Milestones in India’s Space Programme

1962

Indian  National  Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy  and work on establishing  Thumba Equatorial Rocket  Launching Station (TERLS) started.

1963

First sounding rocket launched from TERLS (November 21, 1963).

1965

Space Science & Technology Centre (SSTC) established in Thumba.

1967

Satellite Telecommunication Earth Station set up at Ahmedabad.

1968

TERLS dedicated to the United Nations (February [...]

Full Text Of The Speech Given by Barack Obama in Prague Outlining America’s New Nuclear Policy

On March 3ed the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said that the Obama would deliver “the European Speech of the Year” during his visit to Prague on April 4th.
I just listened to that speech and I must admit that Topolanek’s remark was very modest – in my opinion this speech by Obama will go down in [...]

Manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) for the 15th Lok Sabha General Elections

TO BUILD A PROSPEROUS,

POWERFUL NATION,

RECALL INDIA’S PAST

Indian civilisation is perhaps the most ancient and continuing civilisation of the world. India has a long history and has been recognised by others as a land of great wealth and even greater wisdom. But India has also experienced continued foreign attacks and alien rule for centuries and this [...]

Time Magazine’s Report on Mahatma Gandhi When It Chose Him Man of the Year in 1931

TIME Magazine

January 5, 1931

 
Curiously, it was in a jail that the year’s end found the little

half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all. It was exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence. It was in March that he marched to the [...]