Harinath was also the operations director for Risat-1 which is India’s first radar imaging satellite.

Cinemagoers in India still remain driven by male star power. A fifty something Kumar or Khan enjoys bigger stardom and dedicated fan following than a forty-year-old Balan or thirty-one-year-old Pannu.

In three decades of Minnie Vaid’s journalistic work, be it print, television or books, writing about injustice has always been a constant. Vaid, who had earlier written books about firebrand activists and personalities like Irom Sharmila and Binayak Sen and also about the people’s protest against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, has recently published her book Those […]

They are shattering the glass ceiling in science and tech. They are driven, committed and convinced that the future is female. Meet the women who took India’s mission to mars in a most successful way. When in 2014 the Mars Orbiter Mission was successful and India became the first country to achieve this feat in […]

Say hello to your new note – the 2000 rupee tender. The government’s move to junk Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes has everyone refreshing their wallets with the new magenta note aside of the old 100 rupee currency. The new 2,000 rupee note, said the Reserve Bank of India in a statement, will include several […]

Commenting on the gender ratio at ISRO, Karidhal said that 20 percent of its scientists are women.