By Pradip R Sagar | Published: 08th October 2017 NEW DELHI: With a dream to work for his country after spending a successful stint overseas, Dr Gausal Ahmed Khan applied for the post of senior scientist in the country’s premier defence research institute—DRDO—in 2009. Eight years down the line, Khan’s dreams were shattered when he […]
Bacteria from Antarctica or cow dung? DRDO’s bio-toilet claim questioned
By ABHINANDAN MISHRA | New Delhi | 21 August, 2016 -The Sunday Guardian Some scientists working with the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) have questioned the veracity of the claim that the DRDO uses bacteria brought from Antarctica in its much-talked about bio-toilets that are being […]
DRDO’s bio-toilets raise a stink
By Hemant Kumar Rout Published: 13th August 2016 – The New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: The much-hyped bio-toilets invented by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and installed in railway coaches, public places and colonies seem to have sparked of a controversy with some senior scientists raising voice against the functioning and technology which allegedly uses cow […]
Jairam Ramesh’s pet project ‘Bio-toilet’ stands abandoned in Odisha
By Hemant Kumar Rout – BALASORE/BHADRAK Published: 14th August 2012 11:45 AM Union Minister for Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Jairam Rameshs’s ‘India Dream’ to free the country – the rural populace in particular – from open defecation, seems to have faced a setback with people unwilling to use DRDO made Bio-toilets raising a […]
Army Tramples on Faulty DRDO Study on Siachen Deployment
By Pradip R Sagar Published: 02nd Nov 2014 06:06:55 AM The New Indian Express – The Sunday Standard NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit this Diwali to the world’s highest battlefield, Siachen, to applaud the Indian army troops deployed there again brought into national focus the difficulty of operating under such adverse climatic […]
Nearly 700 scientists quit DRDO in six years, says Govt
NEW DELHI, December 5, 2012 – THE HINDU Nearly 700 scientists have resigned from India’s premier military research body DRDO in little less than six years from 2007, Defence Minister A K Antony said on Wednesday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on resignation of scientists from Defence Research and […]
