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 …
Aiming to set up a space station in near future, China has began erecting its fourth rocket launching centre on the Hainan island in the southern part of the country. The Hainan Space Launch Centre would come up near the Wenchang city in the north-east coast of the island and …
Investment in space exploration would give seven times return to any economy of the world which embarks on such missions, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke said today. He said, developed economies of the world are investing in space exploration to help development of people
China said on Friday that it would provide financial assistance to Pakistan for launching its first satellite and a memorandum of understanding in this connection would be signed next week. Addressing a press conference, Chinese Ambassador Lou Zhaohui said President Asif Ali Zardari and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao would …
India plans to launch its own satellite to monitor greenhouse emissions and the government has already discussed the proposal with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair and his predecessor K Kasturirangan, Environment & Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh told the Rajya Sabha today. He noted very few countries …
New Delhi: Taking a big leap in its technological quest, IIT Kanpur has developed a nano satellite which is expected to provide real-time data on drought, flood, vegetation and forestation. The satellite, designed and developed by a group of students of the institute, will be handed over to Isro, which …
An Algerian satellite with US-controlled components is expected to be the first satellite to be launched by India after the Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA) is signed between India and the US. The deal is expected to be signed during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit. Algeria
LUCKNOW: The advent of monsoon will witness another green bonanza in the state with forest department and several government agencies announcing bloated plantation targets. But it is early to believe that the new saplings planted will increase the green cover of the state. More so because plantation efforts so far …
The next two decades will see another human being setting foot on the moon--------- On July 20, we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was one of those moments when the world watched with awe as men took their first steps onto another world. …
The next two decades will see another human being setting foot on the moon--------- On July 20, we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was one of those moments when the world watched with awe as men took their first steps onto another world. …
The space programme has got a Rs 4,959 crore boost, the bulk of it going to fund research in the manned mission programme, cryogenic engines, PSLV and GSLV and space capsule recovery. The nearly 40% hike from Rs 3,499 crore last year to Rs 4,959 crore in 2009 is one …
? Oct. 22,2008. The 316-tonne PSLV C11, an upgraded version of ISRO's workhorse PSLV, blasted off from Sriharikota in AP with the 1,380-kg Chandrayaan-1, making India the sixth nation to launch a moon mission. ? Project budget: Rs 386 crore. Chandrayaan's mission life: two years. Objectives: Preparing 3-dimensional atlas of …
The space shuttle Atlantis, which was launched on May 11 with a crew of seven, returned safely to the earth after one of its most exacting missions, lasting 13 days. In this period the astronauts performed five spacewalks
MUKESH RANJAN NEW DELHI June 5: Claiming that urbanisation and industrialisation, including Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are inevitable to take place in growing India, deputy chairman of planning commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said, acquisition of certain portion of irrigated farmland for the purpose could not be avoided. "I agree that …
There is no crying in space, but Monday was perhaps as close as it gets to a blubberfest in space helmets. As he headed into the airlock of the space shuttle Atlantis after the fifth and final spacewalk to tune up the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronaut and astronomer John …
A rocket carrying the largest telescope ever made has been sent into space on a mission that scientists hope will help unravel the mystery of the creation of the universe. The Ariane 5 rocket of the European Space Agency, left, launched Thursday from Kourou, carries the Herschel space telescope and …
