{"id":978,"date":"2014-08-21T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=978"},"modified":"2014-08-21T19:35:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T19:35:18","slug":"k-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"Kochi defence scientist bags top honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S. Anantha Narayanan, the Director of the city-based Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), the only institution under the Defence Research and Development Organisation in Kerala, has been selected for DRDO\u2019s coveted \u2018Technology Leadership Award\u2019 for the year 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The award, carrying Rs 2 lakh and a citation, will be presented by the Prime Minister at a function in Delhi on August 20.<\/p>\n<p>Under Mr. Narayanan\u2019s stewardship, NPOL harnessed critical technologies to develop underwater communication and surveillance systems for the Navy. \u00a0All frontline ships of the Navy are fitted with NPOL-developed sonars.<\/p>\n<p>source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home&gt; News&gt; Cities&gt; Kochi \/ by \u00a0Special Correspondent \/ Kochi &#8211; August 19th, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. Anantha Narayanan, the Director of the city-based Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), the only institution under the Defence Research and Development Organisation in Kerala, has been selected for DRDO\u2019s coveted \u2018Technology Leadership Award\u2019 for the year 2013. The award, carrying Rs 2 lakh and a citation, will be presented by the Prime Minister &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=978\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kochi defence scientist bags top honour<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-records-all","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}