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Indian Dynasty saga strikes a chord with US viewers
What a pity for the beleaguered Congress party that viewers of the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) will not be voting in the forthcoming Indian general elections. On Wednesday night, the television channel broadcast a riveting three-hour documentary on the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty which had viewers thoroughly rivetted.
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Seed's clones will be `human' and not a master race
The Scottish scientists who created Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult animal, on Wednesday condemned as "grossly unethical" an American physicist's plans to extend the technique to humans. They said that human clones would suffer unacceptable levels of still-births, infant mortality, cancer and possibly premature ageing.
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`Fifth force' exists, say Indian astrophysicists
Two Indian astrophysicists -- Navin K Shaw and Pankaj N Jain -- have suggested the existence of a fifth force, the Stellar Repulsion Force (SRF). They aver that it is this force that governs the universe and that it could be utilised to prolong the life of orbiting satellites providing a quantum jump to space programme technologies.
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Indian diamonds' destiny: A heritage meant for elsewhere
Heritage sometimes takes a strange route. You trace the journey of the most famous Indian diamond, Kohinoor, and reach the British Crown. So, where do you look for the ancient diamonds that disappeared from Srirangam in Tamil Nadu? Move to Moscow, there's more.
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