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https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FGO5FwsblpT8%3Fs...
During these times of tremendous turmoil, worth listening to Carl Sagan's *A pale blue dot* — https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FGO5FwsblpT8%3Fs... — and, each and every one of us, leaders especially, to make the sincere efforts to take the giant step beyond the "narrow little me, me" to truly what the Ancient Hindu Rshis said — "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (All earth is a family)".
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Patel sounds alarm as Chinese nationals charged with smuggling 'agroterrorism agent' into US: 'direct threat'
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Perplexity predicts layoffs due to AI: timeline+country
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Team Indus (http://www.teamindus.in/) is one of the 16 remaining from the 29 that had entered the $30 million Google Lunar XPrize (GLXP: http://lunar.xprize.org/) competition. It plans to use ISRO’s (http://www.isro.gov.in/) workhorse — the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) to send the spacecraft to the moon. Among it's rivals are – Israeli non-profit organisation SpaceIL and US-based start-up Moon Express. An official designated as ‘Skywalker’, said that such space missions used to be limited to extremely elite people and PhDs in the past. That stereotype is now breaking. “I was just a college student a couple of years ago and now I am working on an actual space mission, how cool is that,” said Karan Vaish, 23, who is helping the team to design the lunar rover. Eighty per cent of the team is reported to be less than five years out of college (http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/young-grads-aim-to-land-a-robot-on-the-moon/article9043063.ece?w=alauto).
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In a desperate bid to halve the teeming vehicular population of the National Capital , the government on Friday decided that vehicles with odd and even number plates would be allowed on alternate days only from January 1, 2016. Emergency and public vehicles along with carpools will be exempt from the restrictions. The emergency meeting where the decision was taken after a Delhi High Court observation that living in Delhi was akin to living in a gas chamber.
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Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has blamed fans of Harry Potter for the demise of wild owls in the country as children seek to emulate the boy wizard by taking the birds as pets. Following Harry Potter, there seems to be a strange fascination even among the urban middle classes for presenting their children with owls," Ramesh said Wednesday, according to comments reported by the BBC.
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Last weekend saw the world's largest aerostat of it's kind featured at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The helium balloon or aerostat measures 40x80x12 meters, contains 20,000 cubic meters of helium and features lights, mirrors, cameras, a 360 degree projection screen, projectors and a reflective underbelly. During the show, it was raised 25 meters off the ground and transformed into a giant Bodhi Tree, a meditating Buddha, with giant puppets to complement the cultural performances beneath. These slideshows tell the story.
