Pneumonia and Diarrhea kills 4.36 lakh children annually in India
New Delhi (ISJ): Pneumonia and Diarrhea kills 4,36,000 children under the age of five in India annually, according to latest estimates of child mortality released...
Month : April 2014
NASA launches MAVEN; joins India’s Mangalyaan to study change at Mars
Washington (ISJ): NASA on Monday (Nov. 18) launched its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft to study how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere...
Longer you walk, lower the risk of stroke
Dallas, USA (ISJ): Walking one to two hours a day reduces risk of stroke among older men, says a study conducted by American Heart Association....
ISRO re-assembles GSLV D-5 for a December launch
Chennai (ISJ): With the successful launch of the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now working for the launch of...
French man gets world?s first artificial heart
Paris (ISJ): French doctors have performed the first-ever implantation of an artificial heart on a person suffering from end-stage heart failure. The implantation was done...
India launches low-cost device to detect cervical cancer
New Delhi (ISJ): India launched a low-cost indigenous device for early detection of cervical cancer. AV Magnivisualizer, developed by Noida-based state-run Institute of Cytology and...
India’s Mars Orbiter placed in Mars Trajectory
Bangaore (ISJ): Indian space scientists successfully hurled Mangalyaan or the Mars Orbiter spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit to the Red Planet’s transfer trajectory, taking them...
Mars Orbiter reaches the farthest distance in space by any Indian spacecraft
Bangalore (ISJ): India’s Mangalyaan or Mars Orbiter has created yet another record by reaching the farthest distance in the space by any Indian spacecraft. The...
India’s home-made aircraft carrier cleared for induction by its Air Force
Bangalore (ISJ): India’s indigenously developed light combat aircraft ‘Tejas’ was finally cleared for induction in the Indian Air Force, IAF. Equipped with a quadruplex digital...
Iran sends monkey to space
Tehran (ISJ): Iran claims to have send a monkey to space on Saturday (Dec. 14). The monkey, Fargam meaning auspicious in Farsi, was launched on...