Chennai, Mar 22 (UNI) The BJP on Saturday staged black flag protests across the State against the delimitation meeting convened by the ruling DMK by inviting Chief Minister and represenatives from non-BJP ruled states. BJP Tamil Nadu Unit President K Annamalai, clad in black shirt, along with party cadres, staged the protest in front of…
Chennai, Mar 22 (UNI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin on Saturday said the proposed delimitation exercise based on current population was BJP’s ploy to implement it ulterior motives and it should not be acceptable. In his address at the first Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting in which Chief Ministers of…
Chennai, Mar 18 (UNI) Millions, nay crores of prayers from across the world, including India, were answered as India born NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams returned safely from International Space Station (SS) off Florida coast using four parachutes after being held up for nine months on Wednesday morning. The splashdown took place at the precise time…
Chennai, Mar 16 (UNI) Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin on Sunday justified replacing the Indian Rupee symbol with Tamil letter “Ru’ in the State Budget logo and said it was done to show how Tamil Nadu was committed to its Language policy. But those who did not like Tamil has made it…
Chennai, Mar 16 (UNI) The Cryogenic Upper Stage engine of ISRO’s LVM3 launch vehicle was flagged off to SHAR Range, Sriharikota, on Saturday for the upcoming launch of US satellite Blue Bird-2 that would enable individuals to make calls using smartphones from space. In an update on Sunday, ISRO said Chairman Dr V Narayanan flagged…
Chennai, Mar 16 (UNI) In a first of its kind in India in the area of high reliability microprocessors and onboard computers for navigation, guidance and control of launch vehicles, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) Chandigarh handed over the the first production lots of the 32-bit microprocessors for space…
Chennai, Mar 15 (UNI) In a major finding, scientists from Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, analysing radio signals from India’s Chandrayaan-2 (CH-2) Orbiter – which is in good health and providing data – have revealed that the Moon’s ionosphere exhibits unexpectedly high electron densities when it enters the Earth’s geomagnetic tail. This finding sheds new light…
Chennai, Mar 15 (UNI) India’s Chandrayaan-3 ChaSTE payload onboard Vikram Lander has taken the credit for the first-ever in-situ measurement of the temperature of the Moon’s surface, down to a depth of ten centimetres, at the Southern higher latitude. So far, the temperature measurements from the subsurface of the Moon by the Apollo 15 and…
Chennai, Mar 8 (UNI) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully carried out multiple restarts of launch vehicle stages ignition trial using Spark Torch Igniter with GSLV’s Cryogenic Upper stage. In an update, ISRO said it is developing Lox-Methane engine and stages for the Next Generation Launch Vehicle, which uses a reusable booster stage…
Chennai, Mar 7 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the BJP-led Government at the Centre headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was strongly committed to promote all the regional languages, including Tamil. He was addressing the 56th Raising Day event of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Regional Training Centre, which he…
