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  Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai joins Twitter

  World | July 08, 2017 14:10 IST

  19-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 | October 14, 2016 12:59 IST

  Bob 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 | July 07, 2016 12:51 IST

  government’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 | July 03, 2016 11:46 IST

  Los 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 | November 03, 2015 15:48 IST

  New 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 | October 02, 2015 21:46 IST

  New 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 | January 24, 2015 20:34 IST

  Jaipur: 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 | November 20, 2014 7:03 IST

  London: 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 | November 12, 2014 19:10 IST

  Nay 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

  Politics | November 08, 2014 20:16 IST

  New 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 | October 13, 2014 17:28 IST

  Chennai: 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 | April 18, 2014 13:25 IST

  Mexico 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 | November 18, 2013 10:25 IST

  London: 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 | December 28, 2012 14:53 IST

  Yangon, 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 | July 09, 2012 12:25 IST

  Islamabad, 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 | June 25, 2012 16:31 IST

  Jerusalem, 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 | December 27, 2011 16:23 IST

  New 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 | June 22, 2011 19:06 IST

  Yangon, 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 | December 10, 2010 20:58 IST

  Dharamsala, 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