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JUST past midnight of November 30, India’s Mars Orbiter or Mangalyaan left earth’s gravitational pull for its ten-month long journey to Mars. This happened after a series of orbit raising manoeuvres undertaken by ISRO in … Read moreThe Mars Mission Moves out of Earth’s Gravity

India’s Mars Mission started off in spectacular fashion on 5th November with a text book launch and precise positioning of the Mangalyaan (literally craft to Mars) spacecraft in its planned orbit around Earth. The successful … Read moreIndia’s Mission to Mars

THE longest-duration total solar eclipse of this century occurred on July 22, 2009 with the path of totality passing through many parts of India. While many other cosmic events such as full moon, new moon … Read moreMidnight at Dawn

  Twelfth Congress of the All India Peoples Science Network   ON December 20, 2008, the streets of Ranchi reverberated to the sounds of Jan Vigyan Zindabad, AIPSN Zindabad as over 2,500 activists of the … Read moreTwelfth Congress of the All India Peoples Science Network

The annual mela that is the Indian Science Congress took a turn for the worse this year. Vajpayee’s inauguration of the Congress on 3rd January was coupled with celebration of the militarisation of science. The … Read moreIndian Science Congress : Killing the Dreams of the Young