If you receive regular water supply in your urban home, you have to thank Dr Pasala Dayaratnam. The massive elevated concrete water reservoirs...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadNovember 28, 2025Sankaran Mahadevan It is an honour to recount my interactions with Professor Dayaratnam, a remarkable teacher and a distinguished pioneer in structural engineering...
BySankaran MahadevanNovember 16, 2025India’s story of development is often narrated through the physical symbols of progress—bridges, dams, towers, industrial plants and educational institutions that transformed a...
ByBhuwan Mohan PrasadNovember 16, 2025On 22 October 2025, India woke to a sad news on the passing of its centenarian ISRO veteran scientist, Prof. Eknath Vasant Chitnis....
ByShivaprasad KhenedNovember 6, 2025“Education, industry, and culture were the three pillars upon which Raj Darbhanga stood — and upon which Bihar once dreamed of standing tall.”...
ByVasudha JhaOctober 18, 2025The nation gratefully remembers Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, who passed away in Chennai on 10 November 2019, as the man who cleaned up...
ByRavi Visvesvaraya Sharada PrasadOctober 10, 2025Honouring a secret deal, Congress Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao was a front foot participant in the building of the makeshift Shri...
ByManoj RaghuvanshiNovember 5, 2024Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, statesman, secular humanist, social democrat, and author who was a central figure in India during the...
ByTeam and BN UniyalMay 27, 2024Short in size, tall in stature. That aptly sums up N Sivasailam, the first special secretary to be appointed for logistics in the...
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