Amanjot Singh and Sahil Wadhwa, both students of Ryan International in Rohini(Delhi) discovered the main belt asteroid named 2010 PO24. This is the first time an asteroid has been spotted by any school in the country.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is building a new test range in Chitradurga district in Karnataka for its aeronautics missions for flight-testing sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), air-to-ground weapons, huge parachutes, Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, aerostats and also for testing electronic warfare systems. The DRDO already has an Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea, near Balasore, Orissa, from where different missiles are flight-tested.