This underwater fault near Ecuador has baffled scientists for decades. They just cracked itScientists have identified natural "brakes" within the Gofar transform fault, located deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean. These "barrie...
17 May, 2026, 01.09 AM IST
Indian Navy gets three GRSE-built ships, including frigate and ASW craftDefence PSU Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) has delivered three advanced frontline platforms to the Indian Navy: the gui...
30 Mar, 2026, 08.22 PM IST
INS Sagardhwani flags off for Sagar Maitri VIndia's oceanographic research vessel INS Sagardhwani has begun its fifth Sagar Maitri mission. This initiative fosters scientific cooperat...
18 Jan, 2026, 03.03 PM IST
GRSE delivers survey vessel 'Ikshak' to Indian NavyGarden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) delivered 'Ikshak', the third of four large survey vessels, to the Indian Navy in Kolkata. T...
14 Aug, 2025, 05.50 PM IST
India bats for designing regional ocean observations to better understand deep ecosystemsIndia, at the 2024 Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona, emphasised the need for tailored ocean observations to predict climate impacts. It...
21 Apr, 2024, 02.34 PM IST
DRDO chairman Samir Kamat inaugurates Indian Navy's 'SPACE' in KeralaA state-of-the-art Submersible Platform for Acoustic Characterization and Evaluation (SPACE) inaugurated in Kerala's Idukki for Indian Navy...
17 Apr, 2024, 08.48 PM IST
UFOs along African coastline? Weather prediction system shows bizarre footage of 80-foot wavesAccording to recent reports, African weather systems have blamed prediction data involving UFOs and 80-foot waves on software model 'error'
15 Apr, 2024, 09.05 PM IST
ISRO gears up for launch of meteorological satellite, flags it off to Sriharikota spaceportThe satellite is a user-funded project with the Ministry of Earth Science (MoES), configured around ISRO's I-2k bus platform with a lift-of...
27 Jan, 2024, 09.17 PM IST
China media warns against taking China's Indian Ocean research as threatsA U.S. think tank's report on China's military use of scientific research in the Indian Ocean sparks Chinese state media's warning, claimin...
12 Jan, 2024, 01.38 PM IST
Marine scientists unearth genome secrets of Indian oil sardineThe CMFRI statement said the researchers have also identified the genes involved in the biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) ...
07 Sep, 2023, 02.03 PM IST
India on alert as ‘China deploys dozen underwater drones in IOR’International business magazine Forbes on Sunday reported China had deployed a dozen “Sea Wing” underwater drones from specialist research ...
24 Mar, 2020, 10.12 AM IST
Marine acoustic research ship on a mission leaves KochiThe ship belongs to the Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) and is operated by the Indian navy.
19 Jul, 2019, 10.16 AM IST
Pentagon asks China to 'immediately' release its naval vesselSenator Cardin said China's seizure of an US Navy research submersible in international waters is a brazen violation of international law.
17 Dec, 2016, 01.43 AM IST
Global ocean warming has doubled in recent decades: StudyChanges in ocean heat storage are important because the ocean absorbs more than 90 per cent of the Earth's excess heat increase associated ...
20 Jan, 2016, 12.27 PM IST
Internet at bottom of ocean to detect tsunamisA deep-sea internet network will improve the detection of tsunamis, monitor pollution, and conduct surveillance.
15 Oct, 2013, 03.41 PM IST
- INS Makar commissioned into the Indian Navy
Flag Officer Commanding in Chief, Western Naval Command, Vice Admiral Shekar Sinha, today commissioned INS Makar into the Indian Navy at Ka...
21 Sep, 2012, 08.36 PM IST
- Many challenges to anti-submarine warfare
Despite technological advancements, waters of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal offer great challenges in the field of anti-submarine w...
21 May, 2007, 01.55 PM IST