Iran hangs assassin of nuclear physicist
May 15th, 2012 - 1:35 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, May 15 (IANS) Iran Tuesday hanged a man convicted of assassinating an Iranian nuclear physicist, a media report said.
Majid Jamali Fashi, who was also accused of being an ... Read more...
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Iran blames Israel for killing nuclear staff (Lead)
January 11th, 2012 - 8:25 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Jan 11 (IANS) Iran blamed Israel Wednesday for assassinating an Iranian nuclear official earlier in the morning in a car bomb attack in Tehran, Xinhua reported.Media reports gave varying ... Read more...
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Iranian nuclear scientist killed in car bombing
January 11th, 2012 - 3:37 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Jan 11 (IANS) A car bombing in Tehran killed a nuclear scientist Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks against such scientists in Iran, media reports said.A motorcyclist ... Read more...
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Nuclear scientist P.K. Iyengar dead (Lead)
December 21st, 2011 - 10:28 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 21 (IANS) Eminent nuclear scientist P.K. Iyengar, former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission and a key member of the team which made possible India's first peaceful nuclear explosion ... Read more...
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Nuclear scientist P.K. Iyengar dead
December 21st, 2011 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 21 (IANS) Eminent nuclear scientist P.K. Iyengar, former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), passed away after a brief illness here Wednesday, an official source said.He is ... Read more...
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Man gets death for killing Iranian N-scientist
August 29th, 2011 - 4:00 am ICT by IANS
Tehran, Aug 29 (IANS) A man accused of killing an Iranian nuclear physicist in 2010 was Sunday sentenced to death, a media report said.Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a professor of Tehran University, ... Read more...
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‘Pak must dump nuke fission power production as can’t handle Fukushima-like disaster’
March 22nd, 2011 - 3:08 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar 22(ANI): Pakistan must downsize its nuclear fission power production, as the country cannot handle a crisis like that caused by the stricken Fukushima power plant in Japan, whose radioactivity emission ... Read more...
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Nuclear physicist who helped create China’s first atom bomb dead
February 27th, 2011 - 1:19 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Feb.27 (ANI): Zhu Guangya a nuclear physicist who developed China's first atom and hydrogen bombs, died on Saturday.Guangya was 87, The Xinhua reported.He contributed to China's breakthrough in atomic and hydrogen ... Read more...
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‘The Bomb’ or more or better weapons no panacea for Pak’s existential problems: Expert
February 5th, 2011 - 6:33 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Feb 5(ANI): Even if Pakistan surpasses India in the nuclear weapon number-game, this feat will neither make Pakistan "more secure" nor will it make the nation "more capable of facing current ... Read more...
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Hindus ask for Britain’s apology for millions of starvation deaths of 1943 famine
September 10th, 2010 - 6:57 pm ICT by ANI
Nevada (US), Sept 10 (ANI): Hindus want Britain to tender a formal apology to India and relatives of affected families for reportedly about three million starvation deaths in the great famine of ... Read more...
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Radiation case: Delhi varsity teachers seek independent probe
April 30th, 2010 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Teachers of Delhi University Friday sought an independent probe into the radiation leak in which one person was killed and seven people were affected in the ... Read more...
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‘Lack of will to reform holds up research in Muslim world’
April 1st, 2010 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 1 (IANS) Scientific research in Islamic countries suffers from a lack of political will to reform, to tackle corruption and to overhaul failing educational systems, institutions and attitudes, a theoretical ... Read more...
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Iran’s N-scientist defected to CIA: Report
April 1st, 2010 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 1 (IANS) An Iranian nuclear scientist, who has been missing since June last from Saudi Arabia, has defected to the US and is helping in CIA's operation against Tehran's nuclear ... Read more...
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Iranian nuke scientist defects to US
March 31st, 2010 - 9:54 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar.31 (ANI): An Iranian nuclear scientist has defected to the United States and according to sources in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will be resettled there.US intelligence officials told ABC ... Read more...
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Hasina’s son joins politics, Zia’s party welcomes move
February 26th, 2010 - 9:40 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Feb 26 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has formally joined politics, a move that was Friday welcomed by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) ... Read more...
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Asian Security Conference to focus on 2030 scenario
February 9th, 2010 - 7:29 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The concerns that India and other Asian nations will face on security and other fronts two decades hence will be the focus of a three-day conference that ... Read more...
