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It was launched on 19 April 1975 from a Soviet launch site, was named after the astronomer of the fifth century and carried experiments in astronomy and solar physics.

ISRO was formed on 15 August 1969, taking over the work of the committee that had been running the programme.

He chaired the Indian National Committee for Space Research set up in 1962, chose Thumba for the first sounding rocket launches and argued that a poor country needed space technology for communication, education and weather rather than for prestige.

The Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 touched down on 23 August 2023, making India the fourth country to soft-land on the Moon and the first to land in the region of the south pole, and the Government named the date National Space Day.

The Union was founded on 17 May 1865, when the first International Telegraph Convention was signed at Paris, and it is today the United Nations agency for information and communication technologies with its headquarters at Geneva.

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was born on 15 September 1861, built the Krishna Raja Sagara dam across the Kaveri, designed the automatic flood gates used at Khadakwasla, served as Diwan of Mysore and received the Bharat Ratna in 1955.

UNESCO proclaimed the day in 1966 and it has been observed since 1967 to remind governments that literacy is the base of every other right, with a theme announced each year and the UNESCO literacy prizes awarded.

Azad was born on 11 November 1888 and became independent India's first Minister of Education; the first Indian Institutes of Technology, the University Grants Commission and the All India Council for Technical Education belong to his term, and the Ministry declared his birthday National Education Day in 2008.

Radhakrishnan, a philosopher and teacher who became the first Vice-President and the second President of India, was born on 5 September 1888; when his students wished to celebrate his birthday he asked that the day be kept for teachers instead.

Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 at Erode in the Madras Presidency, worked on number theory, infinite series and continued fractions, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at a very young age.

On 11 May 1998 India tested nuclear devices at Pokhran in Rajasthan under Operation Shakti; the same day the indigenous Hansa-3 trainer aircraft made its first test flight and the Trishul missile was successfully test-fired, and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee named the date National Technology Day.

C. V. Raman made the announcement on 28 February 1928 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1930, the first Nobel in the sciences for an Indian.

On this day in 1928 C. V. Raman announced the discovery of the Raman Effect, the scattering of light with a changed wavelength when it passes through a transparent medium, and the discovery brought him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.

A FASTag is a sticker on the windscreen that a reader at the toll plaza identifies by radio, so the toll is deducted from a linked account and the vehicle need not stop; the system is called National Electronic Toll Collection and is run by the National Payments Corporation of…

The system, run by the National Payments Corporation of India, lets a customer withdraw cash, deposit money or check a balance at a banking correspondent's micro ATM by giving the Aadhaar number, the name of the bank and a biometric authentication, without a card or a cheque.

Real Time Gross Settlement is meant for large value payments, which are settled one transaction at a time as they are received rather than in batches, and the system sets a floor of two lakh rupees with no upper limit.

The amount of a debit card payment leaves the account at once, which is the essential difference from a credit card, where the bank pays first from a limit it has granted and bills the holder later with an interest free period.

Such an operator is authorised under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act of 2007, the machine carries the operator's own brand instead of a bank's, cards of every bank work on it, and the cash is supplied through a sponsor bank.

The machine does the work of a teller at the counter, giving cash, accepting deposits, printing statements and taking requests, and it works at any hour without a member of the staff.

RuPay was launched as an Indian card network so that domestic card payments would be settled within the country instead of through foreign networks, and its cards are issued by banks for savings accounts and under government schemes.