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SFC test fire Dhanush missile successfully

India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) successfully test-fired nuclear-capable Dhanush ballistic missile from a naval ship off Odisha coast. Dhanush Missile: Surface-to-surface missile developed by DRDO under the Integrated...

November 25, 2013

Prof CNR Rao becomes first Indian scientist elected to Chinese Academy of Science

Eminent Scientist and Bharat Ratna awardee Prof CNR Rao has become the first Indian scientist to be elected as honorary foreign member of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)....

November 23, 2013

Sukhoi-30 chosen to mount BrahMos: IAF

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has decided to make its deep penetration Sukhoi-30 fighter jets a platform to mount the air version of supersonic BrahMos missiles, whose first...

November 23, 2013

Still some time for 'Voice Over LTE' technology to arrive in India

‘Voice Over LTE’ technology, which will soon be deployed in USA shortly by some of the mobile companies, has still some time to yet arrive in India. Indian operators...

November 23, 2013

NASA discovers granite on Mars

As per a research team from the US space agency NASA, granite – an igneous rock common on Earth— could be found in abundance on Mars. The research backed...

November 22, 2013

Mars refreshes asteroids: Scientists

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found that Mars causes “refreshing” of some near-Earth asteroids, causing the space rocks to appear redder than meteorites. What is...

November 22, 2013

NASA launches MAVEN to explore Mars

In a bid to dismantle the ancient mystery of Mar’s radical climate change, US space agency NASA launched robotic explorer MAVEN rocketed toward the red planet. The unmanned spacecraft...

November 20, 2013

Sun to swap its polarity within weeks: NASA

According to the US space agency NASA, the Sun’s magnetic field will reverse its polarity within weeks. Although the event is normal and not catastrophic, it will send ripple effects...

November 17, 2013

Researchers working to replace computer passwords with Biometrics

Scientists at Purdue University (USA) are working on technology that could replace passwords used in computer with biometrics such as iris and fingerprint scans. As per experts, iris...

November 14, 2013

P/2013 P5: Newly discovered asteroid with six ‘tails’

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it. The asteroid named P/2013 P5 is different from all other known asteroids...

November 13, 2013

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