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ISRO nabs impostor woman scientist

September 24, 2012 by (FINN) Frontier India News Network Leave a Comment

Bangalore: The India Space research organisation (ISRO) on Sunday nabbed a women, Duela M. Sam, aged 40 years, posing as a scientist with fake id card. Police sources say that she is from Ahmadabad and married to a school teacher Alex from Kerala. The woman had checked in the ISRO guest house two days earlier. [...]

Filed Under: Law and Order, Space Tagged With: Central Industrial Security Force, CISF, Duela M. Sam, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO

Indo-French climate monitoring satellite Megha-Tropiques in space

October 12, 2011 by P. Chacko Joseph Leave a Comment

Indian Space Research organisation’s (ISRO) workhorse the PSLV C-18 today lobbed the 1000 kg Indo French satellite the Megha Trophiques, two small sats and one nanosat into the space. PSLV-C18 injected Megha-Tropiques satellite into an orbit of 867 km altitude at an inclination of 20 deg with respect to equator. This is the 20th Polar [...]

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Oloitiptip, Cherono win TCS World 10K, Suresh Patel, Sudha Singh Indian champs

Bangalore: Kenyans Alex Oloitiptip and Gladys Cherono ran brave races in contrasting weather conditions to win the overall men’s and women’s titles of the Tata Consultancy World 10K Bangalore 2013, the World’s Premier 10K Run, which concluded at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium, here, on Sunday. The 23-year-old Oloitiptip, not among the pre-race favourites, but with [...]

Nirbhaya effect : Chhattisgarh women to learn self defence from Bollywood trainer

Raipur: The horrific Delhi Gang Rape case has not been forgotten as various states and organisations are gearing up for women empowerment. Spearheaded by Bollywood martial arts trainer Chitah Yajnesh Shetty, women in 12 districts of Chhattisgarh will begin learning self defence programs from May and it will continue through-out June 2013. Yajnesh’s outfit Chitah [...]

MRPL increases throughput by 14.40 MMT in FY-13

Mangalore: The Mangalore Refinery And Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), a subsidiary of Oil And National Gas Corporation (ONGC), a Category I Mini Ratna announced its Audited Results. MRPL recorded a higher throughput and distillate yield but records lower GRM due to lower complexity operation. MRPL during the year increased its throughput with the availability of its [...]

Second suspect in the rape of a 5-year old Delhi girl arrested in Bihar

Delhi: A second suspect has been arrested in connection of brutal rape and attempted strangulation of a 5 year old girl in the city (read Rapist of Delhi 5 yr old arrested, 3 cops suspended). Pradeep Kumar was arrested from Lakhi Sarai district of Bihar state, in a coordinated effort with Bihar Police. Delhi Police [...]