JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that telemedicine and treatment of patients through satellite uplink would play a significant role in the health care in future in the State with several initiatives being taken on the modern technology front.

Director of Public Health S. Elango on Monday said clarifications were needed on the bio-safety of Genetically Modified (GM) mosquitoes being developed by researchers globally to combat vector-borne diseases such as malaria, chikungunya and dengue.

He said here that public health administrators and governments could not take any chances with GM technology unless safety was assured.

Farmers should adopt modern technologies of cultivation and the scientists should improve on the traditional cultivation methods by inventing useful equipment that suit the local needs, opined agriculturist Dr H Somashekhar.

If you want to see the future of the information technology industry, South Korea is one of the best places to begin. As the world wrestles with using IT for solving industrial problems, South Korea is experimenting with IT projects that could help with some of the world

On the occasion of the 135th Foundation Day of the indian meteorological department (IMD), minister for science and technology and earth sciences Prithviraj Chavan inaugurated India's first mega computer (IBM P6) which will go long away in providing accurate weather predictions.

The Group of Technopark Companies (G-Tech) is set to host a

A consortium led by Alcatel-Lucent yesterday outlined a research programme to produce technology within five years that can cut the carbon emissions from telecoms networks by a factor of 1,000.