Apsara was Asia’s first research reactor, and it went critical on 4 August 1956 at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Bombay (now Read More
RV Gaveshani: India’s First Oceanographic Research Vessel (1975-1994) Commissioned: 1 December 1975Operated by: National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), GoaPurpose: Marine research, Read More
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with Persistent Systems, launched MANAV: The Human Read More
In the early 1940s, Dr. S.C. Seal of the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health in Calcutta (now Kolkata, Read More
Tissue Culture of Bamboo – Breakthrough by Indian Scientists (1990) A.F. Mascarenhas R.S. Nadgauda V.A. Parasharami Institution: National Chemical Laboratory (Read More
In 1985, P. Ramachandra Rao and G.V.S. Sastry from the National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur (now in Jharkhand) made a Read More
India’s space program had a humble yet historic beginning with the launch of a Nike-Apache sounding rocket on 21 November 1963 from Read More
ISRO’s U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) (formerly ISRO Satellite Centre – ISAC) in Bengaluru is the lead facility for satellite development Read More
The INSAT-2 series marked a major milestone for India, as these were the first fully indigenous communication satellites built by ISRO. They Read More
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) was the third developmental flight of PSLV and marked India’s first successful launch of an Read More
