BharatNet broadband, base for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Digital India, for providing last-mile connectivity with High Speed Rural Broadband Network for Enabling Digital India is progressing well as 2.39 lakh kms of OFC has already been laid and Optical Fibre Connectivity is now available at more than 1 lakh Gram Panchayats (GPs) under Phase I. Launch of Phase II, with signing ...
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All India Institute of Ayurveda – Centre of Excellence
All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), the first ever, having a perfect blend of Ancient Wisdom with Modern Diagnostic Tools and Technology, modelled on the lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Delhi on the occasion of 2nd ‘Ayurveda Day’ on 17 October ‘17. Expressing his government's commitment to ach...
Stubble Burning Dropping Pollution to Severe Levels
Satellite images from NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) Web Fire Mapper, of Tuesday 31 October 2017 clearly revealed that stubble burning became more aggressive in Punjab and Haryana, leading to haze, smoke and other environmental and health concerns, despite numerous warnings by a green court and environmental authori...
Bullet Train for High Speed, High Growth & High-End Technology
Bullet train would be launched in 2022, coinciding with 75 years of India’s independence; as per announcement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday September 14, 2017; while laying foundation stone along with the Japan Prime Minster Sinzo Abe; in Ahmedabad for the country’s first Rs. 110000 crore, 508 km high-speed rail project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. India has received a loan worth ...
Cassini Spacecraft Ends Historic Exploration of Saturn
Cassini Spacecraft: with two elements: Cassini orbiter and Huygens probe, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in October 1997, spent seven years in transit, arrived at Saturn in July 2004, followed by 13 years orbiting Saturn; was the first spacecraft to observe Saturn – the ringed planet from orbit, ended its mission ...
Gyroplane could soon be a Personal Transport
Gyroplane is a bit of both a Helicopter and an Airplane that takes off almost vertically in a way similar to a helicopter and can economically cruise (fly) at speeds ranging between 100 to 160 kmph, depending upon the wind and weather conditions and are therefore good for short recreational hops only. Gyroplanes is an aircraft that derives lift from freely turning rotary wing or rotor blades ti...
India’s first locally built Scorpene Class Submarine Kalvari to be operational soon
INS Kalvari India’s first locally built Scorpene Class Submarine would soon be handed over to Indian Navy and sent to Indian Ocean on operational deployment. It is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine, the first of the six such submarines being built at Indian shipyard Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) at Mumbai port with the technical supp...
“Saraswati Supercluster” Discovery would shed Light on Density Clusters Formed Billions of Years Ago
A Supercluster of galaxies discovered by Indian astrophysicists prior to February 2016, is one of the largest, most massive and the furthest superclusters known that has been named “Saraswati Supercluster”. This supercluster is as big as 20 million billion suns, roughly more than 10 billion years old, about 4 billion light years away from Earth and spreads over a “great wall” about 600 million light years across...
India Japan Civil Nuclear Cooperation Pact Essential for Bringing a Network of Nuclear Energy Cooperation for India
India - Japan Civil Nuclear Cooperation pact that was signed in Tokyo during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Japan on November 11, 2016 came into force on Thursday, July 20, 2017 when India’s Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and Japanese Ambassador Kenji Hiramatsu exchanged diplomatic notes marking operationalisation of the pact. This civil nuclear cooperation deal t...
Cartosat-2 satellite is another ‘eye in the sky’
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in its 40th flight (PSLV-C38) launched, by the 44.4-metre tall rocket, as its primary payload the 712 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation, and 30 co-passenger satellites of various countries together weighing about 243 kg (Total weight of 955 kg) into a 505 km polar Sun ...