In a first for the Indian Air Force,the “OTTERS” squadron of Western Air Command has undertaken Parallel Taxi Track (PTT) Operations with a full women crew in the Dornier 228 aircraft. The pilots, Sqn Ldr Kamaljeet Kaur and her co-pilot Sqn Ldr Rakhi Bhandari carried out successful parallel taxi track landing and take-off operations at […]
India’s latest communication satellite, GSAT-31 was successfully launched from the Spaceport in French Guiana during the early hours today. The launch vehicle Ariane 5 VA-247 lifted off from Kourou Launch Base, French Guiana at 2:31 am (IST) carrying India’s GSAT-31 and Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 satellites, as scheduled. After a 42-min flight, GSAT-31 […]
Prince Albert II of Monaco called on the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, at Rashtrapati Bhavan today (February 5, 2019). It was a courtesy call, but the issues discussed ranged from trade to cooperation in technology. Welcoming Prince Albert to India, the President said that India and Monaco have always enjoyed a relationship of […]
Proton Therapy could be used for cancer treatment. The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu said this when he was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the Apollo’s State-of-the-art Proton Cancer Centre, which is the first such centre in Southeast Asia, in Chennai yesterday. Naidu appreciated the Apollo Hospitals for starting Proton Therapy centre which uses […]
ISRO has announced the Young Scientists Programme to encourage the scientific talent and increase scientific pool in the country. He made the announcement on January 18th, 2019. Under Young Scientists Programme, Chairman Dr K. Sivan said, 3 students from each state and UT will be selected for ISRO programme for one month during which they […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and Libcoin are in dialogue to form a world class consortium to initially build 1GWh lithium ion battery plant in India, said a central government note. The capacity of the lithium ion battery plant will be scaled up to 30GWh in due course. With this, India, the note says, has […]
The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has approved report of Task Force created by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to identify areas for use of Space Technology in improving Border Management. The Task Force on Space Technology in improving Border Management has been headed by Joint Secretary (Border Management) and having members from BSF, […]
The government yesterday launched special weather services for the benefit of people visiting Prayagraj during Kumbh Mela. The Kumbh Mela 2019 is going to be held at Prayagraj during January-March 2019. Union Minister of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences and Environment and Forests and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan today in New Delhi launched special […]
The Chairman, ISRO K. Sivan addressed and interacted with over hundred media persons from Bengaluru and other parts of India in a Press Meet organized today at ISRO Headquarters, Bengaluru. Here he highlighted ISRO’s achievements in 2018 related to launch vehicles, satellites and their applications towards nation building. Dr Sivan also briefed about the challenging […]
ISRO plans to set up Space Galleries in various locations in the country. The Space Galleries are expected to disseminate the knowledge about space science and technology amongst the citizens of our country. The Gallery will consist of interactive methods/ models describing the principles of Space science and technology. Initially, Space Galleries are planned to […]
