Wednesday, March 17, 2010
First Pravasi Film Festival Awards
Sharmila Tagore-Soha Ali Khan starrer 'Life Goes On' has bagged the Best Feature Film Award at the first Pravasi Film Festival in New Delhi.
D K Krishna and Raj Nidimoru's 'Shor', a short fiction film, received the Best Short Fiction award.
Navdeep Kandola's 'Flying Sikh', a history of Sikh fighter pilots in the first and the second World Wars, won the Best Short Non-Fiction Award. The festival also honoured veteran actor Saeed Jaffry with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Vyomnauts and ISRO
India's First space mission is scheduled for 2015. In this mission three-person vehicle will initially carry two astronauts into 275-kilometre low-Earth orbit.
The ISRO is in process of choosing four astronauts from a pool of 200 fighter pilots. the media has coined a new term for Indian astronauts – Vyomnauts.
Vyoma is space. The correct sanskrit term is Vyomagami yet
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