Nobel Laureate
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 announcement date and time, and how to watch LIVE
World | Oct 10, 2025, 07:25 AM ISTThe Nobel Peace Prize 2025 will be announced on Friday. The announcement will be made by Jorgen Watner Frydness, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her 'intense poetic prose'
World | Oct 10, 2024, 06:05 PM ISTHan Kang is a distinguished author in South Korea who has previously won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for "The Vegetarian". She comes from a literary background as her father was also a reputed novelist and began her career in 1993 with a short story collection.
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Interesting facts about John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton, who won Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
Technology | Oct 09, 2024, 12:00 PM ISTJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for their foundational discoveries and inventions that enabled machine learning with artificial neural networks. Here are some interesting facts about them.
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Malala pens 'sweet' story about her childhood friend and memory sparked by Taylor Swift's music
World | Aug 19, 2024, 03:20 PM ISTEven during the Eras Tour, Malala continued her advocacy by highlighting that the Taliban had reclaimed control in Afghanistan. "Once more, music is silenced in the streets, and girls and women are excluded from education, employment, and public life," she stressed.
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Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, ex-PM Khaleda Zia's son to arrive in Bangladesh as violence continues
World | Aug 07, 2024, 11:12 AM ISTBangladesh is currently preparing for the formation of an interim government after violent protests over job quotas escalated into an anti-government unrest, compelling Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee. Former PM Khaleda Zia has been freed and Yunus was chosen as the head of the interim government.
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to become chief adviser of interim Bangladesh government | Who is he?
World | Aug 06, 2024, 03:53 PM ISTDr Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate widely known for his Grameen Bank initiative that introduced Bangladesh to microcredit, is a fierce Hasina critic who is facing several criminal cases. He called Hasina's resignation on Monday as a "second liberation" for the country.
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Austrian Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger wants THIS feature of PM Modi's in other world leaders
World | Jul 10, 2024, 10:38 PM ISTPM Modi, during his visit to Austria, invited its businesses to become part of India's stellar growth story by leveraging high-quality and cost-effective manufacturing under the 'Make in India' programme for domestic and international markets.
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Bangladesh: Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus sentenced to 6-month jail
World | Jan 01, 2024, 06:51 PM ISTIn August last year, more than 170 global leaders and Nobel laureates sent an open letter to Prime Minister Hasina urging her to suspend legal proceedings against Yunus. The signatories included ex-US President Barack Obama, ex-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and more than 100 Nobel laureates.
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After four-year break, Malala Yousafzai arrives in Pakistan to meet flood-hit victims
World | Oct 11, 2022, 05:02 PM ISTMalala Visits Home: More than 1,700 people were killed, 33 million displaced and a third of the country was submerged under water in the worst floods to hit Pakistan, brought about by unprecedented rains since mid-June.
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Nobel Prize 2022: 3 chemists who made molecules 'click' awarded
World | Dec 16, 2022, 12:47 PM ISTNobel Prize 2022: Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions, which are used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and create materials that are tailored to a specific purpose.
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Nobel prize: Swedish scientist Svante Paabo gets Nobel Prize in medicine
World | Dec 16, 2022, 12:50 PM ISTNobel prize winner: Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee, announced the winner Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Lockdown has impeded basic learning: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee
India | Feb 10, 2022, 07:45 AM ISTNobel laureate also underscored the need to curtail curriculum once the classes resume at the junior level and help children make up for the lost time.
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Centre should focus on free spending policies than balancing budget: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee
India | Aug 05, 2021, 06:09 PM ISTBanerjee, who heads West Bengal's Global Advisory Board (GAB) and advises the state government on issues related to the pandemic, said that boosting the state’s economy is directly related to the revival of the country's economy as it is under stress due to the ongoing pandemic situation.
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'Don't think so': Abhijit Banerjee says wouldn't have won Nobel Prize living in India
India | Jan 27, 2020, 08:55 AM ISTNobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee feels that he wouldn't have won the nobel prize if he was living in India. The 58-year-old India-born American economist was speaking at a session at Jaipur Literature Festival when he was asked if he could have won the Nobel based in India.
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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee on why there shouldn't be anymore cuts in corporate tax & more
Business | Jan 04, 2020, 02:02 PM ISTTalking about the economic slowdown in India, Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee said that it was important that there were no more cuts in corporate taxes.
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Proud of his accomplishments: PM Modi after meeting Abhijit Banerjee
India | Oct 22, 2019, 01:05 PM ISTIndian-origin economist Abhijit Banerjee was awarded the Nobel prize for his efforts to alleviate global poverty along with wife, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer.
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ISRO will fix moon lander problem: Nobel laureate Serge Haroche
India | Sep 11, 2019, 04:10 PM ISTScience poses surprises - sometimes failures and sometimes successes, according to Nobel laureate Serge Haroche, who said on Wednesday that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists will certainly try to fix the problem with India's first moon lander.
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Nobel Laureate for Literature VS Naipaul dies; President Kovind offers condolences
India | Aug 12, 2018, 08:59 AM ISTIn addition to the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, VS Naipaul also won the Booker Prize in 1971, and was considered one of the most important writers in the English language of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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India achieved as much economic progress in last 30 years as Britain did in 150: Paul Krugman
India | Mar 17, 2018, 07:57 PM ISTIndia has become a much "better place to do business" than it was earlier, though the bureaucratic obstacles have not gone away completely but reduced enormously.
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Malala Day: Nobel Prize laureate turns 20 today: Here are some facts about her extraordinary life
People | Jul 12, 2017, 12:47 PM ISTMalala Yousafzai, one of the bravest women mankind has ever seen, turns 20.