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TopicHomi J Bhabha

Topic: Homi J Bhabha

Mystery of 1966 Air India crash, that killed nuclear pioneer Bhabha, is unravelling bit by bit

Air India 101 crashed at Mont Blanc, at nearly the same spot as Air India 245 in 1950. Since the ’80s, big discoveries & bigger conspiracy theories have emerged.

Dr Homi J Bhabha, the man who set India on its path as a nuclear power

Known as the ‘father of the Indian nuclear programme’, Dr Homi J. Bhabha was born on 30 October 1909. ThePrint remembers him on his 109th birth anniversary.

Sabotage or accident? The theories about how India lost nuclear energy pioneer Homi Bhabha

Bhabha died on this day in 1966, 3 months after he said India could make an atom bomb in 18 months. Was it sabotage? Or just an accident?

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Why sharp selloff in Japanese bonds has a message for India’s budget

Although its overall GDP will soon be bigger than Japan’s, on a per-capita basis India is still 12 times poorer.

India’s looking at 14 million metric tonnes of e-waste by 2030, recycling can’t keep up—NITI Aayog

Country's used lithium-ion battery problem is also set to grow sharply in next decade. India 3rd largest e-waste producer with 7% global share but currently recycles only about 10% of it.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.