NASA formally approved an emergency space shuttle mission in mid-October to replace failing gyroscopes aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The $2 billion observatory is equipped with six stabilizing

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has made it mandatory for all the listed companies to disclose in their quarterly results their Y2K preparedness level. This vital information, according to

Generals from the U.S. United Nations Command and North Korea failed to reach a deal on how to avert potential military accidents caused by millennium bug computer glitches. The meeting was called

Daio Paper Corp. (Japan) aims to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions in 2010 to half the 1990 level. To achieve that goal, the papermaker plans to expand overseas forestation efforts and its

Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Japan) said it has developed a laser-based system capable of detecting particulate contaminants with high precision in gases and liquids. The system can detect particles as

Videogames are coming ever closer to simulating the real world-or at least Hollywood's version of it. The day they succeed is now less than a decade away : a

The Rs 300-crore Ashok Paper Mills (Assam) Ltd at Jogighopa has been turned into a green pasture by the Hyderabad-based Sanghi Textile Processors Private Limited and the previous Congress Government

AT&T Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. said they formed a venture to develop a software language that allows users to access the Internet by voice. The companies are hoping that the

A major breakthrough promises to transform the agricultural sector

The Supreme Court (SC) ruled that the establishment of industrial townships in areas belonging to village pan