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Indira Gandhi International Airport
Indira Gandhi International Airport, also called Delhi Airport, serves Delhi, India, about 16 km from the city center; it is India's largest aviation hub, ranked ninth busiest worldwide in 2024.
Indira Gandhi National Open University (इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय)
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU, इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय), India's national open university under Act No. 50 of 1985, serves over 3 million students through 21 Schools of Studies, 67 Regional Centres, and about 200 ODL and online programmes.
Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project
The Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project is a 1,500 MW coal-fired power station at Jharli in Jhajjar district, Haryana, India, sharing its output equally between Haryana and Delhi.
Indira Gandhi Zoological Park
Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (Vizag Zoo) is a 625-acre zoo in Seethakonda Reserve Forest, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, established 1972 and opened 19 May 1977; a Central Zoo Authority large-category zoo and dhole conservation breeding nodal center.
Indira Goswami
Indira Goswami, known as Mamoni Raisom Goswami, was an Assamese novelist and Delhi University professor whose fiction about widows won the 2000 Jnanpith Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Indira Joshi (actor)
Indira Joshi (Indira Desai), British actress born 1942 in Sagaing, Burma; star of The Kumars at No. 42 (2001–2006), EastEnders' Mariam Ahmed, Coronation Street, and Superman IV (1987); still working at 80. Not a Hindi-film actress.
Indira Paganotto
Indira Paganotto (born 1992, Gran Canaria), also known as Psymama, is a Spanish DJ and producer who created psy-techno, a techno-psytrance fusion. Founder of ARTCORE label; DJ Mag Top 100 number 49; debut album Arte Como Amante with Nile Rodgers.
Indira Parthasarathy
Indira Parthasarathy is the pen name of Ranganathan Parthasarathy, born 1930, a Tamil writer and playwright known for the plays Aurangzeb and Ramanujar and for winning both the Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akademi awards.
Indira Point
Indira Point, formerly Pygmalion Point, is the southernmost point of India on Great Nicobar Island, marked by a 1972 lighthouse that subsided 4.25 m in the 2004 earthquake and tsunami.
Indira Sant
Indira Sant (इंदिरा संत, born Indira Dixit; 1914–2000) was a Marathi lyric poet, short-story writer, and essayist whose introspective poetry made her a leading woman poet of modern Marathi literature.
Indira Talwani
Indira Talwani, born 1960, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Massachusetts since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Indira Varma
Indira Varma is a British actress, born in Bath to an Indian father and Swiss mother, RADA-trained, known for Rome, Game of Thrones' Ellaria Sand, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and an Olivier Award for Present Laughter.
Indirect antiglobulin test
The indirect antiglobulin test (IAT) is a blood-bank laboratory method that detects free antibodies against red cells in serum, underpinning pretransfusion antibody screening, antibody identification, and antenatal testing.
Indirect calorimetry
Indirect calorimetry is a clinical method that estimates energy expenditure and substrate use from oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production, considered the gold standard in clinical settings.
Indirect detection of dark matter
Indirect detection of dark matter is the search for gamma rays, neutrinos, and cosmic-ray antimatter produced when dark matter annihilates or decays, complementing direct laboratory detection.
Indirect drive
Indirect drive is an inertial confinement fusion approach in which lasers heat a gold hohlraum, producing x-rays that compress the fuel capsule, the primary method at the National Ignition Facility.
Indirect election
Indirect election: voters choose electors or intermediary bodies that then select the officeholder, as in the US Electoral College, India's Rajya Sabha, and parliamentary votes installing prime ministers; historically defended as an epistocratic refinement of popular choice.
Indirect ELISA
Indirect ELISA is an immunoassay that measures specific antibodies in serum or plasma, using an enzyme-linked secondary antibody for amplification and greater sensitivity than direct ELISA.
Indirect evaporative cooler
An indirect evaporative cooler is a heat exchanger device that cools a primary airstream without adding moisture, using a secondary airstream cooled by water evaporation.
Indirect extrusion
Indirect extrusion, also called backward extrusion, is a metal forming process in which a die on a hollow ram pushes into a stationary billet, cutting friction and force by 20 to 30 percent versus direct extrusion.
Indirect fire
Indirect fire is firing projectiles at a target the shooting element cannot see or use as an aiming point, the normal mode for artillery, mortars, and rocket launchers.
Indirect gasification
Indirect gasification, also called allothermal gasification, is a gasification process that supplies heat to convert solid fuel into gas via hot bed material circulating between two reactors, keeping the product gas nitrogen-free.
Indirect immunofluorescence
Indirect immunofluorescence is a microscopy detection method in which an unlabeled primary antibody binds an antigen and a fluorophore-tagged secondary antibody makes the binding visible, amplifying the signal.
Indirect inference
Indirect inference is a simulation-based econometric method for estimating economic models whose likelihood is intractable, introduced by Gourieroux, Monfort, and Renault in 1993 in Econometrica and the Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Indirect object identification circuit
The indirect object identification (IOI) circuit is a set of attention heads in GPT-2 small that performs grammatical sentence completion, identified in 2022 and published at ICLR 2023.
Indirect ophthalmoscopy
Indirect ophthalmoscopy is an eye examination technique in which a head-mounted instrument and a hand-held condensing lens give a wide, stereoscopic, inverted view of the retina.
Indirect potable reuse
Indirect potable reuse (IPR) is the planned addition of purified recycled wastewater to a drinking water supply through an environmental buffer such as an aquifer or reservoir.
Indirect pulp capping
Indirect pulp capping is a dental treatment for deep caries in which a protective dressing is placed over demineralized dentin left near the pulp, preserving tooth vitality.
Indirect rule
Indirect rule: colonial governance through existing local rulers under imperial supervision, defined by Fisher for British India and developed by Lugard in northern Nigeria; British practice differed from French direct rule and left measurable postcolonial legacies.
Indirect rule in Northern Nigeria
Indirect rule in Northern Nigeria was a British colonial system developed under Frederick Lugard from 1900, governing a conquered Muslim society through its own emirs and courts.