New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will turn 70 on September 17, 2020. His party, the ruling BJP has added that it will celebrate the PM’s birthday in a week-long ‘Seva Saptah’ from September 14-20.

On the other hand on Twitter, the netizens have decided to mark the day as “National Unemployment Day” to highlight the Prime Minister’s failure to create jobs and provide employment for the people of the country. An agenda, riding on which Modi had contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.

Twitter users, on Friday afternoon, tweeted thousands of posts with hashtag #17Sept17Hrs17Minutes and called on people to take part in the Twitter campaign on September 17.

Several users asserted that the youths of the country were frustrated over the unemployment and lack of opportunities in the market.

Along with #17Sept17Hrs17Minutes another hashtag in Hindi was trending on Friday #राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस.

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Bengaluru (PTI): ISRO has successfully conducted two hot tests of the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS) at the space agency's Propulsion Complex in Mahendragiri on July 3.

The short-duration tests, lasting 30 seconds and 100 seconds respectively, were aimed at validating the test article configuration, ISRO said in a statement on Wednesday.

"The overall performance of the propulsion system during these hot tests was normal as per pre-test predictions. During the 100s test, simultaneous operation of all Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters in different modes (steady state; pulsed) along with all Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) engines was also successfully demonstrated.

"ISRO's Liquid Propulsion System Centre (LPSC) is leading the technology development activities for the Gaganyaan SMPS. SMPS is a critical system of Gaganyaan Orbital Module and is required during orbital manoeuvring as well as specific abort scenarios," the space agency said.

It comprises five Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) engines (each 440N thrust) and 16 Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters (each 100N thrust). In order to simulate the propulsion system conditions closer to flight, the SMPS test article for these hot tests incorporated improvements based on experience gained from earlier hot tests.

"With the confidence gained through these hot tests, ISRO will conduct a full duration hot test shortly," the statement said.

According to ISRO, the Gaganyaan programme aims to demonstrate India’s capability to launch a crewed spacecraft into low Earth orbit, and the experience and knowledge gained from this mission will be crucial for its success.