A new technique for cervical cancer has developed which can locate the cancer at early stage. Nandita de Souza and her team has developed this technique at the Institute of Cancer Research and London’s Royal Marsden Hospital. The new technique called as 'Diffusion weighted imaging'.

This technique allows the doctors to carry out precise surgery to remove the tumours. The team observed 59 women with cervical cancer aged between 24 and 83 over a period of 22 months and they found that 88% of cancer cases were detected by using the new technique as compare to 77% who were detected by using external scans.

Banglore: A good news for the teaching staff, working with the higher education sector. The Department of Collegiate Education held an ‘Education Adalat’ to solve the problems of faculty regarding their promotions, placements, incentives and settlement of pensions etc.  

Arvind Limbavali, Higher Education Minister, inaugurated the Adalat in Banglore and he addressed the teaching staff “Now that a system has been put in place to solve your problems, I expect you to focus completely on improving your colleges, especially the standard of education.”

Gold prices slumped sharply today to end the day with a loss of Rs 370 per 10 grams to Rs 12,155. The price of Gold in local markets dropped due to dramatic collapse in the international prices.

In the local market, standard gold (99.5 purity) ended at Rs 12,155 and pure gold (99.9 purity) also went down by Rs 355 per 10 grams to Rs 12,230 from Rs 12,585 yesterday.

Along with this, Silver also eased further on lack of industrial demand. Silver ready (.999 fineness) corrected by another Rs 70 per kilo to Rs 17,980 from Rs 18,050.

Tata Teleservices, a part of the Tata Group of companies, has informed that it would launch its services in Jammu and Kashmir and the North Eastern region in next two month.

The proposed roll out of services would take its presence to 21 circles across the country. Presently, the company operates in more than 6600 towns across 19 circles.

Dr. Geoffrey Hackett, an urologist claims that erectile dysfunction is an early warning sign (two to three years) of an impending heart attack.

In a letter published in the online edition of British Medical Journal, Hackett writes that it is often ignored as doctors feel uncomfortable asking about it, thus treating it more like a ‘recreational or lifestyle issue’.  However, it is no longer acceptable to ignore the issue, and it is clinical negligence on the part of doctors to treat impotence as a socially embarrassing afflicition.