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 …
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh plans to increase the government's R&D; spending and create incentives for the private sector to increase spending on science and technology as well.
Former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) G. Madhavan Nair, on Saturday, said the Mullaperiyar dam row required a scientific solution not a political one. He said the ISRO would be able to contribute significantly to any such scientific effort to study the issue. He was speaking at …
Bhubaneswar: With Space Based Information Support for Decentralized Planning (SIS-DSP), a new space-based technology providing useful data, the Odisha government has planned to use it for micro-level planning and monitoring. The new technique has been able to create large-scale GIS data on land cover, settlements, soil, slope, water sources, road …
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's maiden satellite mission to decode monsoon and climate changes was launched today when its polar rocket successfully put an Indo-French satellite into orbit that also proved its reliability for the 19th time in a row. Blasting off in clear weather from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, Isro's workhorse …
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s workhorse rocket, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18), triumphed once again when it successfully put four satellites in orbit this morning. The satellites are: Megha-Tropiques, an Indo-French satellite to study weather and climate in the tropical region of the world; SRMSat, built by students of SRM …
On-board satellite Megha-Tropiques to decode climate phenomena Science meets faith: ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan comes out of the Lord Venkateshwara temple in Tirupati after offering prayers for the successful launch of PSLV-C18, on Tuesday. — PTI Southwest monsoon may soon shed some of its mystery as Indo-French satellite Megha-Tropiques will …
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 …
A DC-based think tank has used evidence of construction activity visible on freely available Google Earth satellite images to argue that India's uranium enrichment programme is being expanded. Releasing satellite imagery of the Rare Materials Plant (RMP) near Mysore on Wednesday, the Institute for Science and International Security said an …
It will be launched from Sriharikota on October 12; two satellites built by students Preparations are on for the lift-off of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18) from the spaceport at Sriharikota at 11 a.m. on October 12. Global tropical weather The rocket will put four satellites in the orbit: …
The Vikram A SARABHAI COMMUNITY SCIENCE CENTRE, AHMEDABAD WINS THE TOI SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD FOR ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF EDUCATION (NGO CATEGORY) Ahmedabad: On a Friday afternoon Kush Saluja, a Class VII student, carefully dissects a bright pink flower so that he can study pollen under a microscope. …
For the first time in India, scientific tests will be conducted on the Himalayan glaciers in Uttarakhand to measure the impact of carbon soot on glaciers. Scientists from Indian Space Research Organisation, Uttarakhand Space Application Centre and Space Physics Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, will conduct these tests slated to begin September 24, …
Amid requests from various countries for launch of their satellites, India has decided to set up one more launch site to expand its capacity in this aspect. At a meeting held by the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary T K A Nair here to review performance of the Department of Space, …
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to build a new class of powerful communication satellites that packs more capacity and new technologies, its Chairman K Radhakrishnan said here today. This kind of spacecraft would handle larger amount of power and accommodate more number of transponders in the same satellite, he …
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to build a new class of powerful communication satellites that packs more capacity and new technologies, its Chairman, Dr K. Radhakrishnan, said here today. This kind of spacecraft would handle larger amount of power and accommodate more number of transponders in the same …
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) with the joint effort of Forest Department has installed a carbon measurement centre at Sukwan beat of Tawadi forest division in Betul district. Testing of various sensors has also been started from the tower of this centre. Forest department sources informed that this is the …
GUWAHATI, July 27 – Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan, who is also the Secretary, Union Department of Space, said today that the ISRO has been extending support to the remote sensing centres of the States. Dr Radhakrishnan, who was talking to this correspondent during his short …
