Indian Institute of Technology- Delhi is the country’s highest ranking institution in world with a global rank of 218, the Rajya Sabha was informed on March 30. Other Reports : The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2011 – IIT-Bombay – serial 317, The Academic Ranking of World Universities - Indian Institute of Science, [...]
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About The Program Global chip giant Intel launched the Future Scientist Programme, which aims to train science teachers in delivering the curriculum in an enquiry-based manner to the students. The programme will train teachers to present their curriculum in an inquiry-based manner to foster research and innovation among their students. As a part of the programme, [...]
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According to scientists, evaporated water helps in cooling earth as a whole, not just the local area of evaporation, a study said. A new study by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, the Carnegie Institution for Science atStanfordUniversityand Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated that evaporation of water from trees and irrigated crop areas [...]
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“Rockets have to be made reusable, and we also need indigenous launch vehicles that can fly back like a normal aircraft, and can be made ready within a day to take another launch,” said P.S. Veeraraghavan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Research Centre, here on September 16 indicating how self-reliance, the use of home-grown technologies and focussed [...]
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Assamlaunched a boat ambulance on September 13 to respond to medical emergencies in riverine areas and during floods. State Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched a boat ambulance in Sadiya in upperAssam’s Tinsukia district, which is equipped with life saving facilities. The ambulance is part of the “Mrityunjoy 108 ambulance service” being provided under the [...]
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) received 86 fresh applications for recognition as Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO ) since 31.03.2010. Out of this 12 fresh applications are pending for the decision.18 cases are pending for renewal of recognition.To clear the backlog, DSIR is now interacting with the applicants to seek the desired [...]
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NASA may not have enough astronauts in the post—shuttle era to keep the International Space Station staffed, a study released September 7 found. The US space agency has reduced its astronaut corps in recent years ahead of the July retirement of the shuttle fleet, but that number may not be sufficient if some astronauts leave [...]
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NASA may not have enough astronauts in the post—shuttle era to keep the International Space Station staffed, a study released September 7 found. The US space agency has reduced its astronaut corps in recent years ahead of the July retirement of the shuttle fleet, but that number may not be sufficient if some astronauts leave [...]
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The amount of junk in space is rising exponentially, with continuous collisions between abandoned equipment, spent rockets and other debris creating ever growing clouds of dangerous fragments, an influential report warned on September 01. The report, commissioned by NASA, says the quantity of hazardous material circling the Earth has reached a “tipping point” and poses [...]
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to build a new class of powerful communication satellites that packs more capacity and new technologies. ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said. “This kind of spacecraft will handle a larger amount of power and accommodate more number of transponders in the same satellite . ISRO plans to incorporate new [...]
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A team of researchers from theTropicalBotanic Gardenand Research Institute of have won the Dr. P. D. Sethi Award-2010 for their work in analysis of herbs using High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography. The work was done on an Indian medicinal plant Centella asiatica, commonly known as “Indian Pennywort” (Kodangan in Malayalam). The study helped to detect [...]
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The amount of junk in space is rising exponentially, with continuous collisions between abandoned equipment, spent rockets and other debris creating ever growing clouds of dangerous fragments, an influential report warned on September 1 . The report, commissioned by NASA, says the quantity of hazardous material circling the Earth has reached a “tipping point” and [...]
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Six banana farmers and an entrepreneur were honoured at the foundation day of the National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) at Thayanur village near here on aUGUST 20 . They were each presented with a shawl and an award in recognition of their achievement in banana cultivation or value addition by adopting various techniques suggested [...]
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A 10-meter long periscope, indigenously developed for a nuclear reactor at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kalpakkam and claimed to be the longest in the world, was dedicated to the nation today. The Rs. 3.9-crore periscope, manufactured by city-based Visual Education Aids (P) Ltd (VEA) in collaboration with IGCAR and others, [...]
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A researcher has come up with one of the most accurate measurements ever made of how fast the universe is expanding. Florian Beutler, doctoral candidate with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at The University of Western Australia, has calculated how fast the universe is growing by measuring the Hubble constant. “The Hubble [...]
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