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 …
In a major step towards boosting India's capabilities to study oceanography, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), the time-tested workhorse of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is all set to place the 960 kg satellite, Oceansat-2, in a sun-synchronous orbit tomorrow. This will be India's 16th space mission from the …
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
CHANDRAYAAN-I may have met a premature death, but its mission remains more or less accomplished. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has said that the termination of Chandrayaan-1 last week after losing radio contact with earth will not impact the retrieval of scientific data it has carried out in …
ISRO is planning to build two new satellites especially for environmental monitoring even as it is stepping up efforts to use its assessment on agriculture conditions and weather to effectively help people on the ground in co-ordination with other government agencies. "One (satellite) is mainly for studying aerosols and related …
Error In Moon Temp Calculation Led To Failure Panaji: The reasons for early termination of the Chandrayaan-I mission are now tumbling out and they reveal that Isro had kept the Moon orbiter
Panaji: Isro chief G Madhavan Nair was on Monday elected president of the International Academy of Astronautics, becoming the first non-American to head the half-a-century-old organisation of world
Chota Dhara (Lahaul): The Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) that assists scientists on gathering data on glaciers and advises the government on mountaineering, have yet to put their act together and study the much-talked
Focus Of Beach Pollution Shifts To Leaking Pipelines Gandhinagar: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) claims the mysterious hazardous substance along the 70-km stretch of south Gujarat coast is crude oil. GPCB officials said the spill, first noticed on August 1, is crude oil which has turned into thousands of tiny …
MLAs complain of non-payment of assured minimum wages by post offices Government urged to create an exclusive ministry to deal with NREGP works For transparency: MLAs and MLCs participating in the social audit of the NREGP works undertaken in villages, in the city on Tuesday.
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 …
India and China are in talks to monitor the melting of glaciers in the Himalayas, a border region crucial to both countries' water supplies, Minister for Environment Jairam Ramesh has said. "We are talking to the Chinese about monitoring the Himalayan glaciers," Ramesh told the Financial Times. However, he said …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Environment and Forests will bring out a white paper on the current state of scientific knowledge on the Himalayan glaciers. It will establish an institutional mechanism to monitor the trends and variability of glaciers and study the impact of changes on the hydrological …
