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Washington: NASA has awarded three teams from India as part of the US space agency’s annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge which invites high school and college students to build and test roving vehicles for future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

The team from KIET Group of Institutions in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, won the “AIAA Neil Armstrong Best Design Award”, which recognises systems best designed to meet the Rover Challenge performance requirements, NASA said in a statement.

The Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering from Mumbai, Maharashtra, won the “Frank Joe Sexton Memorial Pit Crew Award” — for ingenuity and persistence in overcoming problems during the race —  as well as the “System Safety Challenge Award”.

A team from Lovely Professional University in Phagwara, Punjab, won the “STEM Engagement Award”, presented to the team that best informed others about rocketry and other space-related topics.

Nearly 100 teams took part in the competition, hailing from a record number of countries, including the US, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Mexico, Morocco and Peru.

Indian-American NASA astronaut and two-time spaceflight veteran Sunita Williams attended the second day of the event, interacting with teams and participating in the day’s activities.

The International Space Education Institute of Leipzig, Germany, won first place in the high school division with 91 points; and a team from University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez won the college/university division with 101 points.

Teams were awarded points based on the successful navigation of obstacles and completion of tasks.

The competition, hosted by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and held at the US Space & Rocket Center, this year marked 25 years since the inaugural event, the statement said.

“We are so proud to congratulate this year’s winners, and every team that competed,” said Bob Musgrove, Acting Manager of the Office of STEM Engagement at Marshall.

“The creativity, skill and resourcefulness demonstrated each year on the rover course are the very traits that paved our path to the Moon in 1969, and the ones that will continue to carry NASA forward to the Moon again in 2024,” said Musgrove.

Rover Challenge provides learning opportunities to students who, someday, may be responsible for planning future space missions, including crewed missions to other worlds.

After constructing their own rovers, teams attempt to traverse a nearly three-quarter-mile course with gruelling obstacles that simulate terrain found on Mars, as well as other planets, moons and asteroids throughout the solar system. In addition, they have to complete tasks, such as sample collection and instrument deployment.

Teams had a six-minute window to navigate the course, gathering points and trying to complete 14 obstacles.

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Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s motorcade came under stone-pelting in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday while she was returning from a shrine there, officials said.

Mehbooba had gone to a shrine at Khirram in Anantnag district to pay her obeisance and was returning to Bijbehara when the incident took place, they added.

One of the spare vehicles in the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister’s motorcade was damaged in the stone-pelting and the driver was hurt, the officials said.

Others in the entourage, including the PDP president, escaped unhurt.

Mehbooba is contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha election from the Anantnag seat, which she had won in 2014. The south Kashmir constituency, spread over the four districts of Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian, is going to the polls in three phases from April 29 to May 6.

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Hyderabad: N.Lakshmi Parvathi, wife of former Chief Minister late N. T Rama Rao, met the Director General of Police, M. Mahendar Reddy at his office here on Monday and requested action against those spreading false information against her on social media.

In a memorandum submitted to the DDP, she said that a person named Koti posted false information against her on social media on April 4 and attempted to tarnish her image.

She urged action against Koti along with the channel that telecast the information and social media sites in this regard.

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Singer-songwriter Justin Bieber, who pulled a prank on his fans on April Fools’ Day, has taken his couple nickname with his wife Hailey Baldwin to another level.

The couple, who is affectionately called ‘Jailey’, tied the knot late last year. The usually romantic Justin took ‘Jailey’ to an all new level with an Instagram post. On Friday, Hailey posted a series of pictures on the photo-sharing application from her new campaign that she shot with Adidas.  In the pictures, she is wearing blue track pants and a blue Adidas jacket with red sleeves and white stripes. She has a straight face in the first photo and a goofy one in another.

Seems like some big ‘Jailey’ fan brought together the best of both worlds and photoshopped Justin’s head onto his wife’s body where she’s wearing the Adidas outfit,

“The internet gotta chill jailey for real,” Justin captioned the post alongside a slew of laughing emojis.

While the 25-year-old singer may have found it amusing, Hailey didn’t seem to reciprocate the feelings.”Lolol I hate this,” Hailey wrote in the comments section.

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