The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is India’s national space agency. With its headquarters in Bangalore, the ISRO employs approximately 17,000 people. Its mandate is the development of technologies related to space and their applications towards India’s development. The ISRO is the only organisation in South Asia dedicated to space research and the launching of […]
Indian Mutiny also called Sepoy Mutiny (1857-58), widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India begun by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company. It began in Meerut and then spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow.To regard the rebellion merely as a sepoy mutiny is to underestimate the
The National Flag of India is in tricolour of deep saffron at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal propotions. The ratio of the width to the length of the flag is two is to three. In the centre of the white band, there is a wheel in
Indian fashion varies from one village to another village, from one city to another city. India’s fashion heritage is rich in tradition, vibrant in colours and prepossessing. Bold colours created by the inventive drapes of these textiles catches the imagination like no other contemporary clothing.Ancient Indian fashion garments generally used no stitching although Indians knew
India was a leader in innovation several centuries ago. Indeed, since the Indus Valley Civilisation of about 5000 years ago, innovation has been a part of the Indian culture and the basis of its civilization. Our innovations were diverse and pioneering. They included remarkable town planning, the use of standardized burnt bricks for dwelling houses
India is not being obstructionist by not agreeing to sign the CTBT as is presumed by some Western powers. The unfortunate part is that they simply refuses to appreciate India’s legitimate security concerns. The United States and the other nuclear powers seem to have decided to maintain smaller but more effective and, whose, more ‘usable’
Globalisation is the new buzzword that has come to dominate the world since the nineties of the last century with the end of the cold war and the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the global trend towards the rolling ball. The frontiers of the state with increased reliance on the market economy and
Idi Amin (May 17 1928 – August 16 2003) was an army officer and President of Uganda (1971 to 1979) whose regime was notorious for its brutality.Amin’s tenure witnessed much sectarian violence, including the persecution of the Acholi, Lango, and other tribes in Uganda. Reports of the torture and murder of 300,000 to 500,000 Ugandans
Henry Ford, the son of farmer, was born in Greenfield, Michigan on 30th July, 1863. He left school at 15 to work on his father’s farm but in 1879 he moved to Detroit where he became an apprentice in a machine shop. To help him survive on his low wages he spent his evenings repairing
A poor environment is directly responsible for around 25 per cent of all preventable ill health in the world today, and two-thirds of those affected are children.They fall sick for two main reasons. The first is a lack of essential environmental resources—chief among them sufficient and clean water, food, shelter, fuel, and air.People also become
The world’s worst recorded food disaster happened in 1943 in British-ruled India. Known as the Bengal Famine, an estimated four million people died of hunger that year alone in eastern India (that included today’s Bangladesh). The initial theory put forward to ‘explain’ that catastrophe was that there as an acute shortfall in food production in
The warming of the Earth has been the subject of intense debate and concern for many scientists, policy-makers, and citizens.Surface temperature measurements recorded daily at hundreds of locations for more than 100 years indicate that the Earth’s surface has warmed by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century. This warming has been particularly strong
Genghis Khan (more properly known as Changez Khan), is one of history’s more charismatic and dynamic leaders. During his lifetime, he conquered more territory than any other conqueror, and his successors established the largest contiguous empire in history. Even today his legacy continues in Asia, for without Genghis Khan there would not be a Mongolia.Born
Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation which represents information as variations in the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave. (Contrast this with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant.)In analog applications, the carrier frequency is varied in direct proportion to changes in the amplitude
Florence Nightingale is best remembered for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War and her contribution towards the reform of the sanitary conditions in military field hospitals. However, what is less well known about this amazing woman is her love of mathematics, especially statistics, and how this love played an important part in