Globe trotting Kolhapuri chappal

Sunday 28 January '07

Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz has a pair and now, so does Prince Charles, after Mumbai dabbawallahs carried him a wedding present.

Bangalore gets an auction centre to tap flower power

Friday 19 January '07

City gets state-of-the-art International Flower Auction Centre to channelise local market, ease exports; more to follow in Mumbai, Kolkata, Noida

IISc satellite classes: More countries, courses on the anvil

Sunday 10 December '06

Already having a cyber programme with the Toulouse University Network, France, for live classes, the Indian Institute of Science...

Indian stem cell research takes human leap

Sunday 26 November '06

Stem cell research in the country will reach a new milestone with clinical trials on humans all set to start in February next year.

Biocon launches anti-cancer drug

Saturday 11 November '06

Monoclonal antibodies are emerging as an effective new class of drugs to address cancer and auto-immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, head and neck cancer etc.

Biocon, Cuban centre in JV to launch new drug in US

Monday 16 October '06

While the ban on Cuban imports is still very severe in the US, a new antibody drug for rheumatoid arthritis...

Bangalore in fast lane, by mid-’08

Tuesday 10 October '06

The summer of 2008 will bring much cheer for the 6.5 million inhabitants of India’s IT capital Bangalore. Reason: The first phase of the Bangalore metro project covering 33 km is slated to be complete by March 2008 and the first of its kind in India

Her journey: Naxal arrest to Colombo gold

Sunday 10 September '06

When you tell her she’s been dubbed the next PT Usha, she looks you in the eye and says you are wrong. “I am much better.’’

In time of quotas, India’s Silicon Valley takes lessons in diversity

Sunday 27 August '06

Far away from the epicentre of the reservation debate, international firms tucked away in Bangalore are focussing on how to make workplaces ``diversity-friendly.’’

Waste bites back

Sunday 28 May '06

The new buzzword in the IT capital is e-waste and the city is gearing up to make sure the pilot project being held here is successful in bringing about the first legislation on managing electronic trash in the country.

From IISc, IIL, a cheap rabies vaccine

Friday 5 May '06

In a big first for India in indigenous vaccine development, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Indian Immunologicals Ltd, Hyderabad, have jointly come up with a unique low-cost anti-rabies vaccine for the first time in India.

The New Science

Sunday 30 April '06

It’s the new buzz in the computer world: Services Sciences, Management and Engineering is the new emerging area.

IISc to help Boeing build stronger, lighter planes

Saturday 29 April '06

The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is all geared up for a research and development tie-up with Boeing.

IIM-B: $193,000 pa

Sunday 12 March '06

$193,000. That’s how much 29-year-old Gaurav Agarwal of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, will make once he joins Barclays Capital