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If a latest United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report is to be believed, India faces a turbulent water future as demand for India's water is expected to exceed all its sources of supply. So India's most serious challenge in the 21st century might not be war or hunger or poverty but the lack of fresh water. The report which is based on 12 papers commissioned by the bank from prominent Indian ... [full story]

A newly inducted Indian Army communication network ‘Mercury Thunder’could eventually enable the transmission of real time battlefield data to top commanders during hostilities and also enable a qualitative improvement in relief and rescue operations when natural disasters strike. The third phase of the Army Static Switched Communication Network (ASCON) that Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated in New Delhi Wednesday is that it would enable troops stationed at the remotest of places like the Siachen Glacier to directly communicate ... [full story]

Try and try again until u succeed seems to be ISRO's new mantra as Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), G Madhavan Nair has aid that its telecommunication satellite, which failed to take off earlier this month, would be re-launched next year.    ISRO scientists have been closely examining the causes behind the failed launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).    India's attempts to ... [full story]