Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the 99th Indian Science Congress here on Tuesday, during which scientists will deliberate issues such as climate change, food security, clean energy and space technology. The theme of this year’s Congress is ‘Science and Technology for Inclusive Innovation — Role of Women’ and will …
BEIJING: China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released on Thursday that shows the country's space program is gathering momentum. China has already said its eventual goals are to have a space station …
The UN Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have published a report on space-based technologies and climate change. The report, titled "Space and Climate Change: Use of Space-based Technologies in the United Nations System," sets out the importance of global observing systems, including space-based …
A nuclear-powered rover as big as a compact car is set to begin a nine-month journey to Mars this weekend to learn if the planet is or ever was suitable for life. The launch of NASA's $2.5 billion (1.6 billion pound) Mars Science Laboratory aboard an unmanned United Launch Alliance …
China placed two satellites in orbit on Sunday, including a spacecraft that will collect and relay data for disaster relief efforts, state press reported. The two satellites were successfully launched aboard a Long March carrier rocket, China’s main space launch vehicle, from northwest China’s Jiuquan satellite launch centre, Xinhua news …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today released the first report the People of the Nation Innovation Council function here today with a call for innovation in solving the problems of the poor and the underprivileged. “Indeed we see innovation as truly a game changer to move from incremental change to radical …
NEW DELHI, 15 NOV: The Prime Minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, today called for an “inclusive model” that benefits not only the rich but also the poor through poverty eradication, development of agriculture and health. Terming innovation as a “game changer”, Mr Singh said: “Innovation has a critical role to play …
BALASORE: India on Tuesday added another feather in its strategic defence profile by successfully test launching a new generation missile Agni-IV, first of its kinds in the world, with a high accuracy, from a defence base off the Odisha coast. Having a strike range of over 3,000 km, this indegenously …
A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off amid heavy snow in Kazakhstan on Monday morning, beginning a two-day trip to ferry three astronauts to the International Space Station and opening a new era of US dependence on Russia — and eventually on commercial enterprises — for space travel. NASA ended its …
China's first space docking this week highlights the central government's success with its much-vaunted space program as the Communist Party struggles with other technology-intensive projects, particularly high-speed rail. As the U.S. has drawn down manned space missions and retired the last in its fleet of space shuttles, China is gearing …
China's first space docking this week highlights the central government's success with its much-vaunted space program as the Communist Party struggles with other technology-intensive projects, particularly high-speed rail. As the U.S. has drawn down manned space missions and retired the last in its fleet of space shuttles, China is gearing …
China has launched an unmanned spaceship in the latest step towards creating its own manned space station by 2020. The Shenzhou VIII is scheduled to dock with another craft 343km above the earth’s surface later this week, as China practises a key technique first used by the US and Russia …
Russia launched its first unmanned space flight to supply the International Space Station Sunday since an August crash left a half-sized crew on the orbital outpost and raised concerns over Moscow's role as the sole space flight provider. The Progress freighter blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as …
The U.S. space agency on Friday launched a first-of-its kind satellite that will send back data on weather and climate to help forecasters predict major storms and other changes in the environment. “Liftoff of the Delta II with the NPP satellite, blazing the way in new technology for climate research …
A Russian Soyuz rocket will blast off from French Guiana on Thursday in a new East-West partnership designed to redraw commercial competition in space. The scheduled lift-off is the first time that Soyuz, which first flew in 1966 and traces its roots back even further to the earliest Cold War …
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, has ended India’s import dependence on the West for ejection systems needed to launch nano-satellites into space. For the first time in its history of nano-satellite launching, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) yesterday used the indigenously built separation mechanism (ejection system) designed …
It will provide simultaneous data on humidity, rainfall, water vapour, temperature The Megha-Tropiques satellite is designed to study clouds in the tropical regions of the world that play a major role in climate change, said Roddam Narasimha, Member, Space Commission, on Wednesday at Sriharikota. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18) …
India has come to expect nothing but success of the PSLV rocket, and the country was not disappointed. Today, the old workhorse accomplished its mission flawlessly, from its lift-off into the cloudy skies over the Sriharikota satellite launch centre at 11.01 am and, between 22 and 25 minutes after that, …
CHENNAI, 10 OCT: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready for the launch of PSLV-C18 scheduled at 11 a.m. on 12 October from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. The launch will be the twentieth flight of India's more successful Polar Satellite launch vehicle (PSLV). The 50-hour …
It was conceived as a scientific satellite experiment of India and France in the late 1990s. Megha-Tropiques, scheduled to fly out of Sriharikota on Wednesday, finds itself at the forefront of global tropical climate and cloud study. In a month's time, once it starts looking down from a distance 800 …
