Archive For September, 2013
US space agency NASA and India’s premier space agency ISRO are in talks for jointly building a satellite for the first time. “Now, there is a feasibility study going on whether we can jointly make a satellite, with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) payloads working on two frequency bands ‐ L‐band and S‐band”, chairman, Indian Space […]
India, seeking to build its first regional aircraft, is considering roping in local and foreign partners for the project, after spending more than two decades to build a smaller plane. “A study under review by a government panel favours tie-ups with equipment makers rather than purchasing engines and parts from them,” Dr Satish Chandra, head of […]
Former president Dr A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday said the computer revolution, which had created large volumes of data, was now driving new ideas and changes in computing. “Social networks such as Twitter and Facebook are causing the biggest explosion of data today,” he said, speaking at the silver jubilee international conference on ‘Computational and Data […]
The new DRDO chief is optimistic on the progress of the LCA and missile programmes and keen on securing technology transfer and access to raw materials Avinash Chander, chief architect of India’s Agni series of missiles, took over as Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and Director-General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) […]
Months after a border stand-off in the region with China raised tensions, India landed a special operations military aircraft at the highest airstrip in the world in Aksai Chin, with the defence ministry stating that it has demonstrated an “increased capability to induct troops” in the area. Terming the landing of a C 130J ‘Super […]
New Delhi: Months after stand-off with PLA troops in Daulat Beg Oldie, India sent out a message to China as it started operating medium-lift C-130J transport plane there, marking an increase in capacity to ferry troops and supplies in larger quantities to Line of Actual Control. The Super Hercules transport plane landed at the world’s […]
CHENNAI: India’s wait for a successful flight of a GSLV rocket fitted with an indigenous cryogenic engine will prolong till mid December. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan told TOI that GSLV-D5, whose launch on August 19 as aborted because of a leak in the liquid fuel tank, had to be disassembled and studied […]
BANGALORE: Bangalore-headquartered Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has once again made the country proud. It is the only Indian institute that has made it to the top 500 in the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) which was released by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The 104-year-old entity is […]
NEW DELHI: Is India’s aging fleet of conventional submarines threatening to go the MiG-21 way? The Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA), already 30 years in the making, was slated to replace the obsolete MiG-21 in the 1990s but is still at least two years away from becoming fully-operational. Similarly, the Navy too was to induct […]
The Ministry of Human Resources Development has launched a free online library for school going students on Tuesday here, throwing open educational resources that would help several thousands of school goers in the country. The National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) developed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), currently offers […]