Quote of the day by John F. Kennedy (AI-generated image) Most people measure their relationship with a country, a company or a team by what it gives them back. John F. Kennedy asked an entire nation to flip that measurement around. “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do…
NOTE: This is Part III of an ongoing series on the history of India-US relations. In Part I, we looked at the historic ties between the two countries before formal diplomatic relations were established in 1947. The second part looked at bilateral ties under Jawaharlal Nehru. You can read them here and here. The year…
A Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus in 1972 finally completed its journey more than half a century later, though not in the way its builders intended. Kosmos 482, part of the Soviet Union’s ambitious Venera programme, was supposed to explore the Solar System’s hottest planet. Instead, a rocket malfunction left the spacecraft trapped…