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US-Israel mercenaries killed nuclear expert: Iran (Second Lead)
January 12th, 2010 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Jan 12 (IANS) Mercenaries of the US and Israel were behind the motorbike blast that killed an Iranian nuclear physicist Tuesday, Iran said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mihman-Parast termed the attack as ... Read more...
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Iranian nuclear physicist killed in blast (Lead)
January 12th, 2010 - 4:00 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, Jan 12 (IANS) An Iranian nuclear physicist was killed in a remote-controlled motorbike blast here Tuesday.
Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at the Tehran University and a staunch supporter of the Islamic ... Read more...
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Indo-Canadian author wins Canada Governor General’s Award
January 5th, 2010 - 4:50 pm ICT by ANI
Nevada (US), Jan 5 (ANI): A Canadian author of Indian heritage has won the prestigious Governor General's Literary Award.Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji's book "A Place Within: Rediscovering India" bagged him the Award in ... Read more...
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Kaiga incident: Wake up call or tempest in teapot?
December 3rd, 2009 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS
By K.S. Jayaraman
Bangalore, Dec 3 (IANS) Whoever spiked the water cooler in the Kaiga atomic plant with radioactive tritium on Nov 24 has not been original.A simple Google search will reveal that ... Read more...
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Arrested ‘big bang’ scientist charged with terrorism
October 13th, 2009 - 1:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, October 13 (ANI): A leading nuclear physicist associated with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been charged with terrorism offences by a Paris judge after investigators said that he offered ... Read more...
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Arrested “big bang” scientist admits he led second life as al-Qa’ida “mole”
October 12th, 2009 - 12:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 12 (ANI): A leading nuclear physicist associated with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has admitted to French investigators that he led a second life as an al-Qa'ida "mole".The French ... Read more...
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Marie Curie named greatest woman scientist of all time
July 2nd, 2009 - 5:31 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 2 (ANI): Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist Marie Curie, who discovered that radiation therapy could treat cancer, has been voted the greatest woman scientist of all time.The Polish-born researcher bagged over ... Read more...
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Aishwarya goes beyond glitz halo, campaigns social cause
May 13th, 2009 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
By Saibal Chatterjee
Cannes, May 13 (IANS) Aishwarya Rai, a regular at the Cannes Film Festival red carpet and L'Oreal brand ambassador, is going beyond her glitz and glamour tag. She is ... Read more...
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Scientists create clock that takes 300 million yrs to lose just 1sec
April 17th, 2009 - 12:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 17 (ANI): Researchers studying ultra-cold atoms have made a clock that takes 300 million years to lose just one second.The atomic clock, which is twice as accurate as any similar ... Read more...
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India-born US nuclear physicist Shiva Subramanya dead
February 6th, 2009 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) India-born US nuclear physicist Shiva Subramanya is dead. He was 76, a family member said Friday.Subramanya, who was a space scientist and a management consultant, was twice nominated ... Read more...
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Hasina to resume poll campaign despite security warnings (Second Lead)
December 23rd, 2008 - 12:53 am ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Dec 22 (IANS) Amid reports of a plot to kill her, former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina Monday said she would resume her campaign for the poll due Dec 29 despite ... Read more...
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Hasina cancels poll campaign following death threat (Lead)
December 22nd, 2008 - 10:26 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Dec 22 (IANS) Reports of a plot to kill former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have forced her to stay away from her campaign for next Monday's ninth general election. She ... Read more...
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Iran has enough nuclear fuel to make a single atom bomb
November 20th, 2008 - 2:29 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Nov 20 (ANI): Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material, with added purification, to make a single atom bomb, The New York Times quotes nuclear experts, as saying. ... Read more...
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New cancer treatment uses heavy ion beams to kill deep-seated tumours
October 25th, 2008 - 5:51 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct 25 (ANI): Chinese nuclear physicists have developed a new treatment for cancer that uses heavy ion beams to kill malignant tumours more than 2.1 cm below the skin''s ... Read more...
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Hasina gets more freedom after civic poll win
August 6th, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Aug 6 (IANS) Bangladesh's military-backed caretaker government has extended the parole of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina by another month to facilitate her medical treatment in the US, shortly after her ... Read more...
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