INS Khukri (Pennant No. 49), the first indigenously built missile corvette, has decommissioned after 32 years of service at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
NASA's $10 billion telescope James Webb Space Telescope is designed to capture the first glimpse of the universe shortly after the Big Bang, targeted for an explosion from the European Space Agency's Kourou, French Guiana.
Mohammed bin Sulayem of the United Arab Emirates has been elected successor to Jean Todt as the first non-European president of motorsport's world governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA).
Anukrti Upadhyay has won the Sushila Devi Award 2021 for the Best Book of Fiction for her novel, Kintsugi, which was published by the Fourth Estate imprint.
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