Mission with three satellites from Singapore WATCH | Isro launches PSLV-C53

 

Isro launches PSLV

Isro launches PSLV: The spacecraft carried three satellites to Low Earth Orbit, deploying them at an altitude of 570 km measured from the equator.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) launched three satellites from Singapore on Thursday on its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The PSLV-C53 mission was launched from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

WATCH THE PSLV-C53 MISSION LAUNCH LIVE HERE

PSLV-C53 is the second dedicated mission of NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a corporate arm of the Department of Space. The spacecraft carried three satellites to Low Earth Orbit, deploying them at an altitude of 570 km measured from the equator.

WATCH | ISRO launches PSLV-C53 mission with three Singapore satellites

The four-staged PSLV mission has a lift-off mass of 228.433 tons and took the DS-EO satellite, NeuSAR, a 155 kg satellite, and Scoob-1 of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The spacecraft is also set to test a new technology in which the fourth stage of the launch vehicle will be used to perform in-orbit scientific experiments.

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The mission proposes to demonstrate the utilization of the spent upper stage of the launch vehicle as a stabilized platform for scientific payloads subsequent to the separation of the satellites.

WATCH | ISRO launches PSLV-C53 mission with three Singapore satellites

This was the second PSLV mission of the year after Isro successfully launched the PSLV-C52 mission in February this year by injecting Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-04), into an intended sun-synchronous polar orbit of 529 km altitude. The mission also placed two small satellites, a student satellite INSPIREsat-1, and a technology demonstrator satellite, INS-2TD, a precursor to India-Bhutan Joint Satellite INS-2B.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched three satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. The satellites – all are from Singapore – were launched on the PSLV-C53; PSLV stands for Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.

ISRO PSLV-C53 Mission With Singapore Satellites Successful

ISRO has announced the PSLV-C53/DS-EO mission on June 30, 2022. The launch is scheduled at 18:00 hours IST from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The countdown of 25 hours leading to the launch started at 1700 hours IST on June 29, 2022.

This launch will be carrying satellites from Singapore. PSLV-C53 carries three satellites. DS-EO, a 365 kg, and NeuSAR, a 155 kg satellite both belonging to Singapore. The third satellite is a 2.8 kg Scoob-1 of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

DS-EO carries an Electro-Optic, multi-spectral payload that will provide full-color images for land classification, and serve Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief needs. NeuSAR is Singapore’s first small commercial satellite carrying a SAR payload, which is capable of providing images day and night and under all weather conditions. SCOOB-I satellite is the first satellite in the Student Satellite Series (S3-I), a hands-on student training program from the Satellite Research Centre (SIRC) at Singapore’s NTU School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

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History And Continues To Get Away With It When Hollywood Rewrites

 

When Hollywood Rewrites

When Hollywood Rewrites: While Indian films are always criticised for taking cinematic liberties with historical events or portions of history, Hollywood has been doing it for ages, say movie experts.

In the recent years, Hindi films such as ‘Manikarnika’, ‘Panipat’, ‘Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior’, ‘Padmavaat’, and the latest release ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, have been hauled up for their promises to portray historical facts but failing to do so or using a selective portion to suit a particular narrative to gain mass appeal. Many scenes or even characters in films based on history or historical events and figures are purely dramatised and are riddled with historical accuracies.

However, while Bollywood is being targeted for taking the liberty of rewriting history, Hollywood is the bigger culprit. For instance, the protagonist Maximus in ‘Gladiator’ essayed by Russell Crowe was fictional. No such character exists in Roman history. The World War II events depicted in ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ are entirely fictionalised. Both movies were box-office successes, but the problem arose when a section of the audience believed that the fictionalised accounts are true.

When Hollywood Rewrites History And Continues To Get Away With It

While Kishi says she’s aware that apart from creative liberties, red tape and controversies can also hinder storytellers from delivering 100 per cent accuracy, fidgeting with the past is still unjustifiable. “How can one re-write history in the name of creativity and serve the audience with twisted facts? Tweaking facts just to make the movie more interesting is not fair. It’s not that we don’t have fiction as a genre to explore. We do, and we do it right. But let’s not fictionalise and re-write history, rather serve it straight up with utmost sincerity and authenticity,” she adds.

