Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday officially announced the finding of a natural gas field in the northwestern seas off Mannar for the first time.

Testifies to the nation's growing prowess in space

China on Thursday evening successfully launched its first space laboratory module, a key first step in its objective of becoming only the third country, after Russia and the United States, to assemble its own space station by 2020.

China is due to take its first step towards building a space station on Thursday (today) when it launches an experimental module ahead of the country’s National Day celebrations.

In Japan's most aggressive move to promote exports of nuclear technology since the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March, a Tokyo-based utility consortium signed a deal with Vietnam on Wednesday to c

Government-owned iron ore producer National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) on Wednesday said that it is looking to e-auction about 2 lakh tonne of iron ore from Karnataka mines starting this week to provide some relief to the steel companies.

Meetings between the chief nuclear envoys of North and South Korea were “constructive,” negotiators said, even though the talks did not produce any breakthroughs on the longstanding impasse over th

Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) increased by 45 % between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tons in 2010.

Even as diplomats and officials were taken aback by the protests against the smooth-sailing India-Russia nuclear plant venture at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, Russia on Tuesday described the protests

Siemens is exiting nuclear power in response to the German government's decision to quit the energy source, leading it to scrap a venture with Russia's Rosatom, its chief executive said.

PANJIM: General Secretary of the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication, (NOTE) has written to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting him to take part in a high level committee United Nations meeting on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.