US Ambassador designate to India Sergio Gor on Monday announced during his address after assuming charge that India will be invited to join the US-led PaxSilica group of nations as a full member next month. He said he will present his credentials to the President of India this week. Speaking at the event, Ambassador Gor said the United States has launched a new strategic initiative aimed at strengthening the global silicon and semiconductor supply chain.
A 54-year-old man was killed after a Mercedes-Benz car allegedly driven by the 17-year-old son of an Additional District Judge rammed into his scooter in Kochi in the early hours of Sunday, police said. The accident occurred near Cheranelloor between 2 am and 3 am.
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Ashoke Sen is the first Indian physicist to get the Oskar Klein Medal, the previous recipients include Stephen Hawking, Peter Higgs and Kip Thorne. Sen, an ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS)-Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bengaluru, is widely regarded as an architect of modern string theory. The theory postulates that the elementary constituents of matter are tiny one-dimensional, string-like objects instead of point particles. It thus tries to put forth a unifying description for matter and forces between them. Established in 1988 and named after the Swedish theoretical physicist Oskar Klein, the medal is awarded annually by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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