Current Affairs 20th March 2025
Current affairs 20st March 2025 by Saurabh Pandey Sir
Bagad Rath Yatra festival is celebrated in MAHARASHTRA .
● During the festival the sacred Bagad or chariot of God with stone wheels is pulled by eight bullocks out of hundreds brought from various parts of Maharashtra FACT (SUNITA WILLIAMS RETURN)
● Mr. Wilmore and Ms. Williams, veterans of two prior space missions, flew to the orbital lab in June last year, on what was supposed to be a dayslong roundtrip to test out Boeing’s Starliner on its first crewed flight.
● But the spaceship developed problems and was deemed unfit to fly them back, instead returning empty.
● Their 286-day stay exceeds the usual six-month ISS rotation but ranks only sixth among U.S. records for single-mission duration.
● Frank Rubio holds the top spot at 371 days in 2023, while the world record remains with Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent 437 consecutive days aboard the Mir station The Raisina Dialogue
● The Raisina Dialogue is India’s premier conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the global community.
● Every year, leaders in politics, business, media, and civil society converge in New Delhi to discuss the state of the world and explore opportunities
