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"And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators": ISRO successfully launched GSLV-F12/NVS-01 Mission from SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota, NVS-01 first of the India's second-generation NavIC satellites that accompany enhanced features
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NavIC, which stands for Navigation with Indian Constellation, is the operational name given to the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light": We studied that speed of light was discovered by Ole Roemer (1676), well in reality Rig Veda contains the accurate speed of light in one of its shlokas thousands of years ago
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Salutations to Thee (the Sun) who approacheth (at a speed of) 2202 yojanas in a nimishardha
"The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people": Fascinating map of all the places of ancient India as mentioned in Mahabharata, put on display in Purana Qila, which is the ancient Indraprastha of Mahabharata
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Mahābhārata is simply the encyclopaedia of ancient India. The geographical details are very comprehensive
"Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth": It was not Isaac Newton but Rishi Kanad who first discovered "Laws of Motion" at least 2000 years before Newton in his Vaishesika Sutras, was also known as "Father of Atomic Theory"
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The cultural, religious, social, literary, and political life of the people of the Vedic period is well documented in four Vedas: Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharvana
“Realize that everything connects to everything else”: Your brain is primarily composed of about 90 billion neurons, more than the number of stars you can see with the naked eye in night sky, How neurons make connections is how we form new memories
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When you are learning, important changes take place in your brain, including the creation of new connections between your neurons
"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more": Patayat Sahu, from Kalahandi spent his entire life making an astonishing garden of 3000 medicinal plants and catalogued them in two illustrated volumes, this year’s recipient of Padma Shri
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Patayat Sahu has grown 3,000 medicinal plants in only 1.5 acres of land behind his small house. He has documented a large number of these plants
"Neglect will drive a noble mind to depart for another land": Brilliant mind - Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay who created India's first and world's second test tube baby 'Durga' in 1978 with the help of some general equipment and refrigerator was punished for it
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He eventually committed suicide in 1981 after failing to get recognition. He could not handle constant criticism and the outright harassment he was subjected to
"Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you": India gearing up to launch its own manned space mission, ‘Gaganyaan’ will make India fourth country to send humans into space, a step towards the 'Grand Space Ambitions'
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By 2047, almost one-third of the global space economy will be run by India
"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information": Father of Surgery - World`s First Surgeon was Maharishi Sushruta who performed surgeries on nose, ears, bladder, cataracts, fistula, joints, and hemorrhage more than 2600 ago with surgical instruments
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Much of what is known about this inventive surgeon is contained in a series of volumes he authored, which are collectively known as the Sushruta Samhita
The legend and a genius that was Jagadish Chandra Bose: Champion of East and West Who Almost Invented the Radio
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Bose’s contribution to science was not limited to his work. He not only challenged the dominant world scientific paradigm of his time but also the practice of commercialising knowledge through patents. He believed knowledge belonged to everyone, and so when he set up the Bose Institute in Calcutta, he stipulated that no patents were to be taken on works done at the institute














