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His ideas were "received with rapture" by the prime minister's secretary PN Dhar.

Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations.

PNe live for only a few tens of thousands of years compared to their host stars, which can take billions of years before they pass through the PN phase on the way to becoming "white dwarfs."

Opposition leader Hamzah Zainuddin claimed this week that Malays now viewed the PN bloc as their preferred political vehicle after his bloc garnered a landslide by-election victory on Saturday.

PN Bhagwati, a former chief justice who heard the pollution cases and was instrumental in expanding the court's role into policy-making, once said that "judicial activism" was "inevitable".