However, will mere reproduction of facts devoid of experimentation provide moviemakers with a limited area to explore their creativity? Senior journalist and independent filmmaker, Akshay Acharya, tries to solve this conundrum. While history comprises different aspects of human civilisation like sociology, politics, and ideologies, he says it’s important to note that history also comprises science and art. And that both these fields thrive when allowed to experiment and toy around with possibilities as much as possible. He says, “Imagine if the cavemen (Homo erectus) didn’t accidentally light up the fire, our food habits and way of life would have looked very different today. Would there have been as many delicacies on our plate? Culinary art would never have made it to modern life because application of heat is vital for any edible substance.” 

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Similarly, he says, what if artists never dared to experiment? “There wouldn’t be Yngwie Malmsteen or Neoclassical metal because the genre itself is a derivative of metal and classical music. Stories arising from alternate or fictionalised history also deserve to be told. However, such accounts must carry a disclaimer that these stories are a figment of imagination. The onus for consumption of such content would then lie on the audience. It would be up to them what they make of it.”

Even foreign literature, from which a lot of Hollywood historical films have taken inspiration, also tries to fictionalise certain portions of history or introduce purely fictional characters. Writer Sujata Parashar feels while portraying history through films, the makers must be mindful that there’s a delicate line between fact and fiction. She says, “But it’s not easy to draw this line as even history has many versions and almost always been written by the victors. Making a historical film is therefore a risk many Indian and western filmmakers have taken in the past. And it has not been an easy road.” She adds that it is not only films but also historical fiction writers who face the same dilemma. “My good friend and author, Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran, had spent years researching on Shivaji and Sambhaji before she wrote books on both historical figures. When I read the books, I wanted to be sure about certain parts and so looked up articles and history books, and even had lengthy discussions with Medha before I concluded that history and its depiction in movies or fiction novels may be entertaining, but must not to be confused as a medium to educate oneself. You never know when history ends and fiction begins,” cautions Parashar.

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For instance, ‘Inglorious Basterds’ rewrote the end portion of World War II. As the film became a massive global success, all over the globe, many people who didn’t know the real history ended up believing what the movie showed. Film writer-director, Madhureeta Anand feels this kind of creative call has to do with how and why filmmakers want to rewrite history. “It could be artistic liberty or propaganda. There’s a big difference between the two, and filmmakers always know which one it is. Also, it depends on how the publicity is done. In the case of ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, the promos claimed the information should be documented in school textbooks. Inglorious Basterds never did that. When there’s a malafide intention to change history, filmmakers should be stopped from claiming it’s real,” she observes.

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Anand adds that while she’s absolutely against any kind of censorship. She says, “Filmmakers should put a disclaimer and be stopped from making publicity claims that what is being portrayed in the movie is real”. Adding to it, author and screenwriter Amish Tripathi says, “As has been said once, the difference between real life and fiction is that fiction is supposed to make sense! From the dawn of history, storytellers have interpreted history to write stories. Some of those stories have succeeded, and some have not. I think we should leave this subject between storytellers and their audiences.”

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Traffic snarls, waterlogging as monsoon hits Delhi Read more at

 

Monsoon showers lash capital

monsoon showers lash capital: The IMD has issued an orange alert, warning of moderate rainfall in the city on June 30. The maximum temperature will come down to 33-34 degrees Celsius by July 1, the weather office said. 

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On Wednesday, IMD had said conditions are favourable for the monsoon to reach Delhi

The maximum temperature will come down to 33-34 degrees Celsius by July 1, it said

The southwest monsoon usually arrives in the national capital on June 27

Delhi Temperature Today, Delhi Weather Today: Heavy rains lashed Delhi and adjoining areas on Thursday, following which the India Meteorological Department (IMD) today declared the arrival of the monsoon in Delhi-NCR. Taking to Twitter, the weather department today said, “Southwest monsoon has further advanced into entire Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, some parts of Rajasthan, entire Delhi, some parts of Punjab and Haryana today.”

