GIANT METREWAVE RADIO TELESCOPE NCRA, a centre of the school of natural sciences of the TIFR, has set up a unique facility, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope for radio astronomical research at metre wavelengths. GMRT is a very versatile instrument…
EOS-01 Satellite It is an earth observation satellite. EOS-01 is nothing but another Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT) that will work together with RISAT-2B and RISAT-2BR1 launched last year. This is the first launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation since the COVID-19-induced…
CSIRs Indigen Project It was implemented by the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad. This has enabled benchmarking the scalability of genome sequencing and computational analysis at population scale…
BeiDou Navigation Satellite System China successfully launched the last satellite of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The satellite, the 55th in the family of BeiDou that means “Big Dipper” in Chinese, was successfully sent into space by a Long March-3B…
Anti-microbial resistance in India Antimicrobial resistance is an important concern for the public health authorities at a global level. However, in developing countries like India, recent hospital and some community-based data showed an increase in the burden of antimicrobial resistance.…
ISRO and Indian Space Technology India decided to go to space when the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) was set up by the Government of India in 1962. With the visionary Dr Vikram Sarabhai at its helm, INCOSPAR…