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Why Is This Famous Israeli Commando At The Taj?

Don't be fooled by this smiling pensioner with his missus at the Taj Mahal on Sunday, March 6, 2022. This 80 year old was once the man most feared by terrorists in the Arab world. 'During his......

Chandrayaan-3 Will Head To Moon In 2022

ISRO hopes to put a crew on the moon, but it has to learn how to keep people alive and healthy in space first. *IMAGE: The moon has large deposits of metals. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

In-principle nod for 6 nuclear power reactors at Jaitapur

In-principle approval has been accorded to a site in Maharashtra's Jaitapur for setting up six nuclear power reactors of 1,650 MW each in technical cooperation with France, the government said on......

How will Biden deal with Iran?

The reversal of Trump's policy with regard to Iran, like the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, may not be a matter of just turning the clock back, but one of patient negotiations, with uncertain......

Pakistan may soon have 3rd largest nuke stockpile

It currently has between 140 and 150 nuclear weapons in its control and stockpiled around 200 to 300 kilogram of plutonium. Pakistan is well on its way to amassing the world’s third largest......

ONGC Videsh gets foothold in Kazakh

India and Kazakhstan on Saturday signed seven agreements, one of which formalises the transfer of 25 per cent stake of the Kazakh oil and gas company, Kazmunaigas (KMG), in its Satpayev Exploration......

Government bans food imports from Japan

Almost a month after Japan was devastated by a high-intensity earthquake, followed by radiation from nuclear reactors, the government has banned import of food articles from that country with......

Climate meet: Nuclear energy becomes pivotal

Proposals are being worked upon at the Copenhagen summit to cut the greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, prominent among which is the use of nuclear energy. A broad scientific consensus......

Looking for energy, Google goes to hell

Deep underneath your feet is a hellish stone soup, kept hot by a torrent of radiation from poisonous isotopes of uranium, thorium and potassium in the earth's superheated mantle. This is the heat......

Peregrine plans cancer drug trial in India

US drug research major Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Inc will conduct trials of its latest brain cancer drug-Cotara in India. The safety and efficacy study of this drug at seven clinical centres in the......

WADA restores India's Dope Testing Lab's accreditation

IMAGE: The World Anti-Doping Agency first suspended India’s NDTL in August 2019 for six months and extended the de-recognition period after its inspections showed that non-conformities still......

Jolt for Indian sports: WADA extends NDTL suspension by 6 months

IMAGE: Participants talk before the start of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) symposium. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters In a massive jolt to India's Olympic preparations, the World......

Polonium traces found at Arsenal soccer stadium

British investigators have found minute traces of polonium 210, the radioactive isotope that killed former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, at a London soccer stadium, a public health spokeswoman......

Landis fails second doping test

American Floyd Landis is likely to lose his Tour de France title after a second drugs sample confirmed a positive test for excessive amounts of the male sex hormone testosterone. A statement issued......

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