First images from Cartosat-2 received

The panchromatic camera on board India's latest remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2 was switched on Friday and the analysis of the first imagery confirms excellent performance of the camera. The......

Decades of warnings preceded Sikkim disaster

Several occasions in the last two decades have seen government agencies and research studies warning about potential glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in Sikkim, which can cause massive damage......

Four days on, no sign of Coast Guard aircraft wreckage

The search for the missing Coast Guard Dornier aircraft and its three crew members entered the fourth day on Friday with INS Sandhayak, a hydrographic survey vessel of the Navy, joining the......

Seven days after MiG 29 crash, no trace of wreckage yet

A week after the crash of a MiG 29 fighter in Lahaul-Spiti valley in Himachal Pradesh, the wreckage of the plane is yet to be located during search operations by the IAF, which carried out 132......

Karzai woos Indian IT firms

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday invited the Indian IT companies to set up their operations in his country. During a visit to Hitec city, which houses several Indian and multinational IT......

Antrix, Space Imaging in deal

Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation, has signed an agreement with US-based Space Imaging to market and sell data worldwide from ISRO's latest remote sensing......

Forest cover-up? Plantations in definition

How much land in India is under forest cover? No one has a clue though the Government of India has been bringing out state of the forest reports every two years for two decades. The latest report......

India never had more decisive government: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday cited his dispensation's push for wide-ranging reforms, including the privatisation of Air India, to assert that the country never had a more “decisive......

Uri: Election propaganda or genre flick?

'This is a movie made with this gaze fixed on its immediate well-wishers, while at the same time it squints hard looking for those swaying back and forth on the fence,' notes Rohit Sathish Nair.......