Washington/London India has emerged as a”key player” in a growing global commercial market for space- based surveillance and communication, world media commented on Wednesday after the country scripted history by successfully launching 104 satel-lites using a single rocket.

ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C37 on Wednesday injected India’s weather observation Cartosat-2 Series satellite and 103 nano satellites, including 96 from the US, into orbit after a textbook lift-off from Sriharikota space centre.

The launch was “another success for the Indian Space Research Organisation, which is rapidly gaining a reputation globally for its effective yet low-cost missions,” The Washing-ton Post said, noting that India has already sent up dozens of satellites, including 20 at once last year.

The New York Times said that by sending a flock of 104 satellites into space within min-utes, nearly tripling the previous record for single-day satellite launches and establishing India as a “key player” in a growing com-mercial market for space-based surveillance and communication.

“The launch was high-risk because the satellites, released in rapid-fire fashion every few seconds from a single rocket as it trav-eled at 17,000 miles an hour, could collide with one another in space if ejected into the wrong path,” the paper noted.

“Forget the US versus Russia. The real space race is taking place in Asia,” CNN commented.

London’s Times newspaper reported that by on Wednesday’s feat, India has reinforced its ambition to join the elite space- faring na-tions. Many of India’s landmark missions have cost far less than their equivalents in Rus-sia, Europe and the US. Isro’s Mars mission cost USD 73 million, compared with Nasa’s Maven Mars launch, which came in at USD 671 million, the British paper pointed out.

“India, which became just the sixth nation to launch its own rocket in 1980, has long made space research a priority.

The Indian government has increased the budget for its space programme this year and also announced plans to send a mission to Venus,” the British paper said. / PTI /

India emerges as ‘key player’ in global space race: Intl media

B e n g a L u ru / C h e n n a i AIADMK chief V K Sasikala on Wednesday returned to Ben-galuru central jail after she surrendered before a court, a day after the Supreme Court restored her conviction in the DA case and ordered she serve the remainder of her four-year prison term immediately. Sa-sikala, 60 , turned up before Special Court Judge Ashwath-narayana after the apex court earlier in the day refused to entertain her plea in the Dis-proportionate Assets (DA) case seeking more time to surrender for undergoing the jail term.

She left Chennai for Benga-luru in the neighbouring state of Karnataka by road shortly and went straight to the court housed in the central jail at Parappana Agrahara, 28 km from Hosur on Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border.

The court hall in Bengaluru where Sasikala, a long-time aide of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, surren-dered was shifted from the heart of the city to the central jail owing to security reasons.

Sasikala was imprisoned after completion of court for-malities and medical check up, officials said. The judge also

turned down her plea for two weeks more time to surrender and for home food.

Four cars in the cavalcade of Sasikala were damaged soon after it arrived near the court premises, police said, adding, it was not immediately known who did it.

Jayalalithaa, Sasikala and her relatives V N Sudhakaran and J Ilavarasi had spent three weeks in Parappana Agrahara jail after they were convicted by the trial court in the Rs 66 crore DA case in September 2014 before they were let out on bail by the Supreme Court.

Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, whose conviction by the trial court in Bengaluru had been upheld by the Supreme Court, also surrendered before the court. The court abated the proceedings against Jayala-lithaa on account of her death.

Before she left for Benga-luru, an emotional Sasikala ap-peared to take a vow at the memorial of Jayalalithaa in Chennai, thumping her hand twice at the petals strewn concrete structure. Sasikala was seen muttering something which was not audible amidst the huge noisy crowd that had converged there. / PTI /

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sriharikota (aP) Scripting history, India on Wednesday successfully launched a record 104 satellites--all but three of them foreign--from here and put them into orbit in a single mission onboard its most dependable Polar rocket.

Recording its 38th consecutive success, ISRO’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in-jected India’s weather observation Cartosat-2 Series satellite and 103 nano satellites into precise orbit in a gap of 30 minutes after a textbook lift-off from this spaceport, about 100 km from Chennai.

As the country seeks a bigger slice of the multi-billion dollar space launch industry, the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) bet-tered Russian space agency’s feat of launching 37 satellites at one go in

2014. The previous highest number of satellites launched by ISRO in one mission was 20 in June 2015.

A majority of the satellites have earth-imaging capability while the In-dian cartographic satellite is capable of taking high resolution images.

Celebrations erupted among sci-entists at the spaceport here when the ISRO chief announced that all the satellites had been put into orbit as planned.

“All 104 satellites successfully placed in orbit. My hearty congratu-lations to the entire ISRO team for the wonderful job they have done,” a beaming ISRO Chairman A S Kiran-kumar said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated ISRO for the successful launch of 104 satellites, calling it a “renarkable feat”.

“Congratulations to @isro for the

successful launch of PSLV-C37 and CARTOSAT satellite together with 103 nano satellites!,” the Prime Minister said in a tweet. “This remarkable feat by @isro is yet another proud moment for our space scientific com-munity and the nation.

