India’s Defence authorities to use LEO satellites for communication: ISpA

A satellite model is placed on a picture of Earth in this illustration taken | Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic India’s defence authorities will use Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations for communication and meteorological services in the future, Lt Gen Anil Kumar Bhatt (retd), Director General of the India Space Association, told businessline. “Today, we ues GEO-satellites…

India Launches Bharat Forecast System: India’s leap forward in weather prediction and disaster management

India on Monday launched the indigenously developed high-resolution Bharat Forecast System (BFS) to boost tracking of monsoons and improve disaster management. The Bharat Forecast System was launched by India Meteorological Department (IMD) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES). It has the potential to forecast with a 6 km resolution — the highest in the…

Monsoon leaves west coast, South Peninsula surcharged with moisture

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts sees very heavy rain along the west coast, adjoining interior peninsula and North-East India as the monsoon fires away during the course of this week. | Photo Credit: www.meteologix.com/in A rain-driving low-pressure area, remnant from erstwhile depression, persisted on Monday over Marathwada along with a few juvenile cohorts over…

Austria’s ex-chancellor wins appeal against perjury conviction

Austria’s former chancellor Sebastian Kurz has won his appeal against a conviction for giving false testimony to a parliamentary committee. The court’s ruling overturns last year’s judgement and eight-month suspended prison sentence for the former political star. Once hailed a wunderkind of Europe’s conservatives, the 38-year-old resigned as chancellor in 2021 and quit politics amid…