Two prominent space scientists of the country ascribed the failure of Saturday’s Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle mission to the carelessness of the Isro staff.
“To me, it looks like a ground-level mechanical failure which is very basic in nature,” said former head of the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre of the Isro, D. Sasi Kumar

India is set to have the world’s first climate army, an exclusive force of nearly half a million “soldiers” trained to fight global warming. A unique strategy to set up this climate army is being launched from Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu on Sunday.

Eighty-two-year-old Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, a Chennai-born astrophysicist and son of Sir C.V. Raman, will soon set sail in a yacht in a bold attempt to circumnavigate the world solo.

Could the Mayan doomsday prophets have been on to something after all?

Al Qaeda in Iraq’s new leader warned Shia on Friday that “dark days soaked with blood” lie ahead and that a new campaign of attacks was under way.

India became the first country in the world to develop a technology for increasing the life of nuclear reactors. A giant thermal baffle weighing 70 tonnes, designed and built by the engineers of Indira Gandhi Centre For