Archive For April, 2013

First remote sensing satellite programme team felicitated

It was on March 17, 1988, India sent the IRS1A to space, the first remote sensing satellite (IRS) of the country. To remember that momentous day, the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) organised a commemoration ceremony at IISc and felicitated the members of the first IRS programme that made the IRS1A possible.Former heads of […]

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Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad airports among top 5 in the world

Airports of Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad are among the top five airports in the world providing international standard services.  Airports Council International (ACI), a global body of airports, has adjudged Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport as second best after Seoul’s Incheon airport in the category of airports handling 25-40 million passengers per annum (MPPA) […]

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DRDO appoints Chief Controllers

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has elevated two of its tops scientists as Chief Controllers (Research and Development) in Aero and Life Sciences stream. According to a press release issued here, Dr K Tamilmani, scientist, and chief executive, Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC), one of the establishments of Defence Research and […]

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AirAsia entry could intensify price war in domestic skies

The likely entry of AirAsia into the domestic market has got its main competitors – Indigo, SpiceJet, Air India and Jet Airways – bracing for a severe price war. While airline officials refused to talk on the record, off the record they said that every airline would have to take steps to protect market share. […]

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Upgrade of Mirage to cost Rs195 cr

New Delhi: More than two years after he cleared a Rs 11,000 crore upgrade package for the Indian Air Force’s Mirage-2000 fleet, Defence Minister Mr A K Antony informed  Parliament that cost of the upgraded fighters would be close to its shelf price if India wished to buy these aircraft now. India purchased 51 Mirage-2000 […]

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Space plan gets 2,000cr leg-up

Close on the heels of the success of the PSLV/Saral mission, the budgetary allocation for  India’s space programme has rocketed by nearly Rs 2,000 crore—one  of the highest in  recent times, according to ISRO officials.  While the allocation in 2012-13 was Rs 4,880 crore, it has been raised to Rs 6,792 crore now. The amount […]

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ISRO begins integrating payloads for ‘Project Mars’

With the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) integrating payloads for the “Mars Orbiter Mission”, India’s plan to send a spacecraft to the red planet is inching towards reality. After leaving the earth’s orbit in November, the spacecraft will cruise in deep-space for about 10 months and will reach Mars around September 2014.  Sources within the […]

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Don’t extend Tejas deadline, Antony tells DRDO

    Defence Minister Mr A K Antony asked the DRDO not to extend the date of final operational clearance of indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft beyond 2014 and said there was no substitute for self-reliance. Inaugurating the 37th Directors’ Conference of DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) here, Antony said it will have to take […]

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India tests BrahMos missile from underwater

NEW DELHI: The utter lack of long-term strategic planning in the Indian defence establishment was once again evident on Wednesday when the country for the first time tested the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from underwater. The submarine-launched version of the missile was “successfully” tested from an underwater pontoon off Visakhapatnam around 2.10pm. BrahMos […]

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ISRO may launch spacecraft to Mars on Nov 27

India’s efforts to send a spacecraft to Mars will take a huge leap by the end of March, when the payloads are expected to be finalised and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is looking at November, 2013 for the launch of the satellite. Addressing media persons, ISRO Chairperson Dr K Radhakrishnan said: “The Mars mission is […]

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