Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the “green revolution” who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95.

The Nobel committee honored Borlaug in 1970 for his contributions to high-yield crop varieties and bringing other agricultural innovations to the developing world. Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century and saving perhaps 1 billion lives.

Thanks to the green revolution, world food production more than doubled between 1960 and 1990. In Pakistan and India, two of the nations that benefited most from the new crop varieties, grain yields more than quadrupled over the period.

The NW India is under water stress from years. Everyone knows that ground water is being used at an alarming rate. But there is no concrete data about what is the rate of decline of ground water level. NASA with it's GRACE satellite comes up with some DATA.. please Read on...... 

India will soon design and develop its heaviest communications satellite GSAT-11 to provide advanced telecom services from 2011-12, a senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NASA performed a unique joint experiment on Aug. 21, 2009 that could yield additional information on the possibility of existence of ice in a permanently shadowed crater near the North pole of the moon.

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India plans to power some parts of the Chandrayaan II--its next unmanned mission to the moon-- with nuclear energy and the feasibility studies are being carried out by ISRO and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

The sunlight that strikes the surface of the Earth in a day is enough to meet all of humanity’s energy needs for a year, yet only a fraction of one percent of World's electricity comes from the sun. So, in the quest for a low-carbon future, how do we transform this minor actor into a major force? .....