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…
Chennai, Mar 7 (UNI) The Madras High Court has directed the Union Government to restore the website of popular Tamil magazine ‘Ananda Vikatan’, which was blocked following publication of a controversial cartoon on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent US visit. While directing the I and B Ministry to restore the blocked website, the…
Chennai, Mar 7 (UNI) The Cyber Crime Wing of the Tamil Nadu police has issued a public alert on Ads to prevent gullible people from falling prey to it as Artificial Intelligence and IoT has been transforming the life could be highly misleading in many ways. A release from Cyber Crime Wing Headquarters here said…
Chennai, Mar 2 (UNI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin announced a solatium of Rs five lakh to the families of four people who died of electrocution while undertaking decorative works for a Church festival at Killiyur in Kanniyakumari district. The incident occurred on Saturday evening when the victims were repositioning an iron ladder…
Chennai, Feb 26 (UNI) Senior BJP Leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended the Mahashivarathri celebrations at the Isha Yoga Centre in Coimbatore on Wednesday evening. The celebrations began at 1800 hrs this evening and will continue till 0600 hrs on Thursday morning. Mr Shah reached the Isha Yoga Centre, located at Velliangiri foothills,…
Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu) Feb 3 (UNI) The Sri Lankan Navy on Monday apprehended 10 Indian fishermen and seized their mechanised fishing trawler allegedly for straying into the Sri Lankan territorial waters and indulging in illegal fishing activities. Fisheries department officials said here that the fishermen, hailing from Thangachimadam fishing hamlet in Rameswaram, were apprehended by…
Chennai, Feb 1 (UNI) The Atommash plant (Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering division) has shipped a VVER-1000 reactor vessel for delivery for Unit 6 of the Russian-design Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), which was under construction in southern Tamil Nadu, India. The equipment weighing 320 tons is being transported to the construction site. Before its maritime journey,…
