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India to ferry heaviest foreign satellites

New Delhi: After the successful test launch of Agni-V, India is set to ferry two foreign satellites - French and Japanese - on board its Polar...

Risat-1: 10 must know facts

New Delhi: India on Thursday successfully launched its own spy satellite Risat-1, which is said to be the heaviest microwave satellite built by the...

Chandrayaan-2 to miss 2014 take off date

New Delhi: The country's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2, slated for 2014, will have to wait...

India flight-tests second airborne radar aircraft

New Delhi: India's second indigenous airborne warning radar built on board a Brazilian Embraer...

 

India successfully test fires BrahMos supersonic missile

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Army, on Wednesday test-fired the 290-km BrahMos supersonic cruise...

India's nuclear power generation reaches 32,000 million units

Chennai: India on Tuesday achieved a milestone in nuclear power generation, touching 32,000...

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• India to launch home-built satellite...
  Wednesday, March 14, 2012 02:47 PM [IST]

   

  Bangalore: India is expected to launch next month an indigenously designed and developed satellite that has the unique capability of imaging during day and night and in all weather conditions."The Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-1) is likely to be launched in the second half of April from...
• Chidambaram's 'Air Wing' set to take off
  Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:09 AM [IST]

   

  New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry is on course to give wings to its 'own little air force'. In a step forward to have its dedicated full-fledged 'Air Wing', MHA's plan, floated last year, is now before Finance Ministry for approval even as the cash hunt for the wing has begun, reports...
• Mission Green: 5 % increase in...
  Thursday, February 2, 2012 04:11 PM [IST]

   

  New Delhi: In what could bring cheers to environmentalists, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the country's forest cover has increased by nearly five per cent between 1997 and 2007."I am happy to state that India's forest cover had increased by nearly 5 per cent between 1997 and 2007...
• IIT-Delhi graduate is Cornell's new...
  Wednesday, January 11, 2012 01:34 AM [IST]

   

  New York: IIT-Delhi alumnus Soumitra Dutta has been named the new Dean of the Ivy league Cornell University's business school, joining a growing list of noted Indian-origin academicians assuming leaderships roles at prestigious global universities.Dutta, 48, is the first Indian-origin dean at the...