Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17, 1962, to a Punjabi Hindu family in Karnal, Haryana. She was the Indian-origin woman and second Indian to fly in space. She died along with her six other crew members in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in 2003.
The US space agency, NASA, successfully launched the third in a series of four next-generation weather satellites, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has extended the tenure of its current managing director & chief executive officer (MD & CEO) Tapan Singhel for another five years.
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