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National Space Legislation in India: Curbing the Regulatory Swamp

India has indelible space time achievements like Chandrayaan-3 and more importantly the upcoming Gaganyaan which has made it very clear that it is a technological powerhouse. The only important piece missing however is a comprehensive national space law. The process of creating a robust legal framework is now necessary in order to maintain the leading responsible position of India as a spacefaring nation.

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India Civil Aviation Safety: A Strained System

The proliferation of aviation in India is overwhelming its safety system, a parliamentary report has cautioned that systemic risks exist in the country that need to be corrected speedily.

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Bistable Gene Expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the most important antibiotic-resistant hospital acquired infection disease, makes use of the bistable expression process to increase its survival and become more pathogenic. Because of this phenomenon, genetically identical bacterial cells may be made to exist in two different states of adapting to a foreign environment, thereby permitting the bacterial population to respond within any given time frame to an unfavourable environment, as in the case of a hospital.

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Productivity gap is a significant issue in India workforce

Among other economic challenges facing India, none is more strategic than the sheer productivity divide, within its very own workforce. Even as the government is pointing to the high rate of employment generation, it has been the aspiration of the country to emerge at a scale of a $36 trillion economy by 2047 and the only way forward to meet that is bridging this widening gap between the formal and the informal sectors.

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Migrants in Bihar Electoral Rolls Face Mass Disenfranchisement

Some part of the 3.5 million voters who were purged in the recent date in Bihar are migrants. Declared as having permanently migrated because they have not been found in a house-to-house verification exercise, they now face disenfranchisement in large numbers. This step which is part of the 2025 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) reveals a flaw inherent in the Indian election process to include the large migrant population in its tally, which can bring into question the democratic rights of an important layer of the Bihar populace.

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