The Indian rupee will soon have a unique symbol — a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' — joining elite currencies like the US dollar, euro, British pound and Japanese yen in having a distinct identity. 

PSLV proved it again .The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C-15 carrying remote sensing Cartosat-2B along with four satellites blasted off from the spaceport near here on Monday morning...  

PSLV-C15 is the 17th flight of  ISRO's versatile Polar Satellite launch vehicle, PSLV. In this PSLV will place the 694 kg CARTOSAT-2B and four auxiliary payloads in a 630 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) . ISRO recently announced that the schedule launch of PSLV-C15 will be on 12th july. ..

Agni-II, the intermediate range surface-to-surface ballistic missile, one of the key weapon systems of India's nuclear deterrence programme, was successfully flight-tested from the Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast on Monday.

India got its own stealth warship on Thursday when the indigenously manufactured INS Shivalik was commissioned into the Navy by Defence Minister AK Antony in Mumbai on Thursday.

Senior Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists, who met at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram to examine the reasons for the failure of the GSLV-D3 mission with indigenous cryogenic upper stage, on Sunday ascertained that contrary to initial reports the cryogenic stage had doubtless ignited in the vacuum of the space... 

India will soon launch an advanced communications satellite, put into orbit for the first time by a cryogenic engine developed by its own scientists.GSLV-D3 carrying GSAT-4 satellite is scheduled for launch on April 15, 2010 

Cryogenic engines are rocket motors designed for fuels that have to be held at very low temperatures to be liquid. They would otherwise be gas. Officials say that only five countries in the world have this technology...