How Nibe Is Helping Boost India's Defence

'If you take any ministry of defence project, Nibe is up there, getting orders.' Kindly note the image of the Indian Army's Pinaka missiles during the 75th Republic Day Parade rehearsal has been......

India conducts 2 flight tests of short-range air defence missile

India has conducted two successful flight tests of a very short-range air defence missile off the coast of Odisha. Image used for representational purpose only. Photograph: ANI Photo The tests......

'Fear continues across Joshimath'

'Cracks continue to appear in more and more houses.''We believe the government is not going to tell us the truth.' IMAGE: A view of snow covered areas in Joshimath. Photograph: ANI Photo The......

'I told them India was like a giant jumbo jet. It would take off slowly and be unstoppable'

This doctor couple put their faith in India. And in return India has put faith in them. IMAGE: The Parikhs in Paris in 1984. On December 5, 1988, a cold winter evening, an Air India plane touched......

Big Pharma cures for ailing heritage monuments

The world of big pharma and that of cultural heritage protection do not obviously overlap. But in fact there are logical connections, or so claims Dr Alex Valcke, vice president of one of the......

The DRDO's most unusual lab

During the Second World War, Field Marshall William Slim, commander of the 14th Army in Burma, discovered that the anopheles mosquito was causing more casualties to his men than the Japanese.......

US outsourcing drug research to India

In her swank headquarters just blocks from some of Mumbai's worst slums, Swati Piramal is midway through an impassioned pitch about revolutionising the world of drug discovery. Sanskrit passages of......

Which was the world's first postage stamp?

Of This and That FIRST may be an acronym for 'For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology', the word has a weird magical power. Everyone is in the rat race to be first......