Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Boosted By Chandrayaan-1 Success, Isro Plans To Launch Manned Mission To Space, Moon & Planetary Expeditions In The Next 25 Yrs Srinivas Laxman | TNN Chandrayaan has made India dream of the universe. The thrust area of the country
New analysis of scientific data from a NASA instrument aboard the 2008 Indian moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has detected more than 40 ice-filled craters in the lunar north pole, reviving hopes for colonization of the moon by humans in future. The new data, published in the Geophysical Research Letters by US …
The Mines Ministry in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has embarked on a project to create a tenement registry of mining leases that would help settle boundary disputes and curb illegal mining.
AMSTERDAM: It seems Tata Motors is on a green diet. After showcasing the electric Indica and announcing plans for a hybrid Nano, Tata Motors has now developed a range of hydrogen fuel cell-powered buses and light trucks. The fuel cell-powered commercial vehicles, developed at Tata Motors
New Delhi: India is going to map its slums. And for Mumbai, where proliferating slums are a nightmare for civic planners, it should bring hope. The ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation (Hupa) will do satellite mapping of all slums in the country under the slum-free cities initiative of …
After the success of Chandrayaan 1, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch India's first manned mission to space in 2016. Talking to reporters in Bangalore on Wednesday, ISRO Chairman, K Radhakrishnan, said that two astronauts will be sent to space for a week-long space odyssey in 2016. "We …
For Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) the rare and longest solar eclipse on Friday is going to be crucial to study the atmospheric changes and its consequences before, during and after the eclipse. According to ISRO officials, the premiere space research agency, is going to launch a series of rockets …
There was a time when desert in India was synonymous with the Thar in Rajasthan. But the sands have flown across—unchecked and uncontained—and taken over parts of Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh as they advance by half a kilometre every year. There would soon be more contenders on …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Inter-planetary exploration, global warming, the predicted boom in the Indian aerospace sector and the relentless search for dark energy were some of the topics that dominated the Space Summit organised on the second day of the 97th Indian Science Congress here on Monday. With natural disasters on the increase, …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Plans to put two Indians in space by 2015 require cutting edge technologies such as building a robust and reliable launch vehicle, a livable crew capsule, providing life support systems for the astronauts and
T.S. Subramanian THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has embarked on a programme to induct semi-cryogenic engines, which will use kerosene as fuel, and this engine will form the booster for its future launch vehicles, ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said on Sunday. The Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mark …
BHUBANESWAR: Is desertification process in Orissa already on? The answer appears to be yes if one goes by the latest report of Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad that has bracketed Orissa among top five States facing
COPENHAGEN WAS going to be the big opportunity to sign on to a better environmental world order. Instead, the road to it has been marked with zero-visibility smog impairing collective human vision. Just when one thought things could not get worse, along came
