Research

The agreement was signed at SAMEER headquarters on the IIT Bombay campus in Mumbai by Dr. A. K. Anil Kumar, Director of ISTRAC/ISRO, and Dr. P. Hanumantha Rao, Director General of SAMEER. SAMEER is an autonomous research and development laboratory under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, while ISTRAC is the ISRO centre responsible for telemetry reception, tracking and commanding for satellite, launch vehicle and deep-space missions.

HAB-1, short for Habitat-1, is described as a compact inflatable habitat equipped with essential systems such as a kitchen, sanitation facilities and a hydroponics unit. The purpose of such a habitat is to create a self-contained living environment where crew members can operate under restrictions similar to those expected in future Moon or Mars missions. It is not just about surviving inside a pod; it is about learning how humans behave, work, communicate and remain healthy when separated from normal social, environmental and logistical support.

For India, the research is especially important because the Indian wolf is not simply a local version of the common grey wolf seen in Europe or North America. It represents an old evolutionary branch with its own genetic history. The same is true of the Tibetan wolf, which survives in high-altitude landscapes linked to the Tibetan plateau and Himalayan regions. These wolves are living records of how the species adapted to different Asian landscapes over deep time.

The study deals with one of the deepest limitations in quantum physics: not every property of a quantum system can be measured together with perfect precision. This idea is rooted in Bohr’s complementarity principle and appears in familiar quantum examples such as the trade-off between path information and interference in the double-slit experiment, or the difficulty of jointly measuring non-commuting observables like different spin components of a particle.

At Sriharikota, Vikram-1 will undergo final integration, system checks and launch-preparation activities before a launch window is fixed. According to reports, key pre-flight testing has already been completed, while important propulsion stages have reached the spaceport. The latest movement of flight hardware includes the payload fairing, the protective structure that shields satellites during ascent through the atmosphere.

The indigenously developed Silicon Photonics PDK comes with more than 50 verified components, giving Indian industry, startups, academic institutions and defence R&D organisations an important design foundation to develop advanced photonic integrated circuits.

The research looks at what happens when a less viscous Newtonian fluid such as water displaces a non-Newtonian clay suspension inside a confined space.

The research was led by Devendra Verma, along with research scholars Shreya Chrungoo and Tanmay Bharadwaj. The team has secured a patent for their invention, described as a high shape-fidelity protein-polysaccharide composite bio-ink. Their work addresses a key global challenge in bioprinting: the lack of materials that can combine structural strength, printability, and biological compatibility in a single system.