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Mysore to lose iconic airshow

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The famous Mysore Dasara will lose one of its major attractions — the Dasara Air Show — with the defence ministry refusing to hold air shows anywhere in India during festivities and private engagement

DRDO chief to visit Tipu’s ‘rocket court’ on August 14

Finally, there is some hope for the historic ‘rocket court’ in Srirangapatna from where the ‘Tiger of Mysore’, Tipu Sultan, designed and fired the world’s first war rocket nearly 250 years ago catchin

Greens oppose marriage hall atop hill

Development at the cost of environmental degradation? This is the question conservationists are asking public representatives and bureaucrats to ponder, after plans were mooted to construct a marriage

Isro plans launchpad-3 for India’s space odyssey

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is reportedly trying its best to secure sanction of the Union government to set up a third launching pad for rockets and space craft at spaceport, Sriharikota

History’s rocket man Tipu Sultan gets his due

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Tipu Sultan, the celebrated Tiger of Mysore, made critical innovations in the Mysorean rockets that his father Hyder Ali first used as weapons of war, and built a 6,000-strong artillery brigade in the

Shettar to visit ‘jinxed’ town after session?

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Tired of being ignored because of the tag Chamarajnagar has earned of being jinxed, religious heads, political leaders, pro-people organizations and farmers came together on Monday to take out a pad

History’s rocket man Tipu gets his due

Tiger of Mysore Tipu Sultan designed, manufactured and fired the world’s first war-use rocket in the late 1790s. After decades of neglect, the birthplace of rocket and missile technology – Rocket Cour

Scientists salute Sunita’s feat

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The 39th scientific assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR-2012), the world’s largest interdisciplinary forum on space science that is currently under way at the Infosys campus here, has

Legislators raise banner of revolt

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Raising a banner of revolt against leaders of the ruling party, Kundapura legislator Haladi Sreenivasa Shetty resigned from the Legislative Assembly on Friday.

Mr. Shetty, who turned emotional and le

Notorious tiger poachers held in BRT

In a major breakthrough against poaching of tigers, a notorious Haryana-based gang of six, which was part of an international network and wanted in several cases of wildlife crimes across the country,

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.