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  • An Air India flight carrying 323 Indians and seven Maldivians from coronavirus-stricken Wuhan touched down in New Delhi on Sunday morning

    An Air India flight carrying 323 Indians and seven Maldivians from coronavirus-stricken Wuhan touched down in New Delhi on Sunday morning. It’s the second time Indian citizens were airlifted from China since the outbreak.
    “The second flight from #Wuhan has just landed in #Delhi. We wish all those on board good health in the days ahead,” tweeted Vikram Misri, Indian ambassador to China, extending gratitude to Beijing for greenlighting the evacuation.

    It was the second time an Air India Boeing 747 has flown to the Chinese city at the epicenter of the deadly outbreak to rescue stranded Indians, many of whom are medical students at a local university.

    On Saturday, the first such flight arrived in New Delhi with 324 people, bringing the total number of Indian evacuees to 657. This time, however, seven foreigners – citizens of the Republic of Maldives – were also transported.

  • Four people, including two security personnel and two civilians, have been wounded in a grenade attack in Srinagar

    Four people, including two security personnel and two civilians, have been wounded in a grenade attack in Srinagar, the largest city in India-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, local police said.

    Unidentified militants reportedly targeted a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in the city, wounding two officers as well as two bystanders. A CRPF spokesperson told local media that those injured were transported to a hospital to receive treatment.

    The explosion reportedly caused panic among bystanders who were shopping at a weekly flea market. Security forces have cordoned off the area.

  • India is sending a group of astronauts to Russia where they will be given rigorous training at the famed Cosmonaut Training Center outside of Moscow

    India, which is striving to become the fourth space superpower, is sending a group of astronauts to Russia where they will be given rigorous training at the famed Cosmonaut Training Center outside of Moscow.
    An Indian crew of four is arriving in February and the program “is intended for one year and a half,” the head of Russia’s Cosmonaut Training Center, Pavel Vlasov, told TASS. The center will train a spacecraft commander and spacecraft flight engineers, using the time-tested Soyuz.

    India, which is seeking to launch its first-ever manned mission – known as Gaganyaan (‘sky vehicle’ in Sanskrit) – into orbit by 2022, is apparently eager to learn from Russia’s decades of experience.

    Last year, the Indian Human Space Flight Centre and Roscosmos agreed to jointly screen, select, and train India’s astronauts at Russian facilities. The Indian space program may also incorporate Russia’s life support systems and thermal control into Gaganyaan.

     

    Meanwhile, Indian scientists have independently tested several building blocks for their milestone mission, including re-entry capsule, pad abort test, safe crew ejection mechanism, and flight suit.

    This is not the first time India has sent astronauts to Star City, where the training center is based. In the 1980s, it embedded Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma in the 1984 Soyuz T-11 mission, who became the first and so far only Indian to travel to space.