India salutes our scientists,” he said. Cartosat-2 Series satellite, a remote sensing spacecraft with a five-year life span, would send images that would be utilised in coastal land use and regulation, road network monitoring, distribution of water, creation of land use maps among others, ISRO said. After a flawless flight, the rocket first put into orbit 714 kg Cartosat-2 Series satellite followed by the co- passengers -- ISRO’s INS-1A and INS-1B and 96 other nano satellites from USA, Israel, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Switzerland and the UAE.

India scripts history, launches 104 satellites at one go

Space agency Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launching a record 104 satellites, including India’s earth observation satellite on-board PSLV-C37/Cartosat2 Series from the spaceport of Sriharikota on Wednesday / PTI

hyderaBad Noted space scientist G Madhavan Nair on Wednesday said ISRO’s feat of launch of 104 satellites in one go was achieved by proven technology, and the rocket has the capability to launch even 400 nano spacecraft.

“This is no new technology. We (Indian Space Research Organisa-tion) started with ten satellites (on board a single rocket), then went to 18 or something; then it’s 35. Now it’s 100. If you make 3 or 4 kg satellite, it (PSLV) can take 300 to 400 satellites at a time,” the former ISRO Chairman told PTI.

India on Wednesday successfully launched a record 104 satellites--all but three of them foreign--from Sriharikota and put them into orbit in a single mission onboard its most dependable Polar rocket. The PSLV on Wednesday first launched the 714 kg CARTOSAT-2 Series satellite for earth observation and then injected 103 co-passenger satellites, together weighing about 664 kg at lift-off.

“This number (104 satellites) has not demonstrated any new technol-ogy; it’s a proven technology which is being used,” said Nair, apparently refusing to share the euphoria over the launch. / PTI /

PSLV can even launch 400 nano

satellites: Nair

Beijing/neW deLhi China has lodged a protest with India for hosting a Taiwanese parliamentary team and asked it to deal “prudently” with Taiwan-related matters, even as New Delhi on Wednesday dismissed the issue saying no “political meanings” should be read into such trips.

Briefing the reporters in Beijing on Wednes-day, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said, “China lodged representa-tions with India” over the Taiwan parliamen-tary delegation’s visit to New Delhi.

“We hope that India would understand and respect China’s core concerns and stick to the ‘One-China’ principle and prudently deal with Taiwan-related issues and maintain sound and steady development of India-China relations,” Geng said. / PTI /

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neW deLhi Seeking to cre-ate a global-sized bank, the Cabinet on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to the merger plan of SBI and its five as-sociates, a step aimed at strengthening the banking sector through consolidation of public banks.

However, no decision was taken on the proposal to also merge the Bharatiya Mahila Bank with SBI.

The merger is likely to result in recurring savings, estimated at more than Rs 1,000 crore in the first year, through a combination of en-hanced operational efficiency and reduced cost of funds, read an official statement.

“The Cabinet had ear-

lier in-principle cleared the (merger) proposal. It had gone to the boards of various banks which have granted the approvals. The recom-mendations of the boards were considered today and the Cabinet cleared the pro-posal,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in a post-Cabinet briefing.

The associate banks which will be merged with SBI are State Bank of Bikaner & Jai-pur (SBBJ), State Bank of Mysore (SBM), State Bank of Travancore (SBT), State Bank of Patiala (SBP) and State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH).

“With this merger, the SBI, with all these five subsidiar-

ies merging in it, will also become a very large bank, not merely from a domestic point of view but actually a global player in its very size,” the minister said after the Cabinet meeting. It will, Jaitley added, “certainly lead to far greater efficiency. It will lead to synergy of opera-tions within these banks... it will cut down the cost of operations. The cost of funds itself will come down”. The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also approved the introduction of a Bill in Parliament to repeal the State Bank of India (Sub-sidiary Banks) Act, 1959, and the State Bank of Hyderabad Act, 1956. / PTI /

Cabinet clears decks for merger of SBI and 5 associate banks

Beijing Three knife-wielding sus-pected Uyghur militants killed five persons before being shot dead by police in China’s western Xinjiang province, the latest “terror attack” in the restive Muslim-majority region.

The attackers killed five persons and wounded five others in a resi-dential compound in Pishan county last evening, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post said on Wednes-day. The attackers were shot dead by police, it said, quoting residents in the area.

The county has issued the high-est level of security alert after the authorities described it as a “terror attack”. The government did not identify the suspects and victims, but some residents said the attackers were Uygurs, the main Muslim ethnic group in Xinjiang, the Post said.

Armed police in bullet proof vests were on patrol every 10 to 20 metres on the streets of the county. Xinjiang, bordering Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Afghanistan, has been on the boil for several years over Uyghur protests against the large-scale settle-ments of Han Chinese from different parts of the country. / PTI /

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Xinjiang Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas sails to leave Port Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday. The Majesty of the Seas set sail from Port Canaveral after a 24 hour delay caused by a U.S. Coast Guard inspection that

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