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Isro is on an interstellar overdrive, working on a bunch of future technologies that could be the stuff of Hollywood sci-fi. Think self-eating rockets and self-vanishing satellites, to name just a few among the 46 slices of mind-bending tech taking shape at its innovation hub.

"All our rockets have metal casings that are dropped into the sea after launch or become (final-stage) space debris. We are working on a technology through which rockets will effectively eat themselves, eliminating waste-dropping into seas and space debris. We are looking at special materials for casings that can burn up along with motors," Isro chairman K Sivan told TOI on Tuesday.

In the same vein, self-vanishing satellite technology would enable spacecraft destruction, once its lifetime is over, through a "kill button" to kickstart a process that will burn it up in-orbit.

The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly adopted a resolution on Tuesday withdrawing the earlier resolution seeking the abolishing of Legislative Council.

Moving the resolution, minister for Legislative Affairs, Buggana Rajendranath said the resolution was adopted by the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on January 27, 2020 seeking that the Legislative Council of the state be abolished.

It was sent to Union Home Ministry for consideration and with no response and ambiguity and dilemma about the functioning of the prevailing House, the government decided to withdraw the earlier resolution.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday during which issues pertaining to the Border Security Force (BSF), the development of the state and the "atrocities" in Tripura will be discussed.

Briefing the media in Kolkata on Monday, Banerjee had said, "I am going to Delhi today as I have an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the day after tomorrow, regarding the BSF issue and other development issues of Bengal."

Mamata Banerjee will stay in the national capital till November 25. Banerjee`s visit to the capital is taking place days ahead of the winter session of Parliament which is scheduled to begin on November 29.

Delhi's Deputy CM Manish Sisodia flays Akali Dal, Congress for lacking political will to address Punjab's problems.

"The success behind Kejriwal`s government is the political will. It has achieved impossible tasks with its willpower. BJP, Akali Dal, Congress did not have the political will to tackle the problems of the state," said Sisodia addressing a meeting of traders and industrialists in Hoshiarpur. 

Urging the people to vote for AAP, he said, "Choose AAP once the way Delhi did, You will forget Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). We weren`t elected to power just like that", adding "Punjab needs a visionary government, a thinking chief minister, a thinking leadership."