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October 5, 2023 12:06 PM

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju inspects High Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory at Mahabaleshwar situated in Maharashtra's Satara district

Union Minister for Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju has visited and inspected the High Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory at Mahabaleshwar situated in Satara district of Maharashtra. The laboratory is functioning as a branch of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune. The center mainly studies cloud movements related to monsoon rains. During this visit today, Mr. Rijiju inspected various departments of the center and learned about their functioning. Dr. G. Pandidurai, Project Director of th...

August 9, 2023 1:20 PM

Country develop manned scientific submersible MATSYA6000: Union Minister Kiren Rijiju

The country has developed a manned scientific submersible MATSYA6000. It can carry three humans for a period of 12 hours up to a depth of 60,000 meters in the ocean for deep sea mining and manned submersible. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju said that an integrated mining machine has been developed for exploratory mining of poly-metallic nodules from the sea bed and demonstration of locomotion trial was conducted at Central India Ocean. He fur...

July 26, 2023 4:47 PM

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju says India's weather forecasting systems are better than all systems worldwide

Minister for Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju has said that the role of India Meteorological Department IMD is becoming critical in view of climate change. Briefing media after undertaking a visit to Mausam Bhavan in New Delhi today, Mr Rijiju said, country's weather forecasting systems are better than all systems worldwide. He said, the IMD forecast in the past few years have been accurate. Lauding the IMD, the Minister said, it has done a tremendous job since 2014 and accurately tracked Cy...