All stories by Pallava Bagla
Trump test awaits NASA-ISRO's most expensive satellite
Rediff.com25 Jun 2017If all goes on well, the NISAR satellite will be launched in 2021 from India using the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
How ISRO's new satellite will change India's Internet
Rediff.com5 Jun 2017A truly 'made in India' satellite that will empower a digital India.
ISRO's 'monster rocket' may take Indians to space
Rediff.com30 May 2017And 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 2017The new organism -- Solibacillus kalamii -- was found on the filters of the International Space Station.
Why India's EVMs are best in world
Rediff.com26 Mar 2017Till date, 107 elections to states and three parliamentary polls have been smoothly conducted using the EVMs.
What's giving India's nuclear scientists jitters?
Rediff.com19 Mar 2017Scientists are puzzled by what caused the mysterious nuclear leak at the Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant in Gujarat last year, reveals Pallava Bagla.
Why humans can recognise faces and read
Rediff.com13 Mar 2017A team led by Kolkata-born scientists has discovered a special sweet spot in the eye plays a crucial role in humans being able to to focus on computer screens and also read, an ability which is unique to Homo sapiens.
Choked! 2 Indians die every minute due to air pollution
Rediff.com19 Feb 2017According to a study by the medical journal, the Lancet, air pollution has emerged as the deadliest form of pollution and the fourth leading risk factor for premature deaths worldwide.
On Wednesday, ISRO will go where no nation has gone before
Rediff.com14 Feb 2017On the morning of February 15, ISRO will hurl into space using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle three Indian satellites and 101 small foreign satellites. No other country has ever tried to hit a century in a single mission.
With an eye on Venus and Mars, ISRO attempts mega world record
Rediff.com12 Feb 2017India 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 2017On its 250th birthday, the Survey of India will send 30 mountaineers, armed with the most modern equipment, to measure the height of Mount Everest.
'Gandhi should have won the Nobel Prize'
Rediff.com17 Jan 2017Only 15 people of Indian origin have won the coveted prize. Hoping to correct this situation soon, India has embarked on the most intense dialogue with Nobel Foundation till date.
Surgical strikes reveal India's space prowess
Rediff.com2 Oct 2016In the years to come, India's space assets will play a much bigger role if and when hostilities break out on our borders, says Pallava Bagla.
What Gadkari is doing to end India's fuel crisis
Rediff.com13 Sep 2016India annually spends Rs 4.5 lakh crore on importing petroleum products, and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari feels methane is a cost-effective import substitution. But is it? Pallava Bagla examines the pros and cons.
Revere Mother for her work, not 'miracles'
Rediff.com4 Sep 2016For the thousands of destitute that Mother Teresa treated, she was 'god incarnate' and her hand was the miracle of love the poor needed. Attributing scientifically-unproven remedies as miracles does not help the followers of Missionaries of Charity and humanity in general, says Pallava Bagla.
'Human sacrifice' at CERN in front of Shiva statue?
Rediff.com2 Sep 2016Scientist are flabbergasted by the video showing an alleged human sacrifice near a Chola period statue gifted to CERN by India.
'India's nuclear assets are very well protected'
Rediff.com17 Aug 2016India's breakthrough in countering a 'dirty bomb'.
How sunflowers may help India meet solar energy target
Rediff.com9 Aug 2016the connection between the sunflower mystery and the 'rotatable solar trees' India plans to develop.
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 understand the human body in detail.'