{"id":129893,"date":"2022-01-18T07:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T07:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=129893"},"modified":"2022-01-18T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T07:27:08","slug":"s-somanath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/s-somanath\/","title":{"rendered":"S Somanath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Who has recently(January 2022) been appointed as the new chairman for India&#8217;s space agency ?<\/strong><br>a. S Somanath<br>b. Mali Arun<br>c. C Carlos<br>d. Raman Dhami<br><strong>Ans. a.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>S Somanath has recently(January 2022) been appointed as the new chairman for India&#8217;s space agency.<\/li><li>Somanath, a rocket scientist will replace K Sivan, who led the push to get private firms into India&#8217;s space sector during his four-year term.<\/li><li>He is currently director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), India&#8217;s rocket development lab in Trivandrum.<\/li><li>He led the development of country&#8217;s most powerful rocket GSLV Mk-3, which will be used for the country&#8217;s human space mission. He also worked on the workhorse PSLV rocket.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Pankaj Pandey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/science\/senior-rocket-scientist-s-somanath-appointed-as-chief-of-isro\/articleshow\/88858617.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/science\/senior-rocket-scientist-s-somanath-appointed-as-chief-of-isro\/articleshow\/88858617.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Who has recently(January 2022) been appointed as the new chairman for India&#8217;s space agency ?a. S Somanathb. Mali Arunc. C Carlosd. Raman DhamiAns. a. S Somanath has recently(January 2022) been appointed as the new chairman for India&#8217;s space agency. Somanath, a rocket scientist will replace K Sivan, who led the push to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":129894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-129893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129895,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129893\/revisions\/129895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}