India’s space and vaccine trajectories moved with political currents rather than above them, argued a panel at the History Literature Festival in Hyderabad on Sunday.
NISAR satellite, a groundbreaking NASA-ISRO collaboration, launches July 30 from Sriharikota. This Earth observation mission will scan the planet every 12 days using advanced SAR technology.
About 20 companies initially expressed interest in bidding for the SSLV, the first privatisation of its kind under PM Narendra Modi’s policy drive to open up India’s space industry.
Using IIT Madras’ Institute of Eminence funds and access to microgravity, 7 departments collaborated in 2021 to open India’s first research centre dedicated solely to Space 2.0 research.
ISRO has continued its strides towards future lunar missions and expanded its space exploration programme as the Modi government and private players pump in investments.
A Bollywood movie, students with big dreams, a supportive pradhan, and ISRO's leap of faith gave UP's Hasudi Ausanpur village India's first primary school with its own space lab. Now, village elders are learning through science.
With a new liberalised FDI regime, India’s space sector will witness more investments and technology transfers. But how well can an executive policy function without a legal framework?
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Indian Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi said that the ongoing conflict in West Asia illustrates that speed is no longer merely an enabler of warfare but a distinct capability.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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