Pallava Bagla

PM Modi, Vladimir Putin May Discuss Energy, Nuclear Issues At 'No-Agenda' Summit

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Monday May 21, 2018

PM Modi is flying in only for a day for this summit at the "invitation of Mr Putin" and it comes close on the heels of the unique "informal summit" held between India and China recently in Wuhan. This is a new way Mr Modi is handling foreign policy through a deeply personalised touch

Bangladesh To Launch Its First Communications Satellite On Thursday

World News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Wednesday May 9, 2018

Bangladesh is all set to join the space club when its first communications satellite is launched into space using the Falcon-9 rocket on Thursday from the Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.

Fire Breaks Out At ISRO High-Tech Facility At Ahmedabad

India News | Reported by Pallava Bagla, Edited by Debanish Achom | Thursday May 3, 2018

Thick smoke was seen emanating this afternoon from one of India's most important space laboratories in Ahmedabad. A fire broke out possibly due to a short circuit in a major facility of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) at Ahmedabad, called the Space Applications Centre (SAC), the city's fire department said

ISRO Recalls Mega Communications Satellite GSAT-11 From South America For Further Testing

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Wednesday April 25, 2018

In an unprecedented move, India's space agency ISRO is recalling its mega communications satellite GSAT-11 all the way from Kourou in South America where it was to be launched on May 25 using the giant Ariane-5 rocket.

ISRO's PSLV Successfully Launches IRNSS-1I Navigation Satellite From Sriharikota Days After Big Jolt: 10 Points

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Thursday April 12, 2018

While most of India slept, ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV blasted off into space from Sriharikota off the coast of Andhra Pradesh at 4:04 am today, carrying IRNSS-1I, the eighth satellite for India's homegrown global positioning system. The successful launch came just 14 days after the much larger Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehi...

Can't Compel Forces To Buy 'Made In India' Weapons, Says Defence Minister

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Wednesday April 11, 2018

At a prestigious exhibition that seeks to project India as one of the major defence manufacturing hubs, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the army was free to buy defence equipment from anywhere in the world.

2 Weeks After Mission That Failed, ISRO Readies Another Satellite Launch

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Wednesday April 11, 2018

The countdown to the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV on its 43rd flight has begun. The PSLV, which will launch tomorrow, will be carrying the satellite IRNSS 1I as part of the Indian constellation of navigation satellites.

As Chinese Space Lab Crashes To Earth, ISRO On Overnight Vigil

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Monday April 2, 2018

An 8-tonne Chinese space laboratory that will hurtle down to Earth late Sunday or early Monday morning (Indian time) is not likely to hit India, scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO believe.

In Major Setback, Contact With Satellite GSAT-6A Lost, Confirms ISRO

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Sunday April 1, 2018

The Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO has lost communications link with the powerful home-made GSAT-6A satellite, which was launched on Thursday, the space agency said in a statement today.

India's New Satellite To Boost Armed Forces, Help Moon Mission: 10 Facts

India News | Reported by Pallava Bagla, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Thursday March 29, 2018

India's very powerful, home-made communications satellite shot off into the blue sky on Thursday, leaving a smoky trail, on the back of the heavyweight GSLV rocket. The successful launch by the scientists of space agency ISRO drew praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 2066-ton satellite, built at a cost of Rs. 270 crore, will be able to sen...

ISRO Twin Satellites To Boost Communication For Security Establishment

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Thursday March 29, 2018

Countdown has started at Sriharikota for space agency ISRO's big launch of a home-made communications satellite. The GSAT-6A - the twin of the GSAT- 6 launched in 2015 - will lift off at 4.56 pm on Thursday, riding the heavyweight GSLV rocket. Around 400 scientists and engineers have been called in help with the launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Ce...

A Closer Look At "Saras", India's First Home-Made Passenger Plane

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Sunday March 25, 2018

Indian scientists have re-ignited the development of the country's first passenger and transport plane, Saras, a 19-seater turboprop aircraft that could help fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push toward making "people who wear hawai chappals" to take "hawai jahaz".

India's First Freshwater Floating Laboratory Patrols Manipur's Loktak Lake

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Wednesday March 21, 2018

Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in India's north-east, and it is now home to a floating laboratory that patrols its waters analysing pollution load to help conserve this biome

'Spend 100 Hours Annually With Students': PM Modi Urges Scientists In Imphal

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Saturday March 17, 2018

India has to be future ready was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's advice during an annual science event in Imphal. He urged scientists to take India to a new industrial revolution and "aim to be among the top 10 countries in the Global Innovation Index by 2030".

Did Stephen Hawking Diss Einstein For Vedas? Science Minister Says So

India News | Written by Pallava Bagla | Friday March 16, 2018

Harsh Vardhan, the genial science minister has quoted British physicist Stephen Hawking to back claims that Vedas are essentially are a theory of everything. The minister today said that the cosmologist, who passed away this week, had said the Vedas have a theory that is superior to Albert Einstein's equation.