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BANGALORE: If you thought the white surveillance flight balloon at Aero India 2011 was huge, there's something bigger on the cards. The initial success of 'Akashdeep' has shown the way for a bigger and better indigenous 'Nakshatra'. This new aerostat system will be built to track a 450km radius...

The EDK, developed by the DRDO’s High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) in Pune, comes packed in a box the size of a vanity case which contains four reagents capable of detecting explosives even in trace quantities. It can be used to identify a range of explosives such as PETN...

"What the hell is going on in this country?' : SC New Delhi: Hard on the heels of a withering attack on the conduct of the Union government in the appointment of PJ Thomas as Chief Vigilance Commissioner, another bench of the apex court grilled the government over the progress made in the...

Missile for missile PMO BEAT By R. Prasannan Manmohan Singh tried to be even-handed while giving away the National Technology Day awards to DRDO scientists. He commended their work on missiles, tanks, aircraft, electronic warfare, radar and communication systems. Then he went ballistic...

The Indian Railways has once again chosen an expensive foreign technology (TPWS) over India’s own patented ACD system. The Indian Railways recently decided to adopt the European technology Train Protection Warning System (TPWS) on busy rail routes to avoid collisions. However, the...