14 powerful images from Sony World Photography Awards 2016

The winners of the 2016 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards, the world’s biggest photography competition, organised by the World Photography Organisation, have been announced in the......

An Indian mission to Venus?

India, with its demonstrated capabilities of undertaking low cost high value inter-planetary travel, offers great opportunities for NASA to work with, says Pallava Bagla An Indo-US deep space......

PHOTOS: Mangalyaan and other successful Mars missions

India made history on Wednesday as its maiden Mars mission, Mangalyaan, entered the red planet's orbit India has become the first country to go to Mars in its maiden attempt. And it has beaten......

India's Mars mission isn't about science, but spectacle

The Mars mission is overwhelmingly irrelevant to space science and won't advance the frontiers of knowledge, says Praful Bidwai. Militant-nationalist euphoria is invariably conjured up whenever......