Former ISRO chief MGK Menon passes away
Professor MGK Menon, an acclaimed physicist, who had played a prominent role in the development of science and technology in the country over the last five decades, breathed his last…
India’s nuclear programme making rapid strides: Minister
AMN /NEW DELHI India’s Minister for Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has said that country’s nuclear programme has made rapid strides in the last two years and the…
DRDO Signs MoU With IIT Delhi to Establish JATC
NEW DELHI / Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi to establish a ‘Joint Advanced Technology Centre’ (JATC)…
China launches its longest ever manned mission to space
China today launched spacecraft in longest-ever manned mission, taking two astronauts into orbit. They will spend a month aboard an experimental space laboratory that is part of a broader plan…
India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-18 successfully launched
AMN India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-18 was successfully launched early this morning by a heavy duty rocket of Arianespace from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana. The European launcher…
Trio wins Nobel chemistry prize for ‘world’s smallest machines’
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world’s smallest machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa will share the…
Nobel Physics prize goes to 3 for topology work
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were on Tuesday chosen for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited their “theoretical discoveries of topological…
Medicine Nobel for Japanese Biologist
Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan won the the 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Ohsumi was awarded the prize for discoveries about autophagy – the study on how the body…
CSIR needs to create ‘Ease of doing Technology Business’ platform: PM
Our Correspondent Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR needs to create ease of doing technology Business platform to bring in right…
ISRO launches INSAT- 3DR weather satellite
Indian Space and Research Organisation, ISRO successfully launches GSLV-F05 rocket carrying advanced weather satellite INSAT-3DR; The launch from Sriharikota is the first operational flight of GSLV with indigenous cryogenic technology…