Posts Tagged ‘ India ’

India’s 1st Student Made Satellite

March 25, 2009
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Coming April, India’s student community will get a big morale booster when the country’s first student-made satellite will ride into space on the PSLV, (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) along with ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organization) Risat Satellite. The “Anusat” has been designed by 37 aerospace engineering students with the help of 10 teachers from...

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Editor of a local newspaper shot dead in Assam

March 25, 2009
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Unidentified gunmen have shot dead the editor of a newspaper in India’s north-eastern Assam state, police say. Anil Mazumder, editor of the Assamese daily Aji (Today), was attacked by armed men when he was returning home in the state capital, Guwahati, they said. The attackers who came in a car shot at Mr Mazumder...

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