Check out: 500 towns on the way to become smart cities

Last Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015, 10:14

Is your town among the 500 which are on the way to become India's modern cities.

Airbus group merges India business units

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 21:11

Global aerospace major Airbus on Wednesday announced merging its Indian business divisions into a single entity to support its Make in India plans.

Mars mission will mark beginning of glorious chapter: PM

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 23:37

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday wished success to the forthcoming Mars Orbiter programme, saying the mission will mark the beginning of a new glorious chapter for India in space explorations.

India’s cryogenic conundrum

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 15:05

January 5, 2014 was the day which has been permanently embedded in the contemporary history of India.

ISRO yet to pick up rover built by IIT-K

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 22:22

ISRO had given a project to IIT Kanpur to develop a rover to be launched with Chandrayaan-II, which the university`s scientists completed in 2010, but the space agency was yet to pick it up and make part payment to the institute, according to its professor.

India to launch second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 by 2017

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 17:55

India is planning to launch the Chandrayaan-2, country`s second lunar exploration mission, in the next two to three years.

Indian delegation in US for 2-day space conference

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 21:51

Amid strain in ties between the two countries over diplomat`s arrest, a team of leading ISRO scientists are here to take part in the first ever ministerial meet on international space exploration sponsored by the US.

GSAT-14 orbit raised again

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 18:36

The Indian space agency Thursday successfully completed the orbit-raising activity of its communication satellite G-SAT14 for a third time since it was put in orbit Jan 5.

India`s human space flight programme is at the beginning: Radhakrishnan

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 22:25

Even as the country is rejoicing over the successful launch of the Mars Orbiter Mission in November, 2013, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said Wednesday that Indian human space flight programme is at the “beginning stage”.

GSLV D-5 launch: Karunanidhi lauds ISRO scientists

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 20:01

Lauding the Indian scientists behind the success of GSLV mission, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Monday said it was an achievement of which everyone should be proud of.

ISRO carries out first orbit raising manoeuvre of GSAT-14

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 15:53

The first orbit raising operation of GSAT-14 communication satellite was successfully carried out by ISRO on Monday, a day after it was shot into space in a milestone launch by GSLV-D5 rocket powered by the indigenous cryogenic engine.

President Pranab Mukherjee praises ISRO for successful GSLV-D5 launch

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 15:19

President Pranab Mukherjee has congratulated the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the successful launch of GSLV-D5 and injecting of GSAT-14 communication satellite into the intended orbit.