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Trump test awaits NASA-ISRO's most expensive satellite
Rediff.com25 Jun 2017

If all goes on well, the NISAR satellite will be launched in 2021 from India using the...

How ISRO's new satellite will change India's Internet
Rediff.com5 Jun 2017

A truly 'made in India' satellite that will empower a digital India.

ISRO's 'monster rocket' may take Indians to space
Rediff.com30 May 2017

And the first Indian to go into space from 'Indian soil' could well be a woman.

In tribute to Kalam, NASA names new bacteria after him
Rediff.com21 May 2017

The new organism -- Solibacillus kalamii -- was found on the filters of the...

Why India's EVMs are best in world
Rediff.com26 Mar 2017

Till date, 107 elections to states and three parliamentary polls have been smoothly...

What's giving India's nuclear scientists jitters?
Rediff.com19 Mar 2017

Scientists are puzzled by what caused the mysterious nuclear leak at the Kakrapar...

Why humans can recognise faces and read
Rediff.com13 Mar 2017

A team led by Kolkata-born scientists has discovered a special sweet spot in the eye...

Choked! 2 Indians die every minute due to air pollution
Rediff.com19 Feb 2017

According to a study by the medical journal, the Lancet, air pollution has emerged as...

On Wednesday, ISRO will go where no nation has gone before
Rediff.com14 Feb 2017

On the morning of February 15, ISRO will hurl into space using the Polar Satellite...

With an eye on Venus and Mars, ISRO attempts mega world record
Rediff.com12 Feb 2017

India will boldly go to Venus for the first time and re-visit the Red Planet very soon.

Has Everest grown or lost height? We'll know soon
Rediff.com31 Jan 2017

On its 250th birthday, the Survey of India will send 30 mountaineers, armed with the...

'Gandhi should have won the Nobel Prize'
Rediff.com17 Jan 2017

Only 15 people of Indian origin have won the coveted prize. Hoping to correct this...

Surgical strikes reveal India's space prowess
Rediff.com2 Oct 2016

In the years to come, India's space assets will play a much bigger role if and when...

What Gadkari is doing to end India's fuel crisis
Rediff.com13 Sep 2016

India annually spends Rs 4.5 lakh crore on importing petroleum products, and Transport...

Revere Mother for her work, not 'miracles'
Rediff.com4 Sep 2016

For the thousands of destitute that Mother Teresa treated, she was 'god incarnate' and...

'Human sacrifice' at CERN in front of Shiva statue?
Rediff.com2 Sep 2016

Scientist are flabbergasted by the video showing an alleged human sacrifice near a...

'India's nuclear assets are very well protected'
Rediff.com17 Aug 2016

India's breakthrough in countering a 'dirty bomb'.

How sunflowers may help India meet solar energy target
Rediff.com9 Aug 2016

the connection between the sunflower mystery and the 'rotatable solar trees' India...

Indo-US research may create designer humans
Rediff.com4 Aug 2016

'This is the beginning of a big campaign which may last a hundred years of trying to...

Are India's tiger numbers inflated?
Rediff.com24 Jul 2016

How many tigers are there in India?