{"id":375121,"date":"2020-09-25T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375121"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T03:55:56","slug":"nuclear-scientist-former-chairman-of-aec-sekhar-basu-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nuclear-scientist-former-chairman-of-aec-sekhar-basu-dies-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear scientist, former chairman of AEC, Sekhar Basu dies of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran atomic scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr Sekhar Basu succumbed to Covid-19 early on Thursday at a private hospital here, a health department official said. <\/p>\n<p>He breathed his last just three days after turning 68. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr Basu was suffering from Covid-19 and other kidney ailments. He died at 4.50 am,&#8221; the official told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>A mechanical engineer, Dr Basu is revered for his contributions to the country&#8217;s atomic energy programme. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>He had also pioneered the highly complex reactor for India&#8217;s first nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mourned the demise of Dr Basu and extended her condolences to his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran atomic scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr Sekhar Basu succumbed to Covid-19 early on Thursday at a private hospital here, a health department official said. He breathed his last just three days after turning 68. &#8220;Dr Basu was suffering from Covid-19 and other kidney ailments. He died at 4.50 am,&#8221; the official told PTI. A mechanical engineer, Dr Basu is revered for his contributions to the country&#8217;s atomic energy programme. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2014. He had also pioneered the highly complex reactor for India&#8217;s first nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}