Odisha plans roadshows abroad to attract investments
Bhubaneswar, June 30: The Odisha government has planned to organise roadshows in Italy, Germany and Saudi Arabia to attract investments ahead of the Make in Odisha Conclave, a minister said on Saturday.
A 13-member team is scheduled to visit different countries to meet and woo investors for the Make in Odisha Conclave, which is to be held in Bhubaneswar from November 11 to November 15.
Industries Minister Ananta Das said in the first phase, the team will visit three countries, Italy, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
The tour is scheduled from July 1 to July 10, he added.
The team will be led by Odisha Industries Minister Ananta Das and department secretary Sanjeev Chopra.
The team would showcase its investment potential and the slew of measures taken for ease of doing business to the foreign companies during the tour.
In the second phase, the team will be visiting China, South Korea and Japan during the first or second week of August, informed the Minister.
Notably, the state government has partnered with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for the second Make in Odisha conclave after the Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) withdrawal from the conclave.
At the inaugural edition of Make in Odisha in December 2016, Odisha drew investment intents valued at Rs 2.03 trillion at the event.
Sixty per cent of those investments are now in various stages of approval or implementation, said the minister.
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ISRO successfully conducts second integrated air drop test for Gaganyaan mission
New Delhi (PTI): Space agency ISRO has successfully conducted the second integrated air drop test (IADT-02) for the upcoming Gaganyaan mission at the space station in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
The system is essential to ensure a safe recovery of the crew module -- the capsule in which astronauts sit during a human flight -- during re-entry and landing.
Union minister Jitendra Singh congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for successfully conducting the test.
"Congratulations #ISRO for the successful accomplishment of Second Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-02) for #Gaganyaan, India's first Human Space flight scheduled next year. The second Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-02) was successfully conducted at Satish Dhawan Space Station Sriharikota," Singh said in a post on X.
The IADT-02 follows the successful completion of the first IADT, which took place on August 24, 2025, at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
Air drop tests recreate the last leg of a spacecraft's return to Earth. An aircraft or helicopter drops the spacecraft from a height to test various systems under different scenarios.
These are the deployment of the parachute system in case the mission is aborted mid-flight, system performance when one parachute fails to open and the spacecraft's orientation and safety during splashdown etc.
In the IADT-02 test, a simulated crew module, weighing about 5.7 tonnes, was lifted by an Indian Air Force Chinook helicopter to an altitude of about three kilometres and released over a designated drop zone in the sea, near the Sriharikota coast.
In a statement, the ISRO said, "Ten parachutes of four types were deployed in a precise sequence during the descent of the crew module, gradually reducing the velocity for safe touchdown. Subsequently, the simulated crew module was successfully recovered in coordination with the Indian Navy."
