BENGALURU: New research led by a University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) planetary scientist, Shuai Li, has led to a discovery that may help explain the origin of the water ice previously discovered in the lunar permanently shaded regions. The researchers analysed remote sensing data collected by Chandrayaan-1’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument.University of Hawai‘i…
NEW DELHI: A soldier has gone missing amid the ongoing encounter between security forces and terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir’s Anantnag district.The encounter began on Wednesday evening after a combined force of the Army & Jammu & Kashmir police launched an operation to hunt down terrorists in the forests surrounding Gadool village of Anantnag’s Kokernag…
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar is likely to participate in both Quad and Russia and China-led SCO meetings on the margins of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly later this month, during what will be his first visit abroad after the G20 summit in Delhi.Jaishankar was scheduled to travel to Cuba later…
NEW DELHI: India will get its first spanking new C-295 tactical military airlift plane on Wednesday, with Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari now in Spain to receive the delivery, under the mega Rs 21,935 crore Tata-Airbus project for 56 such planes inked two years ago.The formal induction ceremony of the twin-turboprop…
NEW DELHI: Negotiators from G20 countries are heading towards a landing zone on the Ukraine conflict after talks that lasted well beyond midnight and a breakthrough is in sight over the contentious issues.After days of intense negotiations among sherpas circulated a revised paragraph over the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which is said to have found favour among…
NEW DELHI: The Navy may soon allow officers and sailors to wear specified traditional Indian attire in messes, wardrooms and institutes. Apart from operational issues and combat readiness, the ongoing naval commanders’ conference is considering a “national civil dress for messes and functions” as an option for its personnel.The options for the “national civil dress”…
BENGALURU: Isro on Tuesday released an anaglyph — a simple visualisation of an object or terrain in three dimensions (3D) from stereo or multi-view images — showing Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram on the lunar surface. Red and cyan glasses needed to view 3D effect: IsroThe anaglyph released by Isro was created using the navigation camera stereo…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said that National Conference leader Mohammad Akbar Lone, who had chanted pro-Pakistan slogan in the Jammu & Kashmir assembly in 2018, should file an affidavit within a day stating that he will “abide by the Constitution of India, accept the sovereignty of India and undertake that J&K is…
NEW DELHI: Chandrayaan-3‘s Vikram lander has soft-landed on Moon, once again, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said on Monday.The lander exceeded its mission objectives and successfully underwent a hop experiment, according to a post by the space agency on X (formerly Twitter).Describing the softlanding, Isro said, “On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself…
BENGALURU: Isro has achieved a new milestone, graduating from the S-band telemetry and command regime used for communication with its space modules to a high throughput X-band frequency for Aditya-L1, India’s first solar space observatory that completed the first of five Earth-bound manoeuvres at 11.40am Sunday.So far, Isro had used X-band only for payload data…
