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Punjab students qualify for international space competition

Patiala, Feb 20 (UNI) The Team Force from Patiala has won the Third Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition, winning entry into the International Space Settlement Design Competition to be held at Johnson Space Centre, Houston, USA in July this year.

In the finals, the team's presentation on transporting space settlement ''Cassandras'' between Earth and Mars for 8,500 people, won it a chance, from among 55 teams, to participate in the prestigious international event.

The Team Force had stood first in the preliminary round in which it submitted a design of Space Settlement in the Asteroid Belt named '' Astoria'' in the competition held at Gurgaon recently.

Out of the 55 teams which participated from all over Asia, eight teams were selected in the preliminatary round.

The Team Force had also been invited in January by the American Centre, New Delhi, for video conferencing with astronaut Sunita Williams.

Under the name of company called ''Grumbo Aerospace'', the team worked continuously for 21 hrs at times, Director operations Jaskirat Batra, told UNI.

The following hierarchy enabled proper co-ordination and co-operation among members: President: Aaswant Singh Dhaliwal, Vice-President (Engineering): Saurabh Anand, Vice-President (Marketing): Anish Gaur, Director of Structural Engineering: Jaskirat Singh Batra, Director of Operations: Pulkit Sachdeva, Director of Human Factors, Aaswant Singh Dhaliwal, and Director of Automation Design: Arvinder Bir Singh.

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16 bodies identified, DNA samples of others taken

Panipat, Feb 20 (UNI) As many as 16 of the 66 bodies of the victims of the Samjhauta Express blasts lying at the Civil hospital here have been identified so far while DNA samples have been taken of the remaining bodies. Twelve of the identified bodies are of Pakistanis while others are of Indians. Eleven of the identified bodies have been handed over to their relatives, officials said here today. DNA samples of the unidentified bodies had been taken for.....

Two CRPF personnel among 3 killed, one injured in Kashmir

Srinagar, Feb 20 (UNI) Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) pesonnel were among three people killed and while one was injured during the ouernight recovery of some arms and ammunition in the Kashmir by the valley by the security forces. An official spokesman said a Road Opening Party (ROP) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was fired upon by militants on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway at Sangam, about 42 km from here in south Kashmir district of Anantnag this afternoon......

Night temperatures dip in North West region

Chandigarh, Feb 20 (UNI) Night temperatures again dipped in north-west India today with Adampur in Punjab registering 4.4 degrees Celsius, the lowest temperature recorded in the plains. The minimum temperature hovered one degree to two degrees celsius below normal as many areas in the region remained shrouded in fog. The fog reduced visibility to 50 metres at Palam in Delhi and upto 400 metres at Sarsawa, 500 metres at Adampur and 800 metres at Suratgarh and Udhampur. Cold conditions prevailed in.....
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