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.”