Bharat Rakshak

On NRE a/c all interest gained in taxable in the US. IN fact Ciitbank reports the amout in 1099 (?) form like all local US banks do. Any interest income from NRE is not taxable in india. I do not hold an NRO a/c. Isnt it the same for NRO too for tax purposes ? No taxes to be paid in India but any in...

India builds up research base with two institutes [NEW DELHI] The Indian government is to create two new research institutes and establish an autonomous funding agency under the aegis of the prime minister, Manmohan Singh. The chairman of the prime minister's science advisory council, C. N. R. Rao, ...

Yes he is Humayun Kabir's son and is/was George Fernandez's BIL.

Here is a link from Current Science, somehow I missed this one.
http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/oct252004/1149.pdf

Last month's Physics Today issue (subscription only) has an obituary for Prof. Prabahan Kabir who has made important contributions in nuclear physics and was Hans Bethe's student at Cornell. I happen to have had the chance to sit in a few of his classes. He was a difficult personality and a little r...

Bandwidth problems may not be insurmountable. ADEOS-II which went dead, used direct download as well as via a GSO parked comm sat to download data. For a 30 channel sat in SSO orbit roughly 14 orbits per day at 100 min for each orbit, downloading at 5 minute intervals chunks of data (~500MB) mounts ...

can it detect underground structures like a ground penetrating radar on the surface can ? by structures I mean say a C3I center buried 10m below a airbase or munitions dump deep inside a mountain. Are there really any radiation that can penetrate 10m below ground . Dont think so. Most of the Hypers...

There really isnt much of a difference between multi-spectral and hyper-spectral sensors in terms of physics. The current crop of top of the line EOS (earth observing sensors) have 30 odd band info per pixel at 10nm resolution in bandwidth. Hyperspectral imagers will sample perhaps more of the atmos...

India plans to remain in the forefront of radio astronomy. It is part of the square kilometer array design group taking radio astronomy to a level at 100 times done currently. http://www.skatelescope.org/documents/SKA_IND_CONCEPT_PreloadedParabolic_27062002.pdf http://www.skatelescope.org/PDF/Indian...

It should have been reported as Million Electron volt (MeV)

1) I have been reading BR since the summer of '97 and still remember mentioning it to other Indian friends. That's a very long time and am quite embarassed to admit that i have so far posted only a handful. Too much to read and catch up with and no spare time :roll: 3) Spouse was introduced to BR an...

Since St. Thomas days in Malabar and before the ancient city of Muziris/Cranganore/Kodungallur with important trade links to the west and china.

http://www.indianchristianity.com/html/Books.htm#CRANGANORE: PAST AND PRESENT

Originally posted by Rudra Singha: what was the theme of ICONS 2002 ? is there a central page listing all the technology conferences held in India eg comdex, HIPC etc ? DRDO Conf organised by NPOL Kochi...general theme was sonars...there were sessions on remote-sensing, oceanography, naval operatio...

Originally posted by Rudra Singha:

then I click on 'people' link on bottom and find
*cough* dr. paulraj et al among founders.

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That explains his talk at ICONS 2002 at Kochi...too bad had to miss it.