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Tesla owner Elon Musk shares his viewpoint about employees doing work from home. On October 19, Musk addressed an interview and said, "those who work from home are detached from reality." This is not the first time that Musk has called out on those doing remote work. Earlier, the X (Twitter) owner called remote work, "morally wrong." He further compared delivery boys, and others saying, they don't work from home.

PM Narendra Modi asked scientists to aim to send the first Indian to the Moon by 2040 and set up an Indian space station by 2035, said an official statement. He gave these directions during a meeting to review the preparedness of the Gaganyaan mission and the first demonstration flight of the crew for October 21. "The meeting evaluated the mission’s readiness, affirming its launch in 2025," the statement said.

Byju Raveendran, the founder of edtech startup Byju's, has been left off the latest Hurun India rich list, amid valuation markdowns faced by the company. Notably,  Reliance Industries' Mukesh Ambani has reclaimed the title of the richest Indian, surpassing Gautam Adani, confirmed Hurun's list. The list, with exit of Byju's, came days after it was reported that online higher education platform Great Learning is looking to to buy Byju's.

In this event 'Over the Moon with Team Chandrayaan 3'  held in campus on Sunday, top scientists and engineers from ISRO interacted with students from IIT Madras and various government schools and city college students. During the occasion many scientists including Dr. S.Unnikrishnan Nair who completed PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is the Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre(VSSC), ISRO.

SpaceX engineer Ashley Foltz has sued the Elon Musk-run aerospace company, alleging pay discrimination where women and minority employees are being paid less than male and white workers. Foltz said in her proposed class-action lawsuit that she was hired on a $92,000 salary as a base-level engineer, even though men with similar or less experience were offered as much as $115,000, said report. Notably, Ashley was hired in September 2022.