Monsoon showers lash capital after long wait

The mercury settled at 27.6 degrees Celsius in the morning. This comes a day after Delhi had struggled under sultry weather on Wednesday, with the weather office forecasting light overnight rains. 

On Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department said conditions are favourable for the monsoon to reach the national capital either on Thursday or Friday.

The IMD has issued an orange alert, warning of moderate rainfall in the city on June 30. The maximum temperature will come down to 33-34 degrees Celsius by July 1, the weather office said. 

The southwest monsoon usually arrives in the national capital on June 27.

A video shared by news agency ANI showed rains lashed the Dwarka area of Delhi today morning. 

Monsoon showers lash Chandigarh, parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi

Senior IMD Scientist RK Jenamani said there is a prediction of good rainfall in the city on June 30 and the arrival of the monsoon can be declared on Thursday or Friday.

Last year, the IMD had forecast that the monsoon would arrive in Delhi nearly two weeks before its usual date. However, it reached the capital only on July 13, making it the most delayed in 19 years.

Asked about the delay in the arrival of the monsoon in Delhi, the senior scientist said a gap of around five days is considered normal.

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According to IMD data, the monsoon covered Delhi 29 times in June and 33 times in July in the last 62 years. The IMD had in 2020 revised the date of monsoon arrival in Delhi from June 29 to June 27.

Weather experts have said the monsoon is expected to yield good rainfall in Delhi in the first 10 days and help cover the rain deficit.

On Wednesday, Delhi’s base station recorded a maximum temperature of 40.9 degrees Celsius. Humidity levels oscillated between 51 per cent and 70 per cent.

Saturday, June 18: While it has been over a week since the southwest monsoon arrived in several parts of Maharashtra, including its capital city Mumbai, the statewide rainfall activity for a majority of this period has remained low. But this looks set to change starting this weekend, with the season’s first heavy rain spell expected to lash multiple Maharashtrian subdivisions.

Watch: Rain In Parts Of Mumbai, 2 Days Before Monsoon Arrival

Visuals shared by news agency ANI motorists navigating on Western Express Highway amid rain.

New Delhi: 

Several parts of Mumbai witnessed moderate to heavy rainfall this morning, two days before the expected arrival of monsoon in the city. The weather agency has predicted cloudy skies with a possibility of rain or thundershowers for the next two days (Thursday and Friday) over the financial capital.

Visuals shared by news agency ANI motorists navigating on Western Express Highway amid rain. The pre-monsoon showers were a welcome relief for the city’s residents amid the rising heatwave conditions in Maharashtra.

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Including Billie Eilish, Jamie Dornan, Dana Walden, and Leonard Maltin Film Academy Invites 397 People to Become Members

 

Film Academy Invites

Film Academy Invites: According to an Academy-provided breakdown of the new invitees, 44 percent are women, 37 percent are non-white and 50 percent are non-Americans (54 different countries are represented).

 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 397 members of the global film community to join the organization, it was announced Tuesday.

Among those who will henceforth be able to vote for the Oscar nominations and winners if they accept, as the vast majority of people who have received invites historically have: newly-minted Oscar winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (music branch) and Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur (actors); Paramount chief Brian Robbins and Disney general entertainment chief Dana Walden (executives); and film critic Leonard Maltin (members-at-large).

Academy invites Caitríona Balfe, Ariana DeBose, Billie Eilish, and many more to join the Oscars voting membership

According to an Academy-provided breakdown of the new invitees, 44 percent are women, 37 percent are non-white and 50 percent are non-Americans (54 different countries are represented). If they all accept, the Academy’s overall membership will be 34 percent female, 19 percent non-white, and 23 percent non-American.

Seven branches invited more women than men (actors, casting directors, costume designers, documentary, makeup artists/hairstylists, marketing/public relations, and producers); three branches invited more non-whites than whites (actors, directors, and documentary); and nine branches invited more non-Americans than Americans (actors, casting directors, cinematographers, costume designers, directors, makeup artists/hairstylists, producers, short films/feature animation and visual effects).

Film Academy Invites 397 New Members, Including Ariana DeBose, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Sheryl Lee Ralph

This year’s list of invites is two longer than last year’s, which was, by far, the smallest since the #OscarsSoWhite uproar prompted a massive expansion of the organization. The most invites came from the short films/feature animation branch (41), followed by the documentary branch (38) and the actor’s branch (30).

