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SC awards Nambi Narayanan Rs50 lakh compensation in Isro spy case
14 Sep 2018
The SC has now ordered that the compensation be sourced from the Kerala police officers - KK Joshua, Sibi Mathews and S Vijayan - who arrested Nambi Narayanan on false charges
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Isro wants industry to play partner in space business
07 Sep 2018
Isro will be setting up six incubation centres across the country to promote start-ups and small-to-medium sized enterprises so as to tap into the $330-billion global space market, said K Sivan, chairman of the space agency
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Isro’s Rs10,000-cr manned space mission set for 2022
29 Aug 2018
Isro chairman K Sivan said most engineering components for the mission are ready and that the Rs10,000-crore mission will be a turning point in India’s space journey
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Isro TV channel to go live in a few months
13 Aug 2018
Isro has also identified 50 satellites to be launched in the next three years, including the moon mission Chandrayaan-2, sun mission Aditya L1, GSAT-29 to boost Digital India mission and replacement satellites
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Isro successfully flight-tests escape system for space crew
05 Jul 2018
The Crew Escape System test comes three and a half years after the Crew Module Atmospheric Reentry Experiment (CARE) which successfully demonstrated the spacecraft’s ability to withstand the rigors of atmospheric reentry
![Isro looks to power India with helium-3 mined on moon Isro looks to power India with helium-3 mined on moon](/organisation/isro/images/moon_jun_sm_domain-b.jpg)
Isro looks to power India with helium-3 mined on moon
27 Jun 2018
Isro will send a rover to the moon in October that will scour its surface for water and helium-3, which, it believes, has enough to meet global energy demand for 250 years
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India seeks $2.4 billion funding from AIIB
25 Jun 2018
India is the largest recipient of the investment finance from the AIIB, having secured 28 per cent of the $4.2 billion funds disbursed by the multilateral lender so far
India keen on more AIIB funds for nine projects
25 Jun 2018
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Opec agrees to raise output by 1 mn barrels per day
23 Jun 2018
Opec members agreed to a deal on Friday to increase oil supplies by about 1 million barrels of oil per day, equivalent to an increase of 1 per cent of global supplies
50 IITians dump jobs for politics
23 Apr 2018
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India moves WTO against US import tariffs on steel, aluminium
19 Apr 2018
India mantains that it in no way deserves to be saddled with the 10-per cent higher import duty on aluminium and 25 per cent on steel as it neither poses a security threat to the US nor has it remained unresponsive to the bilateral trade imbalance
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WTO forecasts 4.4% growth in world trade in 2018
19 Apr 2018
WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo cautioned that the current restrictive trade policies and the tit-for-tat process could hinder trade growth that is vital for continued economic growth and recovery and job creation
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Nasa all set to launch new planet hunting mission TESS
17 Apr 2018
The stars TESS will study are 30 to 100 times brighter than those the Kepler mission and K2 follow-up surveyed, which will enable far easier follow-up observations with both ground-based and space-based telescopes
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Isro successfully launches INRSS-1I navigation satellite
12 Apr 2018
For India, a native satellite-based navigation system will be a major strategic asset, useful in civilian and military fields
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Countdown starts for launch of Isro’s IRNSS-1I navigation satellite
11 Apr 2018
The PSLV rocket’s mission C41 is scheduled to launch IRNSS-1I, a replacement satellite for the NavIC navigation satellite constellation's failed IRNSS-1A satellite, on Thursday, 12 April 2018
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