'ISRO provides a very positive atmosphere. What matters here is your talent, not your gender,' says Ritu Karidhal, Deputy Operations Director, India's Mars orbital mission, Mangalyaan. A fascinating excerpt from Minnie Vaid's Those Magnificent Women And Their Flying Machines, Isro's Mission To Mars.
'So much so we don't feel the need to create anything, but just bask in that glory.' 'It's time to move on.' 'How much burden can you put on a person or the legacy of the person?'
Alert to the looming threat from the 'Omicron' variant, states began to re-tighten curbs and urgently trace people who arrived from abroad in the last one month while a demand to not allow flights from the affected countries was made by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
US space shuttle Discovery lifted off for its final flight from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to deliver a new module and critical supplies to the International Space Station, late Thursday night.
The annual cap has under sharp focus after this week's announcement that two Russian-born scientists at the University of Manchester, Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov, won the Nobel prize for Physics.
By winning the Nobel prize winner at the age of 17, Malala has become the youngest ever Nobel laureate.
Dietician Komal Jethmalani provides the right answer.
'The cost of the lockdown so far is the loss of about 11 million jobs.' 'It is important that a fresh lockdown does not make this worse,' asserts Mahesh Vyas.
Veteran cricketer Kapil Dev, on Saturday, said the topic of wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni's future in T20s is better left to the selectors.
'Education is disconnected from social reality and does not even attempt to solve the real problems of our country,' observe Peehu Pardeshi and Sandeep Pandey.
Nehru's faith in science and technology, his genuine respect for Bhabha, and their burning ambition worked synergistically to place India on the nuclear map of the world. Atomic energy developed and prospered because of Nehru's vision fulfilled by Bhabha's mission, recalls K S Parthasarathy, former secretary of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, on the occasion of India's first prime minister's 119th birthday today.
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.
Over 80% of graduate engineers passing out of universities in India are unemployable. With digitisation going mainstream, this skill deficit can be redressed through world-class training material, points out Ankit Shyamsukha, CEO, ICA Edu Skill.
Sounds good? This is science fiction but the science quotient is, so to speak, being enhanced, as the grasp of genetics improves, says Devangshu Datta.
Scientists claim to have finally solved the mystery after they discovered a major source of hot gas that replenishes the corona -- jets of plasma shooting up from just above the Sun's surface, the 'Science' journal reported.
Steve Jobs' resignation is biggest blow to Apple, which is at the peak of its success.
Applications are invited from Indian citizens for admission to degree course (BHMS) in Homoeopathy at the National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata for the academic year 2010-2011.
Exam centres will not only ensure social distancing among examinees -- there will also be a strong focus on avoiding malpractices and conducting the test with minimal human intervention.
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda officials have announced the launch a special lecture series in Physics named after Nobel Prize winner V Ramkrishnan
Dr Rao accelerated the development of rocket technology which led to the successful launch of ASLV and PSLV satellites.
The Pakistani Taliban have mastered the science of manufacturing explosive devices using more toxic chemicals to inflict lethal injuries on their victims, according to a media report.
Rediff reader Hari Krishnan Nair, 43 from Kenya shares his suggestions on how to make the most of the lockdown.
As with the Spanish flu, the world must be ready for a second and third wave as this start-stop-start-stop response plays out, recommends Rahul Jacob.
Her residence may have been the centre of a political storm for over a year but that did not deter Harshita, daughter of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, who came out with flying colours scoring 96 per cent in her Class XII CBSE exam.
Spiritual guru Sathya Sai Baba died at a hospital in Puttaparthi on Sunday morning. He was 86.
Two de-orbit manoeuvres of Vikram Lander, to bring it further down, have been planned to prepare for its landing in the south polar region of the moon.
'Yoga can increase the volume of hippocampus and improve memory.'
Vipul Singh from Bhilai earned the first rank in AIEEE and the fifth rank in IIT-JEE this year. He shares with Nitin Jindal his journey to the top.
After more than four years of orbiting Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will crash into the solar system's innermost planet in two weeks when it runs out of propellant.
These tips will help you excel in the competitive exam.
'Chances of getting the disease are not reduced, either after one dose or both doses of the vaccine.' 'And the probability of getting the infection -- you need to differentiate infection from disease -- by getting vaccinated is almost unaltered, be it single dose or two doses.' 'But your chances of developing moderate to severe disease, after getting infected, gets reduced with every dose you receive.'
The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft is expected to reach the moon's orbit on August 20 and land on lunar surface on September 7.
What would happen if the home minister chose to go to the movies, and watched the current science-fiction hit, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
The mind block against online education is crumbling and the demand may be led not just by parents but also teachers.
Shubham Sharma tells us how he went from 90 to 65 kgSHUBHAM .
Applications are invited for admission to MTech programme at IIT Madras under sponsorship scheme.
There's no silver bullet to get rid of poverty, says Alok Sheel.
The nine-second de-orbiting or retro-orbiting manoeuvre was executed at 3.42 am using the onboard propulsion system.
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