Mission District

Combating filariasis through mass drug administration

Edit The Hindu 20 Nov 2016

Srivastava said one of the targets under the National Health Mission was to bring down micro filaria prevalence in all districts to less than one per cent ... National Health Mission to bring down micro filaria prevalence in all districts to less than one per cent....

Coast Guard suspends search for overdue boater, 66, near Jensen Beach (United States Coast Guard - 7th District Southeast)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Nov 2016

(Source. United States Coast Guard - 7th District Southeast) ... Missing is Stuart Savanuck, 66 ... Todd Coggeshall, chief of response management for the Coast Guard 7th District. 'Our goal for every search and rescue mission is to find survivors and return them to their loved ones ... United States Coast Guard - 7th District Southeast published this content on 19 November 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein ... (noodl....

House panel reviews smart city projects

Edit The Times of India 20 Nov 2016

It held a meeting with the district administration and reviewed the various schemes being implemented under housing laws ... Addressing the meet, Thakur appreciated the proposal of Dharamshala Smart City Mission saying, "However, tThe authorities should ......

Rescuers in Aleppo 'run out of bodybags' after intense day of bombardment where hospital is attacked

Edit The Independent 20 Nov 2016

Russia says it has not bombed Aleppo for '28 days', as strikes resume Aleppo air strikes resume as Russia and Assad launch massive offensive Aleppo offensive is just the next step in Russia's Syrian mission ....

Proxima mission Thomas Pesquet reaches International Space Station (CNES - Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Nov 2016

France's ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, mission commander Oleg Novitsky (Roscosmos) and U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson (NASA) have safely entered the station and are now ready to start their six-month mission ... His mission has been named Proxima after Proxima Centauri, the star nearest our Sun, continuing the tradition of naming European missions on the ISS after stars....

Vimukthi Mission to be launched today

Edit The Times of India 20 Nov 2016

Vimukthi Mission is a mass campaign programme being organized with the support of anti-drug clubs in schools and colleges, NSS, Kudumbashree, student police cadets, state library councils and other volunteer organizations....

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrives at the International Space Station (ESA - European Space Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Nov 2016

This marks the start of Thomas's Proxima mission, named after the closest star to the Sun - continuing a tradition of naming missions with French astronauts after stars and constellations. The mission is part of ESA's vision to use Earth-orbiting spacecraft as a place to live and work for the benefit of European society while using the experience to prepare for future voyages of exploration further into the Solar System....

HDK preparing to double JD(S) tally in North Karnataka

Edit The Times of India 20 Nov 2016

Even as state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa is working on Mission 150 -getting 150 MLAs elected from the party in the 2018 assembly elections, his counterpart in the JD(S) HD Kumaraswamy has launched the task of increasing his party's tally in north Karnataka....

NASA weighs its options on Orion, SLS for deep-space exploration

Edit Business Journal 20 Nov 2016

NASA is looking for ways to cut the cost of taking astronauts on missions past the moon after 2023 and will consider alternatives to its Orion deep-space capsule being built by Jefferson County-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co ... sustainable to launch annual deep-space missions to areas around the moon and out of the nation on a footing…....

Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports Launch of NOAA’s Next-Generation Geostationary Weather Satellite

Edit Nasdaq Globe Newswire 20 Nov 2016

The mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket ... More than 470 RL10 engines have supported launches over the last 50 years, helping to place military, government and commercial satellites into orbit, and powering scientific space-probe missions on every planetary mission in our solar system....

In survey department, compass points south

Edit The Times of India 20 Nov 2016

The department of revenue has cancelled the "working arrangement system" in the survey department that helped employees to work in their home districts. The system has resulted in an unequal distribution of survey officials across the state, as most of the northern districts were bereft of enough officials while the southern districts were having them in surplus....

Space station receives oldest female astronaut, bit of Mars

Edit Dayton Daily News 20 Nov 2016

They joined three men already on board, one American and two Russians. This is the third space station mission for Whitson, who at 56 is older than each of her crewmates ... nearly 400 days during her various missions ... � ... He joined the new crew's family and friends at Russia's Mission Control outside Moscow to welcome the newcomers on board ... This is the third space station mission for Whitson, who at 56 is older than each of her crewmates ... �....

Veteran US Astronaut Sets Another Record in Orbit

Edit Voa News 20 Nov 2016

Whitson, who will be the mission commander once her team settles in orbit, already holds the record for time spent in space by a woman — over 400 days during her various missions ... Prior to this mission, no woman older than 55 had flown in space ... Major General Jing Haipeng and Colonel Chen Dong spent 33 days in orbit, a new record for Chinese manned space missions....

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