devas Multimedia P Ltd in 2011, is slated for a March 2015 launch. The S-band GSAT-6 satellite with five special transponders for multimedia services is “all done”, integrated and should start thermovacuum tests in late November, according to ISRO Satellite Centre’s Director, S.K.Shivakumar, whose centre readies all Indian spacecraft in Bangalore. The 2,000-odd-kg satellite is to be launched on a GSLV launcher from Sriharikota. It was conceived in 2005 along with a follow-on GSAT-6A. The Centre cancelled the contract with Devas in February 2011, reserved GSAT-6 for military use; thereby hangs a hefty arbitration case pressed by Devas in The Hague. Starting with GSAT-16 on December 5, ISRO has lined up a series of communication and Earth observation satellites over the next two or three y

Sardar Vallabhai Patel, The Iron Man of India

Sardar Vallabhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman, and one of the founders of the Republic of India. He was a social leader who played a leading role in the country's struggle for independence and guided its integration into a united, independent nation. In India and elsewhere, he was often addressed as Sardar, which means Chief in Hindi, Urdu and Persian. He was raised in the countryside of Gujarat. Vallabhbhai Patel was employed in successful practice as a lawyer. Patel subsequently organised peasants from Kheda, Borsad, and Bardoli in Gujarat in non-violent civil disobedience against oppressive policies imposed by the British Raj; in this role, he became one of the most influential leaders in Gujarat. He rose to the leadership of the Indian National Congress and was at the forefront of rebellions and political events, organising the party for elections in 1934 and 1937, and promoting the Quit India movement. As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Min

India to launch unmanned crew module in December ( Source- The Economic Times)

GSLV ( Image Credits- ISRO) Source- The Economic Times India will launch an unmanned crew module in December onboard a heavy rocket to test its re-entry into the atmosphere for the country's future maiden human space flight, the space agency chief said Thursday. "We will send an unmanned crew module on the experimental GSLV-Mark III rocket in December and test its re-entry into the earth's atmosphere for a human space flight plan in future," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Radhakrishnan told reporters here on the margins of an engineers conclave. Weighing 3.6 tonnes, the crew module will be put into space orbit 100-120 km away in a satellite and brought back to earth for checking its re-entry characteristics when carrying two Indian astronauts in the proposed human space flight. "Though the actual human space flight will be in an orbit around earth at a height of 270 km for a week, the experimental flight with the crew