Archive For September, 2017
Even as scientists across the country participated in a ‘March for Science’ to demand greater budgets for research and curbs on “pseudo science,” researchers from a prominent CSIR lab here were explicitly warned by its director from participating in it. Multiple scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), a prominent CSIR lab […]
TAILWINDS GATHER BIAL nod for Hosur airport rekindles optimism that HAL airport too could blip on the regional connectivity radar The Civil Aviation Ministry’s aggressive promotion of the regional connectivity scheme (UDAN) is providing some hope for Defence airports in Bengaluru and Bidar to resume operations for small passenger aircraft. The recent “no-objection“ from the […]
As India plans to be a global aviation hub and one of the top three aviation markets worldwide by 2020, experts give us an overview of the this industry According to the French National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), by the year 2050, India may be the most populous nation with a population of 1.6 […]
The move became imperative after all three rubidium atomic clocks on IRNSS-1A failed in mid-2016.Indian Space Research Organisation will soon launch a replacement navigation satellite fitted with corrected atomic clocks to make up for the crippled satellite, IRNSS-1A.The upcoming IRNSS-1H will be sent up towards the end of August and a date is yet to […]
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its navigation satellite IRNSS-1H by the end of this month to augment the existing seven satellites of NavIC constellation, a senior official said. To be launched on board PSLV-C39, IRNSS-1H will be a “back up” navigation satellite for IRNSS-1A, one among the seven satellites in the constellation, as its three rubidium atomic clocks […]