Archive For February, 2014
Amidst all the fiscal chaos that the UPA government has left the country grappling with, there’s a singular reason for celebration: Airports. In its 2013 ranking of the world’s best airports, Airports Council International (ACI) the only global trade representative of the world’s airports, declared Delhi’s IGI airport as the second best airport of the […]
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh inaugurated the state‐of‐the‐art Terminal 2, or T2, at the reconstructed Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport here, saying: “This terminal is expected to establish new global benchmarks of functional efficiency and operational safety. This terminal will fulfil the expectations we have from it and make us feel proud. He added, we are […]
BANGALORE: Four of the six Padma awards for Karnataka have gone to the field of science and technology, while one has gone to medicine and another to sports. Padma Bhushan Prof Padmanabhan Balaram (Science and Engineering) Director of IISc Bangalore He’s a well-known biochemist who received his Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, […]
The first SASTRA‐CNR Rao Award for Excellence in Chemistry and Materials Science will be awarded jointly to Mr Suresh Das, Director of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) National Institute for Inter‐Disciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram and Mr Sourav Pal, Director, CSIR‐National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. The award instituted by the SASTRA University here […]
A model of low-cost airlines and no-frills airports will drive down costs, lift volumes and improve connectivity. The advent of low-cost carriers (LCCs) has led to a rapid growth in the aviation market in India. Today, LCCs have captured a majority share of the market. Globally, LCC growth is often associated with a boom in […]
The Civil Aviation Ministry gave the go ahead for the world’s largest passenger airline Airbus A-380s to fly into India. The state-of-the-art A-380s will be allowed to land at four airports — Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore — which are equipped to operate the planes. The decision to lift the ban on the double-deck planes […]
Karnataka, the nation’s aviation hub, can pioneer the use of helicopters in law enforcement, according to Dr R.K. Tyagi, chairperson of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL). The Bangalore police should make a beginning and be the first in the country to experiment with helicopters for surveillance, evacuation, emergency and other law and order requirements, he suggested […]
The long‐awaited Indian manned space fight will face its first challenge in April when a more powerful version of the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) will carry a human crew module into space to check if the module is capable of re‐entering the Earth’s atmosphere safely. The Indian Space Research Organisation had developed specialised space […]
The successful launch of a two‐tonne advanced communication satellite (GSAT‐14) off the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV‐D5) from Sriharikota marks a feather in the cap of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO. It was a textbook launch in the sense that it conformed to all the set parameters. The payload was placed in the intended […]
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) supplied the cryogenic fuel tanks and the cryo stage structures that formed part of the GSLV‐D5, which was successfully launched on Sunday, the public enterprise has said. HAL integrated and provided the four small ‘L40’ booster rockets strapped on to the first stage. L40 denotes the 40 tonnes of liquid fuel […]