The 5th edition of this prestigious award will be held in Chennai on March 1. ...
04:26 PM, Feb 28, 2013
New Delhi: India's 'Agni Putri', Tessy Thomas, the woman behind the successful test firing of the country's first inter continental ballistic missile Agni-V, says she doesn't mind the nickname given to her, as far as it is with affection. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Thomas said that when she started her career as a scientist at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), she had only four female colleagues. She adds...
08:25 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Tessy Thomas leads a team of 400 scientists at the DRDO where she has been working for past 20 years. ...
10:27 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Hyderabad: It's been a challenging job for the scientist who is responsible for making the launch of Agni-V successful. Tessy Thomas may be a homemaker to her family but is known as 'Agniputri' to the world for her achievement in the field of missile technology. It all started in Alleppey, Kerala. After a B.Tech from Thrissur Engineering College, her fascination for radar and missile systems led her to join the...
12:50 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: Forget breaking the glass ceiling, Tessy Thomas has virtually blasted her way through it. The 48-year-old is the first-ever woman director of an Indian missile project and is set to place India in an elite club of nations like the US, Russia and China with the capability to produce their own long-range Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). She will achieve that when India tests its 5,000-km range nuclear capable...
11:52 AM, Nov 21, 2011
