'Compu Guru' Puttur Hanif in top 20 list of Abu Dhabi Big ticket competition
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What and Why?
Muhammed Hanif, son of Abbas Haji, a daily wage worker from Balleri in Aryapu village in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district is currently working as a software engineer at Muhammed Bin Rashid space centre lab of Dubai university.
Hanif is striving hard for the prosperity of the people of his village and is quietly serving the poor people. He is also the director of UAE zone of Mangaluru M Friends.
Hanif was born and brought up in a poor family. His father was daily wage worker. Due to his hard work Hanif managed to complete engineering in electronics and communication from Malnad engineering college.
What is Big Ticket?
‘Dear Big Ticket’ competition is being organised at Abu Dhabi international airport in association with duty free, Asia net. Earlier Big Ticker used to give away million dirham cash prize and international brand car as prize. But this time Big Ticket has invited the people with special offers.
The organisers have sought answer for one Big question: What a person will do if he wins 10 million dirham (Rs.20 crores)? More than 20,000 people have applied for the competition and Big ticket has already selected the top 20 contestants. Muhammed Hanif from Puttur is one of them.
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India harbouring big and bold dreams in space sector: Shubhanshu Shukla
Kolkata (PTI): Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to go to the International Space Station, on Wednesday said the country is harbouring “big and bold dreams”, foraying into human spaceflight after a hiatus of 41 years.
Shukla was the first Indian to visit the International Space Station as part of the Axiom-4 mission. He returned to India from the US on August 17, 2025, after the 18-day mission.
The space is a “great place to be”, marked by deep peace and an “amazing view” that becomes more captivating with time, he said, interacting with schoolchildren at an event organised by the Indian Centre for Space Physics here.
“The longer you stay, the more you enjoy it,” Shukla said, adding on a lighter note that he “actually kind of did not want to come back”.
Shukla said the hands-on experience in space was very different from what he had learnt during training.
He said the future of India’s space science was “very bright”, with the country harbouring “very big and bold dreams”.
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Shukla described his ISS flight, undertaken with support from the US, as a crucial “stepping stone” towards realising India’s ‘Vision Gaganyaan’.
“The experience gained is a national asset. It is already being used by internal committees and design teams to ensure ongoing missions are on the right track,” he said.
Shukla said the country’s space ambitions include the Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme, the Bharatiya Station (India’s own space station), and eventually a human landing on the Moon.
While the Moon mission is targeted for 2040, he said these projects are already in the pipeline, and the field will evolve at a “very rapid pace” over the next 10-20 years.
He told the students that though these targets are challenging, they are “achievable by people like you”, urging them to take ownership of India’s aspirations.
The sector will generate “a lot of employment opportunities” as India expands its human spaceflight capabilities, he noted.
Echoing the iconic words of India’s first astronaut Rakesh Sharma, Shukla said that from orbit, “India is still the best in the world”.
Shukla also asserted that the achievement was not his alone, but that of the entire country.
“The youth of India are extremely talented. They must stay focused, remain curious and work hard. It is their responsibility to help build a developed India by 2047,” he said.
Highlighting a shift from Sharma’s era, Shukla said India is now developing a full-fledged astronaut ecosystem.
With Gaganyaan and future missions, children in India will be able to not only dream of becoming astronauts, but also achieving it within the country, he said.
“Space missions help a village kid believe he can go to space someday. When you send one person to space, you lift million hopes. That is why such programmes must continue... The sky is not the limit,” Shukla said.
“Scientists must prepare for systems that will last 20-30 years, while ensuring they can integrate technologies that will emerge a decade from now,” he said.
Shukla added that he looked forward to more space missions, and was keen to undertake a space walk, which will require him to "train for another two years".
