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Nobel for Chemistry

STOCKHOLM: Egyptian-born scientist Ahmed Ezewail of the California Institute of Technology won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry while Dutch scientists Gerardus 8216;T Hooft and Martinus J G Veltman bagged the prize for Physics on Tuesday. Zewail won the prize for demonstrating that a rapid laser technique can observe the motion of atoms in a molecule during a reaction.

HC restrains TRAI

NEW DELHI: In a major blow to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI a division benchof the Delhi HC on Tuesday held that the regulatory body did not have powers to give directions to government on issuing licenses to basic telecom service providers. The HC also restrained TRAI from proceeding further against MTNL chief on issue of launch of mobile telephone services in the Capital recently.