Other notable names invited to join the Academy this year include 2021 standout actors Caitriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan (Belfast), Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter), Gaby Hoffmann (C’mon C’mon), Robin de Jesus (Tick, Tick … Boom!), Vincent Lindon (Titane), Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog) and Anya Taylor-Joy (Last Night in Soho); director Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard); documentarians Traci A. Curry (Attica) and Ben Proudfoot (The Queen of Basketball); producers Tim White and Trevor White (King Richard); and writers Zach Baylin (King Richard) and Jeremy O Harris (Zola),

The film academy invites 395 new members, including Steven Yeun, Laverne Cox, Issa Rae, and Robert Pattinson

Veteran entertainment industry figures who received invitations not tied to specific recent projects include Sheryl Lee Ralph (actors); Amy Seimetz (directors); Scott Foundas (executives); Craig Mazin, Alex Ross Perry, and Katie Silberman (writers); and George Drakoulias (members-at-large).

Among those invited to join the marketing and public relations, a branch was DDA chief Dana Archer, Amazon awards chief Debra Birnbaum, international features specialist Tatiana Detlofson, personal reps Sheri Goldberg and Jessica Kolstad, Magnolia Pictures publicity chief George Nichols, Apple TV+ awards chief Gina Pence (who was central to CODA‘s winning Oscar campaign), Focus Features’ executive VP publicity Stephanie Phillips, Shelter PR evp awards and events Jerry Rojas and Netflix’s US publicity chief Michelle Slavich.

Film Academy Invites 819 New Members: See the Complete List

Several people were invited to join multiple branches and will have to select one, including: Drive My Car‘s Ryusuke Hamaguchi (directors/writers), CODA‘s Sian Heder (directors/writers) and Flee‘s Jonas Poher Rasmussen (directors/documentary)

A full list of those invited to join the Academy follows.

Actors

Funke Akindele – “Omo Ghetto: The Saga,” “Jenifa”

Caitríona Balfe – “Belfast,” “Ford v Ferrari”

Reed Birney – “Mass,” “Changeling”

Jessie Buckley – “The Lost Daughter,” “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”

Lori Tan Chinn – “Turning Red,” “Glengarry Glen Ross”

Daniel K. Daniel – “The Fugitive,” “A Soldier’s Story”

Ariana DeBose – “West Side Story,” “The Prom”

Robin de Jesús – “tick, tick…BOOM!,” “The Boys in the Band”

Jamie Dornan – “Belfast,” “Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar”

Michael Greyeyes – “Wild Indian,” “Woman Walks Ahead”

Gaby Hoffmann – “C’mon C’mon,” “Wild”

Amir Jadidi – “A Hero,” “Cold Sweat”

Kajol – “My Name Is Khan,” “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…”

Troy Kotsur – “CODA,” “The Number 23”

Vincent Lindon – “Titane,” “The Measure of a Man”

BarBara Luna – “The Concrete Jungle,” “Five Weeks in a Balloon”

Aïssa Maïga – “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” “Mood Indigo”

Selton Mello – “My Hindu Friend,” “Trash”

Olga Merediz – “In the Heights,” “Adrift”

Sandra Kwan Yue Ng – “Echoes of the Rainbow,” “Portland Street Blues”

Hidetoshi Nishijima – “Drive My Car,” “Cut”

Rena Owen – “The Last Witch Hunter,” “The Dead Lands”

Jesse Plemons – “The Power of the Dog,” “Judas and the Black Messiah”

Sheryl Lee Ralph – “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,” “The Distinguished Gentleman”

Renate Reinsve – “The Worst Person in the World,” “Welcome to Norway”

Marco Rodriguez – “El Chicano,” “Unspeakable”

Joanna Scanlan – “After Love,” “Notes on a Scandal”

Kodi Smit-McPhee – “The Power of the Dog,” “Let Me In”

Suriya – “Jai Bhim,” “Soorarai Potter”

Anya Taylor-Joy – “The Northman,” “Last Night in Soho”

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