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  India doesn't need nuclear tests again; got desired results from 1998 trials: former AEC chief

  India | July 17, 2019 19:26 IST

  India does not need to conduct more nuclear trials as it achieved the desired results from the 1998 tests at Pokhran, former Atomic Energy Commission chairman R Chidambaram said on Wednesday. 

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  Former AEC Chief P K Iyengar Dead

  India | December 21, 2011 22:41 IST

  Mumbai, Dec 21: Former Atomic Energy Commission chairman P K Iyengar, who played an important role in the country's first nuclear explosion in 1974, died here this afternoon following a brief illness. He was 80."The