Monthly Archives: October 2016

India reclaims Champions Trophy

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India prevailed 3-2 over Pakistan to reclaim the Asian Champions Trophy hockey title. This was the first time the teams were meeting in the final of a continental tournament since India dethroned Pakistan as the Asian Games champion in Incheon, South Korea in 2014. India had won the inaugural edition of the Asian Champions Trophy, […]

Nobel Prize 2016

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was divided, one half awarded to David J. Thouless (Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA), the other half jointly to F. Duncan M. Haldane (Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) and […]

PSLV-C35 successfully launched

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ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 371 kg SCATSAT-1 Satellite along with seven co-passenger satellites  from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This is the thirty sixth consecutively successful mission of PSLV. The total weight of all the eight satellites carried on-board PSLV-C35 was 675 kg. PSLV-C35 is the first PSLV mission to […]