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SFC test-fires Agni-1 successfully

November 10, 2013

India’s Strategic Forces Command successfully test-fired nuclear weapons-capable, surface-to-surface Agni-1 missile for its full range of 700 km from Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast. The single-stage, solid-fuelled missile was launched from a road mobile launcher as part of a ..

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Google doodle marks Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday

November 9, 2013

Celebrating the 129th birthday of Hermann Rorschach, Google dedicated a doodle on its homepage depicting inkblot testsdeveloped by the eminent psychoanalyst. Who was Hermann Rorschach? Born on November 8, 1884 in Zurich, Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. In 1909, Rorschach ..

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MEA launches Passport Seva mobile app for Windows & Apple platforms

November 7, 2013

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has launched its Passport Sewa mobile application for Windows and Apple iOS platforms. The Ministry is encouraged by the public response it received for app’s android version it had released in March this year. What is ..

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Pakistan test-fires Hatf IX (Nasr) successfully

November 7, 2013

Pakistan successfully test-fired surface-to-surface short-range Hatf IX (Nasr) missile as part of efforts to strengthen its nuclear arsenal. The test was conducted with successive launches of 4 x missiles (Salvo) from a multi tube launcher. Nasr, with a range of ..

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Indian Navy inducts first fully indigenous Hawk Advanced Jet Trainers

November 7, 2013

Indian Navy inducted the first fully indigenous Hawk Advanced Jet Trainers (AJT) manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited at INS Dega in Vishakhapatnam. About Hawk AJT Hawk AJT is a dual seat multi-purpose aircraft powered by a single Rolls Royce Adour ..

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Mars nerve centre moves to ISTRAC

November 6, 2013

After putting the India’s maiden spacecraft to Mars into space from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the nerve centre of the ongoing Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has been shifted to the Bangalore-based tracking centre,ISTRAC (ISRO ..

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Bangladesh allows commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal

November 5, 2013

The Government of Bangladesh has given nod to the commercial cultivation of transgenic Bt brinjal, making it the first South Asian country to cultivate the genetically modified food crop. As per Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), the government has approved ..

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India’s Mangalyaan blasts off for 300-day odyssey to Red Planet

November 5, 2013

India’s ambitious Mars mission, orbiter Mangalyaan lifted off into space from Sriharikota spaceport, starting its 300-day voyage to study the Red Planet’s atmosphere. The 350-tonne rocket carrying the 1,340-kg spacecraft was launched from the space facility on November 5, 2013 ..

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Pragati: India’s newly developed surface-to-surface missile

November 2, 2013

DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization) has developed a new tactical surface-to-surface missile Pragati which has a range between 60-170 km.  India will offer the missile to friendly nations. The Pragati missile is based on the Prahaar missile developed by ..

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Kepler 78b: Newly discovered planet

November 2, 2013

Astronomers have discovered a new planet called Kepler 78b which has a similar mass and density to that of Earth. The planet revolves around a star 400 light years away. It is composed mostly of rock and iron, very similar ..

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