‘Hand over ‘Muda scam’ to CBI’, demands Chalavadi Narayanaswamy
Bengaluru: Legislative Council Opposition leader Chalavadi Narayanaswamy stated that the MUDA site allotment scam must be given over to a CBI investigation. Only this could bring out the real facts, he said. He was speaking to the press people at Jagannatha Bhavana, BJP state office, in Bengaluru on Friday.
Alleging that attempts were afoot to bury the MUDA case without allowing a CBI investigation, Chalavadi Narayanaswamy said that the Congress should have celebrated the Valmiki Jayanti as a day of repentance, if it had any humanity. "The CM must immediately resign and all those who loaded the all the MUDA files onto a helicopter must also be investigated", he added.
The BJP leader alleged that corruption had stopped being an offence to the CM and Congress party. "The Congress government has appointed a wolf to guard the sheep. Despite heavy corruption taking place, those who come out of jail are in a jubilant mood. Valmiki Jayanti only happened yesterday. I felt ashamed when Siddaramaiah was celebrating it. How right is it for the people who gulped down the Valmiki Corporation to celebrate Valmiki Jayanti?" he questioned.
Referring to ED raid on MUDA office, taluk office and the house of the land owner Devaraju, Narayanaswamy said that this happened because the investigative agency's repeated request for MUDA files had been rejected. He alleged that the government wanted to bury the facts of the case and the MUDA sites were 'unnecessarily' returned. "President Marigowda has been removed. Officers there have been shifted to different departments. All this points at the fact that a huge corruption had happened there", he said.
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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."
