The 23rd Congress of the International Society of Sugarcane Technologies, which will have relevance for the Indian sugar industry which is striving to improve productivity, will be held here from

A major study to assess tobacco attributable mortality in Chennai has been taken up by the cancer Institute, Adyar, with financial support from three international

A 50-year moratorium on mining in Antarctica notwithstanding expanding scientific activity and tourism pose a serious threat to the continent's fragile ecosystem, which could affect ocean chemistry

The Orthopaedic Research Society, Department of Orthopaedics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, is organising an international conference and workshop on total knee replacement, on April

Fish-kill on a massive scale is going on in the river Cauvery, particularly near the boundary between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Besides using huge nets, the poachers are "dynamiting" the river for a

Following a long delay, a Russian booster rocket lifted off today, carrying seven communication satellites into space, officials said. The Proton-K rocket left the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the former

The WTO ruled yesterday that sea turtles endangered by shrimp fishers cannot be used as an excuse for trade discrimination.A WTO dispute panel in Geneva said the United States had no right to ban

India's population will comprise a good percentage of old people in the next century - courtesy the increasing life span. With this in mind, the younger generation should be imparted the right type

A sudden engine failure caused the Mir space station to drift out of alignment, forcing two Russian cosmonauts to hurriedly cut short a space walk, mission control

No more injections,no longer any stitches and no pad on the eyes, the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi has taken the lead in introducing, for the first time in the Capital, the Lasik Laser