Awesome Day for Indian's

1. ISRO bags Pioneer Award
2. INDIAN ARMY FIGHTS BACK

2015 Space Pioneer Award was presented to ISRO for Mars Orbiter Mission

Space Pioneer award for the year 2015 was presented to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the Science and Engineering category during the 34th Annual International Space Development Conference held at Toronto in Canada during May 20 -24, 2015.

National Space Society (NSS) of USA presented this award in recognition of ISRO’s efforts in accomplishing Mars Mission in its very first attempt.

India realised her mission to Mars in the very first attempt, an historical feat by any space faring individual nation. Team “Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)” has built the spacecraft with five scientific payloads within a record time of 18 months and launched on November 5, 2013. The spacecraft and its payloads have performed as designed during the 300 days journey, traversing about 666 million kilometer in interplanetary space before entering the Mars Orbit on September 24, 2014.  The spacecraft is in an elliptical orbit and the high resolution camera onboard MOM is configured to take full-disk color imagery of Mars at apoareion and close-ups at periareion.  MOM has outlived the “Prime” mission life of 6 months in Mars orbit and continues to deliver scientifically significant datasets.   Team MOM has proficiently handled the scientific, technical, managerial and financial aspects of the mission. 

In 2009, NSS has presented similar award to ISRO in recognition of the great accomplishment they have made in the success of the Lunar Probe, Chandrayaan-1.

National Space Society (NSS) is an independent nonprofit educational membership organisation dedicated to the creation of a space faring civilisation.

The Space Pioneer Award consists of a silvery pewter Moon globe cast by the Baker Art Foundry in Placerville, California, from a sculpture originally created by Don Davis, the well-known space and astronomical artist.

Army strikes back at northeast militants inside Myanmar

Following the attack on our security personnel on 04 Jun 2015 in Chandel, Manipur, Indian Army has been on a high alert. In the course of the last few days, credible and specific intelligence was received about further attacks that were being planned within our territory. These attacks were to be carried out

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by some of the groups involved in earlier attacks on our security personnel and their allies.
In view of the imminent threat, an immediate response based on intelligence, operations were conducted to counter these planned assaults. Early this morning, the Indian Army engaged two separate groups of insurgents along the Indo-Myanmar border at two locations, along the Nagaland and Manipur borders. Significant casualties have been inflicted on them. As a consequence, threats to our civilian population and security forces were averted.
Indian Army is in communication with the Myanmar authorities on this matter. There is a history of close cooperation between our two militaries. We look forward to working with them to combat such terrorism.
While ensuring peace and tranquility along the border and in the border states, any threat to our security, safety and national integrity will meet a firm response