Archive For October, 2013

Indian Scientist Wins Top UN Award

An Indian‐origin scientist, who proved how cutting emissions of ‘black carbon’ or soot can significantly lessen the impact of climate change, has been selected for the UN’s top environmental award. Mr Veerabhadran Ramanathan of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California is to receive the ‘Champions of the Earth Award’. Source: Indian Express

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ICCES Lifetime Achievement Medal

Prof B. Dattaguru, Professor (Retd) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore has been chosen to receive the ICCES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL  for seminal contributions to damage tolerance methodologies, and education of generations of students in India. This Medal will be presented at the Award Banquet as well as at the Opening Ceremony of ICCES14, to be […]

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Defence purchase exempted from Centre’s budget cuts

India’s defence purchase worth Rs 86,741 crore budgeted for 2013 ‐14 fiscal will remain unaffected by the central government’s austerity measures and the 10 per cent budget cuts in non‐Plan expenses announced for all departments and ministries. A day after the Finance Ministry issued an office memorandum on the budget cuts, under which air travel […]

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US set to bag $5bn defence deals

  Having already bagged Indian defence contracts worth over $8 billion in recent years after muscling out Russia, Israel and France, the US is now headed towards clinching another four major deals worth almost $5 billion. Defence ministry sources said the deals for six more C‐130J “Super Hercules” aircraft ($1.2 billion), 22 Apache attack helicopters […]

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Saab will increase sourcing from India

Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab said it would grow its sourcing business in India, and it had become necessary to do so. Mr Kjell Johnson, head of Saab Aero structures, said India was an emerging market for Airbus and Boeing and companies like Saab, which are tier‐1 suppliers to these aircraft majors, had to […]

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Private Company To Support MiG-29s in India

Russian Aircraft MiG and Indian private company Basant Aerospace have signed two maintenance deals worth $55 million to support MiG‐29s in India. This is the first time that a Russian defense company has selected a non‐government‐owned partner to support high‐tech military hardware such as radar abroad. The first deal is worth $43 million and creates […]

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Rupee fall helps NAL secure orders for autoclaves

The depreciation of the rupee against major currencies like the dollar may be giving sleepless nights to various importers and policy makers. But, it is having a very positive impact on the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a wing of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). With composites coming into greater use in the […]

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Scientists on ships to track launch of Mars Orbiter Mission

Sometime in late October or mid November when India sends its spacecraft off to Mars, its scientists will log the farewell event from the decks of two ships that will be positioned a hemisphere away in the South Pacific. The ships are slated to leave for their mission from Visakhapatnam on September 15. The Indian […]

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ISRO to make new stage for GSLV

The high‐level task team constituted to probe the August 19 failure of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle‐D5 (GSLV‐D5) is yet to submit the final report on the reasons for the glitch, but the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided to assemble a new second stage for the rocket. A senior ISRO official, while stating […]

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National Aerospace Week Celebrated By NASA

Every time you step aboard an airplane there’s an excellent chance that a piece of innovative NASA technology will be flying with you, helping to ensure you have a safe and efficient flight. It might befound in the upturned winglets you see at the tip of the wing, or within the composite material used to […]

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