The pilot of a hot-air balloon that crashed in United Arab Emirates killing two people including an Indian, has been sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay 400,000 dirhams ($108,932.46) in blood money, court officials have said. Polish pilot Piotr Gorny was in charge of the balloon on April 25 when it undertook an emergency landing approximately 50 km outside Al Ain near Abu Dhabi.
Balasubramanian, 50, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Cambridge University, has been recognised for his work as a co-inventor of Next Generation DNA sequencing, described as the most transformational advance in biology and medicine for decades.
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