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Bellatrix built two. Rudra is India's first high-performance green propulsion system, delivering hydrazine-equivalent thrust while cutting handling costs by over 60%. Jal is a microwave plasma thruster that uses water as propellant, which Bellatrix claims is the world's first such system built by a private company. Both have been tested in orbit: Rudra fired on ISRO's POEM-3 in January 2024, and again on POEM-4 in January 2025. Their third product, Pushpak, is an orbital transfer vehicle the company says can bring satellite deployment costs from $45,000 to $25,000 per kilogram. In October 2024, Bellatrix signed an MoU with ISRO's commercial arm, NewSpace India Limited, to integrate Pushpak into its launch missions. The company has raised $31 million to date, backed by BASF Venture Capital, Inflexor Ventures, and Cactus Partners. For India, a domestic green propulsion stack means less dependence on imported hydrazine, lower costs for Indian satellite startups, and export-ready technology in a global market actively moving away from toxic fuels. Kalam asked Rohan to prove his concept. More than a decade later, the proof has been fired in orbit.

In 2012, a 19-year-old aeronautical engineering student from Coimbatore presented propulsion research at a NASA event. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam noticed, sought him out for a meeting, and handed him a recommendation letter with one challenge: prove your concept. That student was Rohan M. Ganapathy. Three years later, he and family friend Yashas Karanam co-founded Bellatrix Aerospace from IISc's incubation lab in Bengaluru. The problem they chose to solve touches every satellite in orbit. Nearly all satellites run on hydrazine, a propellant that has been standard since the 1960s. It is deeply toxic, carcinogenic, and so hazardous that it requires specialized crews and loading facilities near the launch site. India imports all of it. Nobody was building an alternative.

Eggs are one of the most debated foods in Ayurveda. Ayurveda does not outright ban eggs but it classifies them as Tamasic food, recommends them primarily as a therapeutic remedy rather than an everyday staple, and insists they be prepared with specific spices and cooking methods to minimize doshic imbalance. Vagbhata's Ashtanga Hridayam, Sutrasthana Chapter 6 echoes similar classifications, grouping eggs among substances that are guru (heavy), snigdha (unctuous), and madhura vipaka (sweet post-digestive effect). Vagbhata emphasizes that such foods are best consumed in winter seasons when digestive fire (Agni) is naturally strong. The critical takeaway: Ayurveda does include eggs as a recognized food category, but treats them more as a medicinal food (Aushadha Dravya) than a daily dietary item.

Satellite pic shows Godzilla El Niño wave in Pacific Ocean A NASA satellite has captured massive wave of heat driving an El Niño event from beneath the surface in Pacific Ocean. New observations reveal unusually high sea levels stretching across equatorial Pacific. Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said conditions closely resemble those seen during 1997, the year one of the strongest El Niño events, nicknamed 'Godzilla Niño', developed.

India puts gifts received by Indian dignitaries at MEA's Toshakhana for auction. These includes Rolex Yacht Master 11, Glass showpiece of Nine Dragons, Turkish Ceramic Plate, Porcelain bust of Mikhail Gorbachev etc

NCERT has named its language textbooks after rivers of India. The name “Krishna” is named after the Krishna River. The Hindi textbook has been named as “Ganga”, the English textbook has been named as “Kaveri”, and the Urdu textbook has been named as “Jamuna” (Yamuna). Similarly, the Kannada textbook has been named as “Krishna” as it is one of the major rivers flowing in Karnataka. A balanced diet has been covered in Chapter 6 of this textbook. It is also covered under a separate heading, ‘Balanced Diet’ on page 63. The illustrative image given on page 63 includes both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food items. Nowhere in the textbook is vegetarianism explained or justified, nor is non-vegetarian food opposed.

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