Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2014 will be held in New Delhi
Ministry for Overseas Indian Affairs announced that New Delhi will host the 12th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas to be held from January 7 to January 9, 2014. The theme of the event is - Engaging Diaspora – Connecting across Generations- with a special focus on the younger generation.
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (English: Non-resident Indian Day), is celebrated in India on 9 January each year to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community to the development of India. The day commemorates the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa in Bombay on January 9, 1915.
Mars mission control centre moves to ISTRAC
After putting the India’s maiden spacecraft to Mars into space from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the control centre of the Mars Mission is now shifted to tracking centre-ISTRAC (ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command network) in Bangalore.