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China’s BeiDou navigation satellite, rival to US GPS, starts global services
The positioning accuracy of the China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has reached 10 metres globally and five metres in the Asia-Pacific region
1 min read27 Dec 2018Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft points to new evidence of watery plumes over Europa
The revelations on Monday came after scientists revisited a puzzling reading from an instrument aboard Galileo, which in 1995 became the first spacecraft to enter the orbit of a gas giant planet
3 min read15 May 2018Nasa probe unveils stormy environment of Jupiter’s moon
Newly resurrected data from Nasa's Galileo spacecraft's first flyby of Ganymede is yielding new insights about the moon's environment
3 min read1 May 2018Why intuition is greater than debate
How do people get new ideas? We would never guess from the way they are transmitted
6 min read17 Mar 2018Breaking the illusion
Understanding the man, the writer, the revolutionary on a visit to Bertolt Brecht's house
4 min read9 Jan 2018Galileo Galilei, explorer of the skies
The man who revealed to us science's great truths, toppling, in the process, God and God's voice on Earth
4 min read13 Apr 2017Education is always political
Processes and practices of education are as political as the content. More political than processes are the aims of education
4 min read17 Mar 2016Europe speeds up launches for sat-nav system
The project, which will also provide crucial search-and-rescue services, has been plagued by delays, technical glitches and budgetary difficulties
1 min read25 Feb 2016Beyond Albert Einstein: 100 years of General Relativity
A 100 years on, scientists say that it is time to move beyond Einstein as they approach this challenge in different fields
4 min read27 Nov 2015Europe launches first Galileo satellites since orbit error
The Galileo satellites will be part of the EU's alternative to the US Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS
1 min read28 Mar 2015Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared