Age of Missile technology
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- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam served as the program director for the Integrated Guided Missile Program by DRDO, which was launched on July 26, 1983. This program produced Prithvi, Trishul, Akash, Nag, and Agni as a result.
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India walking towards Antarctica
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- To study oceanography, geology, glaciology, geomagnetism, and environmental sciences, India built its scientific base station (Dakshin Gangotri) in Antarctica, about 2,500 kilometers from the South Pole.
- This was shut down in 1988, and 90 kilometers from the original station, Maitri, which was also India’s first permanent station, was built in its place.
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Age of Communication Technology
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- Under Sam Pitroda, the Telecom Research Center of the Department of Telecom, as well as scientists and engineers from TIFR, established the Centre for Development of Telematics in 1984.
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A breakthrough in forensics
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- Technology for DNA fingerprinting was created in 1988 by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology. India was the third nation to create the technology.
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