Pragya or Prajna in Sanskrit means intelligence, wisdom, or enlightenment. Last week witnessed India’s “Pragya” scaling amazing heights to touch the moon, literally. On August 23, Chandrayaan-3 made India the fourth nation to soft-land on the moon and
As the cameras showed the simulated image of the lunar lander Vikram touching down softly on the moon, the soul of a nation (to borrow a phrase from Jawaharlal Nehru s 14 August 1947 speech) found utterance: India was over the moon about landing on the Moon. And it was also the moment when a few hundred avowedly nerdy looking scientists at the mission control centre at Sriharikota became the darlings of over a billion proud Indians around the world.
The world’s strongest Swiss-system chess event, the FIDE Grand Swiss, is set to be played on the Isle of Man from October 23 to November 6, 2023. At the end of July, FIDE announced that 100 players had already confirmed their participation in the Grand Swiss and 40 players in the Women’s Grand Swiss. However, wild cards are still being distributed, and it was just announced that two of them will go to the exceptional young talents, IMs Ihor Samunenkov from Ukraine and Ediz Gurel (pictured) from Turkey. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
Nagpur: City’s first Grandmaster (GM) Raunak Sadhwani proved his mettle by winning silver in the second leg of summer classic tournament organized by .