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08 Oct 2009
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Indian shares Chemistry Nobel with 2 others
07 Oct 2009
Senior Cambridge scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan will share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas E Steitz of the US and Ada E Yonath of Israel
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Gas regulator V K Sibal fears for his life in Ambani war
07 Oct 2009
Director-general hydrocarbons V K Sibal has asked the central government for protection fearing for his life in the ongoing war between the Ambani bothers
Frito-Lay promotes Ann Mukherjee to CMO
07 Oct 2009
N Chandrasekaran takes over as CEO of TCS
06 Oct 2009
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Australian-American-British trio share Nobel for medicine
05 Oct 2009
Elizabeth H Blackburn, Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak have jointly won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work on `how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
Pearl Uppal, sales director at Yahoo! India quits, Namit Pandey appointed as business head
01 Oct 2009
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ElBaradei gets Indira prize, PM lauds his role in nuclear deal
30 Sep 2009
Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
Michael Smith becomes president of Forbes.com
29 Sep 2009
INS makes four key appointments
25 Sep 2009
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