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Japan's Maglev train makes new world speed record

Japan’s state-of-the-art Magnetic levitation technology (Maglev) train has clocked a new world speed record smashing through the 603 kilometre per hour mark in a test run near Mount...

April 22, 2015

Susanta Lahiri awarded Hevesy Medal Award 2015

Professor Susanta Lahiri was awarded prestigious the Hevesy Medal Award 2015. The award was presented to him for his outstanding contributions in heavy ion induced radioisotope production, converter...

April 16, 2015

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovers useful Nitrogen on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover for first time has found evidence of nitrogen in the form of nitrate in aeolian deposits and in two mudstone deposits on Mars. It was...

March 27, 2015

India's first Polar Remotely Operated Vehicle operationalised in North Antarctica

India’s first Polar Remotely Operated Vehicle (PROVe) was successfully operationalised for research in North Antarctica by National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT). PROVe was operationalised, after it had...

March 26, 2015

Solar Impulse 2- world's first solar-powered aircraft on global journey lands in Ahmedabad

World’s first solar powered aircraft on global journey- Solar Impulse 2 successfully landed in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The aircraft was piloted by Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg...

March 10, 2015

First Assamese dictionary for Science and Technology terms released

First Assamese dictionary for Science and Technology terms was released recently. It was released by Dr Alok Kumar Buragohain, Vice Chancellor of Dibrugarh University. Key facts This dictionary...

February 28, 2015

World’s first 3D-printed jet engine developed in Australia

Researchers from Australia’s Monash University have created world’s first 3 Dimensional (3D) printed jet engine. The first of kind 3D printed engine was developed by team of researchers...

February 26, 2015

Hyderabad to host World IT Congress in 2018

Hyderabad, capital of Telangana State is going to host prestigious World Information Technology Congress (WITC) in 2018. Hyderabad- a global IT hub was preferred by organisers of this...

December 27, 2014

Tourism Ministry launches e-ticketing facility for Taj Mahal, Humayun’s Tomb

Tourism Ministry has launched e-ticketing facility for the two Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)-maintained monuments Taj Mahal in Agra and Humayun’s Tomb in New Delhi. In this regard...

December 27, 2014

UK tests First hybrid-electric airplane

United Kingdom (UK) has successfully tested first hybrid-electric airplane driven by parallel hybrid electric engine. The airplane was flight tested by researchers from the University of Cambridge, in...

December 26, 2014

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