ISRO all set, Sun mission to take 125 days to reach exact radius

Days after landing on the Moon, India will aim for the Sun on Saturday with its maiden solar expedition, as ISRO's trusted PSLV will carry the Aditya L1 mission on a 125-day voyage to the Sun. The......

Central panel blacklists 44 deemed universities

Failure to obtain a score over 40 per cent on nine different criteria like governance, research output and faculty resources has led to the blacklisting of 44 deemed universities by a government......

Space pioneer U R Rao passes into the ages

Renowned space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organisation chairman Udupi Ramachandra Rao, who was the brain behind India's first satellite Aryabhata and guided the country's key space......

ISRO set to launch satellite to study black holes

Off to a flying start, Indian Space Research Organisation on Monday ushered in 2024 with the successful launch of its first X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite that would offer insights into black holes in......

The man who made happy living spaces

Not a single person among all those who met him in the past 62 years of his life in India or spent a day in one of the homes designed and built by him, could describe or talk about Laurie Baker as......

How India can get the best researchers

The aggregate domestic R&D spend in India has never exceeded 1 per cent of GDP, and over 80 per cent of Indian firms spend nothing on research, says Shyamal Majumdar. Last Sunday, Prime Minister......

Pranab Mukherjee's Interim Budget speech

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also managing the finance ministry, presented the Interim Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Monday. Following is the text of the entire Budget......