President A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday said people must unite to root out cross-border terrorism, which was a hurdle for economic prosperity and development of the country.
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Dismissing DAE's reply that most of the items were working satisfactorily, CAG said the department should have analysed all the aspects before ordering for the equipment.
The thorium reactor does not require natural or enriched uranium which the country is finding difficult to import.
The Vasundhara Raje government nominated the controversial sculptor and 11 others as the members of the governing board of Jaipur's Jawahar Kala Kendra on November 16.
The fire was brought under control after three hours, a Mumbai Fire Brigade official said, adding that cooling operations were underway.
'Citizens for a Just Society' stated that BARC was situated on the earthquake zone. In case of any disaster, NWDE would emit nuclear radiations into the environment, which would have harmful effect on the population.
Pratmesh Prabhu also did well at the IIT-JEE.
BARC suspends 3 in radiation exposure case
Abhas Mitra of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre was perhaps the first and the only scientist to have questioned Hawking's concept of black holes.
The 'Anupam' supercomputer is also about three times faster than the 64-node supercomputer developed in July 2002 by the organisation.
President A P J Abdul Kalam will deliver the first Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial Lecture, instituted in the memory of the late chairman of Reliance Group of Industries, in Mumbai on July 6.
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The youths, Asif Sheikh and Danish Sheikh (both 19), had alleged that they were assaulted by police inspector Kedar Pawar and others, who were on night duty, in Bandra police station.
Both Major Iqbal and Major Pasha are shown as wanted accused in the charge sheet filed by the city police's crime branch in the case.
Dr Kakodkar's strategic stubbornness ultimately got India what it wanted though the negotiations with the US went to the wire, notes Shivanand Kanavi.
The RBI governor says, Mahatma Gandhi is the only dignitary which can be featured on rupee notes.
'The anti-India biases of the Western elite can be attributed to the unease these privileged nations feel at the rise of Asian nations like India and China.' 'But what ought to shock all right-thinking Indians is that many of our own countrymen/women have joined this chorus,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Police has released the sketch of one of the suspected terrorists who was spotted by the school children in Uran.
'ISRO facilities are very expensive and any damage caused by these start-ups can create havoc to our space programme.'
There have been more than 49,000 fire incidents in Mumbai in the last one decade, killing over 600 people, the Maharashtra government had told the assembly in November 2018.
Modi praised the contribution of nuclear scientists in the successful implementation of India's three-stage nuclear programme.
'The INS Vishal -- a 65,000 tonne giant with 54 aircraft, including fighters, electronic warfare aircraft, airborne command posts and anti-submarine helicopters -- can both protect and dominate,' says Ajai Shukla.
Mumbai is witnessing some big-ticket investments in bungalows by the city's billionaires.
Indians are welcome to study and work in Great Britain, says UK's Minister for Science and Universities Jo Johnson.
T N Seshan believed that toughness at every level is needed to keep the flock under him strictly duty bound, recalls Dr K S Parthasarathy, former secretary, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.
After some Governors, it was the turn of Vice-Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority M Shashidhar Reddy and five of its members to resign after the new government asked them to quit their posts.
'This is the beginning of a big campaign which may last a hundred years of trying to understand the human body in detail.'
The reactor will start its initial production of 400 MW electricity within 20 days, Union Minister V Narayanasamy said.
The entire area has been cordoned off and National Disaster Management Authority has also been informed about the incident.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday arrived in Ulan Bator on his historic visit to Mongolia to hold talks with the country's leadership to bolster economic and trade cooperation, including in transport, highways and energy sectors.
A 32-year-old marketing executive was killed by a speeding Mercedes driven by a man in a suspected inebriated state in the posh Civil Lines area of north Delhi, police said on Tuesday.
'His contributions in setting up transparent precedents of governance are still basically intact despite the cynicism of several of his successors,' notes Jamini Bhagwati.
The navy, police, the anti-terror squad and the army are involved in a massive search operation. Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore reports
Taking heed of the lapses, the Additional Commissioner of Police (crime) KMM Prasanna has issued a circular, advising its men to follow legal procedures while probing accident cases to avoid situations like the Salman Khan case.
