draft, but it is in the male name and gender assigned to her at birth. What’s more, she is shown as being part of the district in which she does not live anymore.

The transgender woman, who did not wish to be named, was born in Dhubri district to a Muslim family and left home as a teenager. However, her father submitted her documents during the recent NRC updation drive.

While the claims, objections and corrections procedure regarding the final NRC draft, released on July 30, will begin in August, there is no plan in place for transgender persons, whose chosen name and gender remain excluded from the draft.

The claims/objections procedure stipulates that applicants are only allowed to submit their claims at the seva kendras (service centre) where their applicationResearcher points to suppression of evidence on radiation effects by 1946 Nobel Laureate

September 20, 2011

University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental toxicologist Edward Calabrese, whose career research shows that low doses of some chemicals and radiation are benign or even helpful, says he has uncovered evidence that one of the fathers of radiation genetics, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Muller, knowingly lied when he claimed in 1946 that there is no safe level of radiation exposure.

Calabrese's interpretation of this history is supported by letters and other materials he has retrieved, many from formerly classified files. He published key excerpts this month in Archives of Toxicology and Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis.

Muller was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery that X-rays induce genetic mutations. This helped him call attention