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[ad_1] In yet another proud moment for India, Rutu Parekh, a planetary geologist from Gujarat, and three other scientists were honored for their achievements. Rutu Parekh had an an asteroid named after her - Asteroid 2000HD73 is has been renamed as “Rutu Parekh”, Times of India reported.Parekh had completed her BSC from St. Xavier's College in Biochemistry and Chemistry. She did her M.Sc. from Canter for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University) in Geomatics and Remote Sensing. Furthermore, she completed her M.Sc. - Earth Science Thesis focusing on Martian volcanism and surface geomorphology from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. And now she is working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a post-doctoral researcher at NASA (USA). Kumar Venkatramani, another scienti...

[ad_1] Sharad Pawar re-elected as NCP chief for four years today at national convention in Delhi.New Delhi: Calling it "shocking", former union minister Sharad Pawar today hit out at PM Narendra Modi over the release of 11 rapists and murderers in the Bilkis Bano case from the 2002 riots in his home state Gujarat last month.In a series of tweets, the veteran politician from Maharashtra juxtaposed the convicts' release with the Prime Minister's August 15 speech. He had pointed this out while speaking to reporters in Thane last month. "On the one hand, the PM talks about respect for women," he tweeted, in Hindi, "But in the state from which he comes, where our sister Bilkis Bano and her children suffered atrocities, where her family members were murdered, the BJP reduced the punishment of ...

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This asteroid was just named in honor of an Indian working at NASA

Sharad Pawar Cites PM Modi’s Speech To Question Bilkis Bano Convicts’ Release