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NASA LAUNCHES 4 SPACECRAFT TO SOLVE MAGNETIC MYSTERY

Mar 14, 2015 - 11:03 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

CAPE CANAVERAL (TIP): NASA launched four identical spacecraft Thursday on a billion-dollar mission to study the explosive give-and-take of the Earth and sun’s magnetic fields. The unmanned Atlas rocket — and NASA’s NASA — soared […]

SUN’S HELIOSPHERE DOMINATED BY TWO SOLAR JETS: NASA

Mar 7, 2015 - 9:17 am EST @theindpanorama 0

WASHINGTON (TIP): Contrary to earlier visualisations, the sun’s heliosphere is dominated by two giant jets of material shooting backwards over the north and south poles of the sun. The heliosphere is created by the solar […]

USING INDIA MADE INSTRUMENT, NASA DISCOVERS PLANET IN 4-STAR SYSTEM

Mar 7, 2015 - 4:39 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI (TIP): Using a new instrument developed with Indian collaboration, Nasa astronomers have discovered a planet 136 light-years away which is attached to four parent stars. They also discovered another planet in the care […]

Indian-American, Purnendu Dasgupta, wins prestigious chemistry award

Feb 21, 2015 - 10:46 am EST @theindpanorama 0

An Indian-American, who developed an environment friendly field analyser for checking toxic arsenic levels in water, has been awarded a prestigious award for his special contribution in the field of chemistry. Purnendu Dasgupta, a Jenkins […]

Flights cancelled at UK’s Heathrow airport due to storm

Oct 25, 2014 - 4:28 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

LONDON (TIP): Air traffic in Britain was sent into a tizzy with UK’s largest airport cancelling over 100 flights due to stormy weather. The tail end of Hurricane Gonzalo, which caused damage in Bermuda this […]

A scene from the movie 12 Years

Jul 4, 2014 - 10:29 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

supervision of voter registration in states and individual voting districts where such tests were being used. The act had an immediate and positive effect for African Americans. In 1965, Mississippi had the highest black voter […]

Business & Economics

The United States and India: Global Partners in the Global Economy

Apr 26, 2014 - 7:08 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Remarks made by Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, at Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL on April 25, 2014 Thank you, Dr. Singh, for your warm welcome. It is […]

Christmas Celebrated around the World

Dec 27, 2013 - 5:16 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW YORK (TIP): Christmas Eve was marked by festivities and preparations around the world today. The faithful prepared for midnight services in places both traditional and unusual. At the Vatican, worshipers filled Saint Peter’s Basilica […]

Mars mission a technological leap for India: US MEDIA

Nov 8, 2013 - 7:46 am EST @theindpanorama 0

WASHINGTON (TIP): India‘s successful launch of its Mars mission has been described by the mainstream American media as “technological leap” and “a symbolic coup” against China in this field. “If it succeeds, India’s Mars mission […]

United States

Scott Carpenter, 4th American in space, dies at 88

Oct 11, 2013 - 6:45 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

DENVER (TIP): Scott Carpenter, who in 1962 became the fourth US astronaut in space and second American to orbit the Earth, died on Thursday in Colorado at age 88 of complications from a stroke, his […]

Bhattacharya Offers Specialized STEM Training To 250 Needy Students

Jul 12, 2013 - 9:21 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NEW YORK (TIP): Over 250 under privileged students from lower strata of the society studying in eighth grade and above were inducted to undergo a one-year program to provide hands on experience on research in […]

NASA to support ISRO in India’s Mars mission

Jul 1, 2013 - 3:35 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

MUMBAI (TIP): The US would support India in its much-awaited Rs 450-crore Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) slated for lift off from Sriharikota in October-November 2013. “Nasa is providing the deep space navigation and tracking support […]

United States

Obama Administration Launches Competition For Three New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes

May 11, 2013 - 7:19 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

WASHINGTON, DC (TIP): The Obama Administration announced May 9 that it is launching competitions to create three new manufacturing innovation institutes with a Federal commitment of $200 million across five Federal agencies – Defense, Energy, […]

India

Forgotten mathematics legend Vashishtha Narayan Singh back in academia

Apr 19, 2013 - 8:04 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

PURNIA (TIP) : Legendary mathematician VashishthaNarayan Singh, who had been languishing in penury, has joined the BhupendraNarayanMandal University (BNMU) in Madhepura as a visiting professor. The 67-year-old Singh started work on April 17 after the […]

United States

Indian Air Force receives first Boeing C-17 for flight testing by the US Air Force

Jan 25, 2013 - 7:07 am EST @theindpanorama 0

LONG BEACH, CA (TIP): The Indian Air Force (IAF) has received the first Boeing C-17 strategic airlifter for flight testing by the US Air Force (USAF). The sleek piece of technological sophistication, the machine has […]

Europe

Nasa Photo Error Puts Mount Everest In India

Dec 14, 2012 - 6:11 am EST @theindpanorama 0

KATHMANDU (TIP): The world’s highest mountain should not be hard to spot but American space agency Nasa has admitted it mistook a summit in India for Mount Everest, which straddles the border of Nepal and […]

Business & Economics

Hedging Bets: Washington’s Pivot to India

Nov 16, 2012 - 7:12 am EST @theindpanorama 0

In November 2010, President Obama visited India for three days. In addition to meeting with top Indian business leaders and announcing deals between the two countries worth more than $10 billion, the president declared on […]

United States

Sunita Williams voted for US Prez polls by absentee

Nov 10, 2012 - 6:42 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW YORK (TIP): Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, currently in space and floating around in zero-gravity, voted for US Presidential polls by absentee ballot. Sunita, along with flight engineer Kevin Ford, exercised her franchise in July […]

Featured

6 spacewalks of 44 hrs, Sunita sets new record

Sep 7, 2012 - 6:49 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

MUMBAI (TIP): Indian- American astronaut Sunita Williams has set a world record for the maximum number of spacewalks by a woman astronaut. A Nasa announcement on September 6 said that 47-yearold Williams surpassed Peggy Whitson […]

Europe

Sunita Williams completes spacewalk outside ISS

Sep 4, 2012 - 5:00 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

MOSCOW (TIP): Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide completed almost a record long spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), reported NASA. NASA Flight Engineer Williams and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight […]

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