The MV Andamans, a ship with a deadweight tonnage (DWT) of 2,420, was built in 1957 at the Hindustan Shipyard in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Read More
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The Scientific Instrument Co. Ltd, based in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh, manufactured a twin-engine, air-cushioned hovercraft—one of India’s earliest Read More
A superfast catamaran service between Bombay (now Mumbai) and Goa became operational. This twin-hull luxury catamaran, imported from a Norwegian company by Read More
India’s First Roll-On/Roll-Off (Ro-Ro) Ferry Service India’s first-ever roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) ferry service was launched on 22 October 2017 between Ghogha Read More
The National Ship Design and Research Centre (NSDRC), located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, is a premier maritime research institute in India. It Read More
The Scindia Steam Navigation Company was established on 27 March 1919 by four visionary Indian industrialists: This company was a milestone in India’s Read More
The concepts of arithmetic and geometric progressions (series) appear in Vedic texts as early as 2000 BCE. These sequences were used in various Read More
The Śulba Sūtras (c. 800–500 BCE) are the earliest known texts in Indian mathematics related to geometry, written during the Vedic period. Read More
The Śulba Sūtras (800–500 BCE), a set of ancient Indian texts on geometry, contain one of the earliest known references to irrational Read More
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“Apastamba’s Practical Geometry: Foundations of Ancient Indian Architectural Mathematics”
Āpastamba and the Foundations of Practical Geometry in Ancient India In the first millennium BCE, Āpastamba, an Indian scholar and Vedic Read More
