On the positive side, if India indeed decides to go ahead with the manned mission, it would give a tremendous impetus to the development of many new technologies, including relating to life-supporting ones.
Readers' wishes to Irfan Pathan, who turned 21 on October 27.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair acknowledged that with the booming IT sector absorbing young engineers with fat pay packets, other fields are facing the brunt.
New Delhi has targeted to boost the number of transponders India currently has from 199 to 500 by the end of the 11th five year plan (March 2012), Secretary in the Department of Space G Madhavan Nair said.
ISRO will build an identical GSLV and a satellite similar to INSAT-4C for a launch in June next year.
ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said Chandrayaan-2, to be undertaken by 2010, will have a proper lander, which would land on the lunar surface and try to explore the surface in far more detail.
'What does the nation get out of the CBI's fabulous infrastructure? Very little that is useful.'
Like the rest of India, film folk like Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Karan Johar came out on their balconies to clap and give a shout-out to people, who have been providing medical and other essential services during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as part of PM Narendra Modi's Janta curfew initiative.
Here's the guest list.
Nair has said that India needs to have a dialogue with Google.
Madhavan talks about his career, and what to expect from him.
Madhavan talks about Rang De Basanti, and his Guru experience.
Not really chart-topping stuff, it does, however, have some very fine songs.
Check out the star arrivals.
The Indian Space Research Organisation is set to rake in a revenue of about Rs 1,250 crore (Rs 12.5 billion) with the launch of INSAT-4B satellite as transponders are fully booked on the back of booming demand for Direct-To-Home services.
The TV broadcasting and VSAT networks, he said, have become `niche' market for satellite services in India and half of the satellite TV channels and their news feeds covering India are in the INSAT system.
A look at the Holi releases in the past decade.
Indian space scientists are designing a new generation satellite with unfurlable antenna for mobile television services - the proposed spacecraft would have multimedia applications as well.
Take a look at the celeb arrivals.
The ISRO chairman said there was no proposal now to send any Indian astronaut to space through the US.
NASA plans to deploy mini-synthetic aperture radar and spectrometer with 0.3 micron to 0.9-micron capabilities in the Indian spacecraft for experiments.
Writer Victor talks about Dhoom:2 and Guru.
Indian space scientists have received signals of Indian National Satellite-4A.
The Terms and Conditions for the Design a Spacecraft contest.
Joker, Thithi, Maheshinte Prathikaram and Pelli Choopulu bag the big awards of the night!
The IT industry has been crying hoarse over the lack of talent for a long time now and this is now being considered as the biggest threat to India's domination as an IT superpower.
Sheela Jaywant invites you to explore The GoaWriters Group's interesting look at the lockdown.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited ISRO's Satellite Centre and TCS's facility in the International Tech Park in Bangalore.
'ISRO facilities are very expensive and any damage caused by these start-ups can create havoc to our space programme.'
According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research, the overall air quality of the national capital docked at 376 at 8:30 am on Tuesday.
Taking a lesson from last year's tsunami disaster, sensors are being planted in the seabed to record seismological changes, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation.
'The first time a ban on women aged between 10 and 50 entering Sabarimala came was in 1991 and was by a high court judgment.' 'So, it is only a 27-year-old ban.' 'The high court can fix customs and the Supreme Court can overturn it.' 'I don't see this as an attack on religious freedom or the practice of a religion.'
Take a look at how celebs swore by black at the GeoSpa AsiaSpa India Awards.
