Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a newly designed web page here yesterday for Drone Olympics (https://aeroindia.gov.in/Drone), scheduled to be held at Aero India – 2019 at Air Force Station, Yelahanka, Bengaluru. The web page is open for registration of UAV players interested in taking part in the maiden event of the Aero India. It is […]
Mishra Dhatu Nigam (MIDHANI) is having production capacity to manufacture high nitrogen steel (HNS) for armour applications. This steel is planned to be produced in commercial scale as part of transfer of technology from Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL). Atal Bhashantar Yojana to provide employment for Interpreters They have claimed that HNS is having better […]
Bogibeel Bridge is evoking a lot of curiosity. But did you know who supplied the major portion of the steel used in the Bogibeel Bridge? Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) supplied around 35400 metric tonnes of steel for the construction of Bogibeel Road-cum-Rail Bridge on the river Brahmaputra. This quantity is little more than […]
Today, on 17 December 2018, Experimental Test Pilots and Test Engineer from IAF’s premier testing establishment ASTE, flew India’s first military flight using blended bio-jet fuel on the An-32 transport aircraft. The project is a combined effort of IAF, DRDO, Directorate General Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA) and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum. On 27 July 2018, […]
Agni V, a long-range surface-to-surface Nuclear Capable Ballistic missile, was successfully launched from a canister on a road mobile launcher at the Dr Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha, today. The launch operations of Agni V were carried out and monitored by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) in presence of Scientists from Defence […]
NITI Aayog is now partnering with Perlin – a Singapore-based Artificial Intelligence start up – to launch the ‘AI 4 All Global Hackathon’, and is inviting developers, students, start-ups and companies to develop Artificial Intelligence applications to make significant positive social and economic impact for India. Artificial Intelligence to monitor the food production in base kitchens […]
Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) heaviest and most-advanced high throughput communication satellite GSAT-11 was successfully launched from the Spaceport in French Guiana during the early hours of December 5th 2018. The launch vehicle Ariane 5 VA-246 lifted off from Kourou Launch Base, French Guiana at 02:07 am (IST) carrying India’s GSAT-11 and South Korea’s GEO-KOMPSAT-2A […]
Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS), popularly referred to as drones, are a technology platform with wide-ranging applications. In August 2018, India had announced the release of its Civil Aviation Regulations (CAR) to enable safe flying of RPAS in India. The CAR detailed the obligations of operators, remote pilots/ users and manufacturers/ OEM for safe operations […]
The head of Russian Roscosmos space agency Dmitry Rogozin has said that the upcoming Russian mission to the moon will also be verifying whether the ‘giant leap for the mankind’ moon landing of the Americans was ever real. Narendra Modi: Blockchain will have a deep impact on the way we live The Russian Roscosmos space […]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, at a ceremony held at Jawaharlal Nehru Bhavan today handed over symbolically e-Rickshaws to Ambassador of Republic of Senegal, El Hadji Ibou Boye. EAM along with Ambassador of Senegal took a short ride in the e-Rickshaw to experience the ease of mobility that the vehicle would bring for the common […]
