March 2024

Anand Mahindra hopes Gaganyaan Mission astronauts will inspire a ‘new generation of Indians’

As India prepares for its first-ever crewed space mission, Gaganyaan, industrialist Anand Mahindra has praised the four astronauts who will travel into space. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the names of the selected candidates at Kerala’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. Following the announcement, Anand Mahindra made a message on X (formerly Twitter) with a photo of the Indian astronauts, who have previously worked as test pilots and are currently training for the Gaganyaan expedition. “India announces four Indian astronauts for the Gaganyaan expedition to space. I grew up viewing only photographs of American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts,” the...

S Jaishankar met Bill Gates and exchanged books during the meeting

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft. During their meeting on Thursday, the two leaders also exchanged books.Mr Jaishankar uploaded a post on X that showed him and Gates posing for a selfie with their books. “A nice book exchange with @BillGates. S Jaishankar wrote: “And a great conversation.”Gates, who is visiting India, landed in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, on Tuesday. Following his visit to Odisha, Mr Gates arrived in the national capital and spoke with Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. In an interview with ANI on Thursday, Mr Gates said that he...