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Niraj H. Tolia

Niraj H. Tolia is a structural biologist and malaria researcher who leads a vaccine design section at NIAID, after teaching at Washington University in St. Louis.

Niram (നിറം)

Niram (നിറം) is a 1999 Malayalam romantic comedy directed by Kamal, starring Kunchacko Boban and Shalini as childhood friends Aby and Sona, with music by Vidyasagar; a major 1999 hit remade in four languages.

Niram Marum Ulagil

Niram Marum Ulagil (நிறம் மாறும் உலகில்), also spelled Niram Maarum Ulagil, is a 2025 Tamil anthology drama directed by Britto JB, starring Bharathiraja, Natty, Rio Raj, Sandy, and Yogi Babu, released 7 March 2025.

NIRAMAI Health Analytix

NIRAMAI Health Analytix is a Bengaluru health technology company founded in 2016 by Geetha Manjunath and Nidhi Mathur that screens for breast cancer with Thermalytix, an AI analysis of thermal images.

Nirangal Moondru

Nirangal Moondru (நிறங்கள் மூன்று) is a 2024 Tamil hyperlink crime thriller by Karthick Naren starring Atharvaa, Sarathkumar, and Rahman, released 22 November 2024, rated 2.5/5 by major reviewers.

Niranjan Bhagat

Niranjan Bhagat (નિરંજન ભગત; 1926–2018) was an Indian poet and critic who wrote principally in Gujarati, known for urban, modernist poetry and the eight-volume critical work Swadhyaylok.

Niranjan Hiranandani (निरंजन हीरानंदानी)

Niranjan Hiranandani (निरंजन हीरानंदानी) is an Indian real estate developer who co-founded the Hiranandani Group with his brother Surendra in 1978 and built the Hiranandani Gardens township at Powai, Mumbai.

Niranjana Deva Tirtha

Niranjana Deva Tirtha, also written Niranjanadevteertha, was the 144th Shankaracharya of the Govardhan Matha at Puri, Odisha, from 1964 to 1992, and trained his successor Nischalananda Saraswati.

Nirao M. Shah

Nirao M. Shah is a neuroscientist who studies the neural circuits controlling social behavior, and a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Neurobiology at Stanford University.

Niraparib

Niraparib (Zejula; Akeega combination) is an oral PARP-1/PARP-2 inhibitor approved in 2017 as maintenance therapy for HRD-positive ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal cancer, and in 2025 with abiraterone for BRCA2-mutated prostate cancer.

Nirat

Nirat (นิราศ) is a genre of Thai poetry in which the poet narrates a journey and expresses longing for a beloved person or place left behind, exemplified by Sunthon Phu.

Nirat Mueang Klaeng

Nirat Mueang Klaeng (นิราศเมืองแกลง, "The Journey to Klaeng") is a Thai travel poem by Sunthorn Phu, written in klon octameter on a journey from Bangkok to Klaeng to visit his father.

Nirat Phu Khao Thong

Nirat Phu Khao Thong (นิราศภูเขาทอง) is a Thai nirat poem by Sunthorn Phu recounting a boat journey from Bangkok to worship the Golden Mount chedi at Ayutthaya.

Nirav Modi (नीरव मोदी)

Nirav Modi (नीरव मोदी) is an Indian diamond jeweler who is the subject of fraud proceedings related to Punjab National Bank, alongside his uncle Mehul Choksi, and has fought extradition from Britain since his 2019 arrest.

Nirav Ramesh Shah

Nirav Ramesh Shah is an American internist and health-system executive who led New York's Health Department, held Kaiser Permanente roles, and is a Senior Scholar at Stanford.

Nirav Shah

Nirav Shah (born 1974, Chennai) is an Indian cinematographer known for Dhoom 2, Billa, 2.0, and Super Deluxe; also refers to a Maine CDC director and other namesakes.

Nirbhay (निर्भय)

Nirbhay (निर्भय) is India's first indigenously developed long-range subsonic cruise missile, built by DRDO in Bengaluru. First flown in 2013, it suffered repeated test failures and never entered service.

Nirbhay Wadhwa (निर्भय वाधवा)

Nirbhay Wadhwa (निर्भय वाधवा), born 1987 in Jaipur, is an Indian TV and film actor who began as Dushasana in Mahabharat (2013) and is best known for repeatedly playing Hanuman, in Sankatmochan Mahabali Hanuman, Shrimad Ramayan, and Delhi Ramlila.

NIRCam

NIRCam, the Near-Infrared Camera, is the primary near-infrared imager on the James Webb Space Telescope, covering 0.6 to 5 microns and led by Marcia Rieke.

Niren Murthy

Niren Murthy is an American bioengineer and professor of bioengineering at UC Berkeley known for biodegradable polymers and lipid nanoparticles that deliver drugs and gene-editing machinery into cells.

Nirenberg and Matthaei experiment

The Nirenberg and Matthaei experiment was a 1961 NIH study showing that poly-U RNA directs phenylalanine synthesis, giving the first decoded word of the genetic code.

Nirendranath Chakraborty

Nirendranath Chakraborty (নীরেন্দ্রনাথ চক্রবর্তী, 1924–2018) was an Indian Bengali poet, novelist, and editor who won the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award for Ulanga Raja and wrote the widely quoted poem "Kolkatar Jishu".

Nirgal Vallis

Nirgal Vallis, a roughly 700 km ancient river valley network in Mars' southern hemisphere, named from the Babylonian word for Mars; amphitheatre-headed, once water-filled, Hesperian-aged, now tectonically segmented into closed basins.

Nirguna bhakti

Nirguna bhakti (निर्गुण भक्ति) is devotion to a formless, attributeless God, contrasted with saguna bhakti, and expressed in Sant poetry by Kabir, Raidas, Dadu Dayal, and Guru Nanak.

Nirgundi ghrta

Nirgundi ghrta (Nirguṇḍī ghṛta, AFI000188) is an Ayurvedic medicated ghee of cow's clarified butter and Vitex negundo whole plant, dosed 12 g, indicated for kṣata kṣīṇa, cough, and Rajayakshma (tuberculosis), now under pharmaceutico-analytical and anti-mycobacterial study.

NIRISS

NIRISS (Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph) is a near-infrared camera and slitless spectrograph on the James Webb Space Telescope, provided by the Canadian Space Agency and used to observe exoplanets, brown dwarfs, and distant galaxies.

Nirit Dudovich

Nirit Dudovich (נירית דודוביץ) is an Israeli physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies attosecond science, measuring electron motion with ultra-short laser pulses.

Nirjharer Swapnabhanga

Nirjharer Swapnabhanga (নির্ঝরের স্বপ্নভঙ্গ, "The Awakening of the Waterfall") is an 1882 Bengali poem by Rabindranath Tagore, born of a mystical experience in Calcutta and regarded as inaugurating his mature poetic career.

Nirma (નિર્મા)

Nirma (નિર્મા) is an Ahmedabad-based Indian group of consumer products and industrial chemicals, founded by Karsanbhai Patel in 1969, whose low-priced detergent overtook Unilever's Surf in the 1980s.

Nirmal Jain

Nirmal Bhanwarlal Jain (निर्मल जैन) is an Indian first-generation entrepreneur who founded the IIFL financial services group in 1995 and is managing director of IIFL Finance.