India Monday significantly boosted its space capabilities with the copybook launch of a Rs.700 million ($17.4 million) rocket that simultaneously placed in orbit 10 satellites - two Indian and eight foreign.
The launch firmly established India as a major player in the $1 billion global satellite launch market, a significant milestone in the country's 45-year-old space programme.
For lakhs of aspirants who don't make it to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the new year has brought in cheer—this tech school is opening its classrooms beginning Wednesday for engineering colleges across the country.
As reported by TOI on December 8, IIT-Bombay will broadcast its lectures live through Edusat, the satellite which caters exclusively to the educational sector.
For lakhs of aspirants who don’t make it to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), here’s something to cheer about. After earlier putting the IIT open courseware online, IIT-Bombay is going one step further and opening its classrooms to the world.
Starting January 2008 it will broadcast its lectures live through Edusat, the satellite which caters exclusively to the educational sector.
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Environment Minister Ganesh Naik, who came up with the idea of selling Mumbai's open spaces only a year ago, has suddenly turned a green campaigner.
Himself the owner of three quarries and well-known for his enormous influence over the quarrying business in Navi Mumbai, Naik has now called for a ban on quarrying in the satellite city.
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Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? rnWe are the first in milk production. rnWe are number one in remote sensing satellites. rnWe are the second largest producer of wheat. rnrnWe are
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