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NASA's InSight lands on Mars, sends first pictures
27 Nov 2018
InSight, during its two-year mission, will study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all celestial bodies with rocky surfaces, including Earth and the Moon, formed
Isro’s GSLV-Mk III places GSAT-29 satellite on orbit
14 Nov 2018
With the successful mission, Isro also made its heavy-lift rocket, the GSLV-Mk III, which is capable of placing satellites of up to 4,000 kg at orbits 39,000 km away from Earth, a success
`Mangalyaan' with 6-month mission life completes 4 years in orbit
01 Oct 2018
Isro released stunning images of the Red Planet after 'Mangalyaan', India's first interplanetary mission completed 4 years in orbit on 24 September 2018
Isro launches two British satellites
17 Sep 2018
This is a fully commercial launch by Isro where the whole rocket has been hired by an overseas company, fetching the state-run space agency Rs200 crore
SC awards Nambi Narayanan Rs50 lakh compensation in Isro spy case
14 Sep 2018
The SC has now ordered that the compensation be sourced from the Kerala police officers - KK Joshua, Sibi Mathews and S Vijayan - who arrested Nambi Narayanan on false charges
Isro wants industry to play partner in space business
07 Sep 2018
Isro will be setting up six incubation centres across the country to promote start-ups and small-to-medium sized enterprises so as to tap into the $330-billion global space market, said K Sivan, chairman of the space agency
Isro’s Rs10,000-cr manned space mission set for 2022
29 Aug 2018
Isro chairman K Sivan said most engineering components for the mission are ready and that the Rs10,000-crore mission will be a turning point in India’s space journey
Isro TV channel to go live in a few months
13 Aug 2018
Isro has also identified 50 satellites to be launched in the next three years, including the moon mission Chandrayaan-2, sun mission Aditya L1, GSAT-29 to boost Digital India mission and replacement satellites
Isro successfully flight-tests escape system for space crew
05 Jul 2018
The Crew Escape System test comes three and a half years after the Crew Module Atmospheric Reentry Experiment (CARE) which successfully demonstrated the spacecraft’s ability to withstand the rigors of atmospheric reentry
Isro looks to power India with helium-3 mined on moon
27 Jun 2018
Isro will send a rover to the moon in October that will scour its surface for water and helium-3, which, it believes, has enough to meet global energy demand for 250 years
India seeks $2.4 billion funding from AIIB
25 Jun 2018
India is the largest recipient of the investment finance from the AIIB, having secured 28 per cent of the $4.2 billion funds disbursed by the multilateral lender so far
India keen on more AIIB funds for nine projects
25 Jun 2018
Opec agrees to raise output by 1 mn barrels per day
23 Jun 2018
Opec members agreed to a deal on Friday to increase oil supplies by about 1 million barrels of oil per day, equivalent to an increase of 1 per cent of global supplies
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The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)
The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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