Nobel Laureate
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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai joins Twitter
World | Jul 08, 2017, 02:10 PM IST19-year-old Malala sent her first tweets on Friday using the Twitter handle @Malala, the same day she finished school, which she said was a "bittersweet" moment.
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Writer or musician? 10 best lyrics of Bob Dylan, the rock star who won the Nobel for Literature
Hollywood | Oct 14, 2016, 12:59 PM ISTBob Dylan is a man of many talents; he is a songwriter, singer, artist and writer. The announcement of his felicitation with Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday added to his success streak. Bob being conferred
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JNU row, crackdown on NGOs have hurt India’s image abroad: Nobel laureate Stiglitz
India | Jul 07, 2016, 12:51 PM ISTgovernment’s crackdown on Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) and its harassment of students has hampered India’s image internationally, noted economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz has said
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Over 100 Nobel laureates in an open letter urged Greenpeace to end GMO opposition
World | Jul 03, 2016, 11:46 AM ISTLos Banos: Over 100 living Nobel laureates have recently signed an open letter which has demanded international environmental group Greenpeace to stop campaigning against genetically modified crops, particularly one called Golden Rice. They have
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PM Modi should come forward to save Indian childhood:Kailash Satyarthi
India | Nov 03, 2015, 03:48 PM ISTNew Delhi: It's very rare that a person's name becomes synonymous with a noble cause across the world. Kailash Satyarthi is one such name. The moment one mentions ‘child rights', the face that immediately strikes
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1997 suit being pursued against me aggressively: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi
India | Oct 02, 2015, 09:46 PM ISTNew Delhi: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi has claimed in a Delhi court that the trustees of a charitable trust have "suddenly" and "aggressively" started pursuing a 1997 suit against him relating to alleged misappropriation of
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My mother had asked me to leave India to Indians, says Naipaul
India | Jan 24, 2015, 08:34 PM ISTJaipur: After Nobel Laureate V S Naipaul penned books on India with titles such as “An Area of Darkness” and “A Wounded Civilisation,” his mother asked him to leave India and write on other subjects,
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Satyarthi launches campaign in UK to end child slavery
World | Nov 20, 2014, 07:03 AM ISTLondon: Terming slavery and child trafficking the "biggest scandal of our times", Indian Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi today launched a new campaign here to end the menace posed by the trafficking "mafia".The 60-year-old campaigner behind
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PM Modi meets Myanmar pro-democracy icon Suu Kyi
World | Nov 12, 2014, 07:10 PM ISTNay Pyi Taw: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today had a meeting with Nobel laureate and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in his first interaction with the pro-democracy icon.The meeting at the Presidential Suite
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PM Narendra Modi to meet Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar
National | Nov 08, 2014, 08:16 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi among other leaders on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asian summits in Myanmar next week in his first interaction
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TN Chief Minister lauds Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi
India | Oct 13, 2014, 05:28 PM ISTChennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam today lauded child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi, who together with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai were announced as recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014. “It gives me immense
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87
World | Apr 18, 2014, 01:25 PM ISTMexico City: Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the world that set his mind churning as a child growing up on Colombia's Caribbean coast.One of
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Nobel laureate author Doris Lessing dies at 94
World | Nov 18, 2013, 10:25 AM ISTLondon: British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died Sunday here at her home. She was 94.She "passed away peacefully at her London home in the early hours of this morning", reported BBC citing a statement
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Sweater knit by Suu Kyi sells for $49K
World | Dec 28, 2012, 02:53 PM ISTYangon, Dec 28 : A hand-knit woolen sweater made by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has sold at an auction in Myanmar for $49,000.A Myanmar-based radio station won a bidding war for the sweater
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Pakistan shuns physicist Abdus Salam, who had predicted God particle
World | Jul 09, 2012, 12:25 PM ISTIslamabad, Jul 9: The pioneering work of Abdus Salam, Pakistan's only Nobel laureate, helped lead to the apparent discovery of the subatomic "God particle" last week.But the late physicist is no hero at home, where
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Israel's University pays tribute to Tagore on his 150th birth anniversary
World | Jun 25, 2012, 04:31 PM ISTJerusalem, Jun 25: In the first such honour to an Indian in Israel, a bust of Rabindranath Tagore has been unveiled at the prestigious Hebrew University here to mark the 150th birth anniversary of the
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Jana Gana Mana Is 100 Years Old
India | Dec 27, 2011, 04:23 PM ISTNew Delhi, Dec 27: ‘Jana Gana Mana', the country's national anthem penned by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, turned 100 today as it was first sung on this day a century ago at the 1911 Calcutta
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Nirupama Rao Meets Aung San Suu Kyi
World | Jun 22, 2011, 07:06 PM ISTYangon, Jun 22: In the first high-level Indian contact with Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met the Nobel laureate here and both expressed a desire for the bilateral relationship
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Tibetans Condemn Imprisonment Of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
World | Dec 10, 2010, 08:58 PM ISTDharamsala, Dec 10: Condemning the imprisonment of Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, the Tibetan government-in-exile today said keeping a few individuals in prison cannot lock up their thoughts and aspirations. Celebrating the