European Union transport ministers opened the way for the creation of $2.6bn space-age navigation system aimed at freeing the EU from dependance on US and Russian facilities and creating tens of

Exxon Corp and Dow Chemical Co said they had settled a patent dispute that has held back a huge potential market for improved plastics made with catalysts at the centre of the

The new worm virus which struck on June 6, has once again emphasised the threat posed by malicious software to the networked world, either a public domain like the Internet or a company-owned

The synchroton radiation source Indus-1, described by the department of science and technology as the most important research tool developed since the invention of the microscope, has been

More than 500 experts, academicians and scientists are expected to attend the three-day geographic information technology conference 'Map India '99' to be jointly organised by the Indian Space

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) is developing a new space vehicle capable of attaining yet unimaginable speeds during the next 10 to 50 years, according to George Schmidt,

The automobile industry can breathe easy with the Supreme Court lifting its earlier restrictions on the sale of cars; plea for extending deadline on emission norms rejected

The fishing industry in Uganda is in disarray, with local authorities and the central government taking conflicting stances on the recent lifting of a ban on fish vending. Minister of state for

The FBI, in trying to contaian a destructive new software bug that has already infected tens of thousands of computers, warned users of machines running on Microsoft Windows systems against opening

A computer virus that operates like the recent Melissa virus but destroys computer files is rapidly spreading across the Internet via personal email, leading US software companies report.The