In the increasingly competitive, crowded and commercial domain of space, India must pull together the ‘Trimurti’ of its civilian, commercial and military heft for a robust SSA A colossal volume of water has flown in the past 23 years since India began celebrating its National Technology Day on May 11.
Today, April 29, 2021, the third-largest launch vehicle in the world, the Long March 5, decorated with a large CMS (China Manned Space) logo, carried the first and core module, Tianhe-1, of the Large Modular Chinese Space Station. China’s current accomplishment is the culmination of its aim, set in
Early this week, on 19th April 2021, the US space agency NASA achieved a rare feat, a first of its kind. NASA demonstrated a powered flight using a coaxial rotor drone, weighing merely 1.8 kilograms, from the surface of Mars. The INGENUITY, as the drone is called dotingly, was
The process of validating vaccines for public inoculation is methodical and tedious. The process is so quantitatively pragmatic that a decimal difference in the vaccine's efficacy matters a lot. There are many boxes to tick. The first box to check is vaccine efficacy; the second is the ease
Indian cinema is notably underrepresented in the science fiction genre. Finding credible movies from this genre in a romance-infested Indian cinema is as arduous as finding a needle in a haystack. However, whenever an advertisement for a movie that comes close to this genre appears, it naturally rouses curiosity. One
Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vision, which he expressed in India's Parliament's haloed halls in 2007, has finally been realised. The Security Quadrilateral Dialogue, QUAD, Finally saw the light of day, 14 years since its formal revelation. A significant success for
The Union Budget 2021-22, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, has been a distinctive one for scientific research and development (R&D) for many reasons. It is the first budget of an extremely critical decade for the Indian economy; it is the first one after the
The US’ sway on the international interest for human presence and operations on the Moon has been reiterated with the initial success of its Artemis Accords. Eight of the US’ strategic partners – Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom – have agreed to formally participate
India has become the fourth country – after the United States, Russia and China – to inch towards operationalisation of scramjet-based hypersonic vehicles. On 7th September 2020, India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully tested the air-breathing scramjet engine of the Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) mounted on a proven
India is responding to the Chinese aggression on the entire Indo-Tibetan landmass, spanning from the Wakhan Corridor to Arunachal Pradesh, through various means. Our democratic, social, and mainstream media have begun reporting on the strategic conflict extensively. The country has not procrastinated this time in realising that China will sooner
The Group of Seven (G7) countries have escalated their long-simmering techno-economic feud with China and its allies. They are prudently exercising strategies based on their suspicion about the latter’s deliberate miscommunication during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. They have persuaded their multi-national companies to bring back manufacturing