Nobel Peace Prize
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US President Donald Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2021
World | Sep 09, 2020, 03:42 PM ISTUS President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2021. According to reports, he was nominated by Christian Tybring-Gjedde who is a member of the Norwegian Parliament. Gjedde has praised Trump for his efforts towards resolving conflicts worldwide.
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EXPLAINED: Why Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed Ali has got Nobel Peace Prize
Fyi | Oct 11, 2019, 04:26 PM ISTEthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2019, defeating Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali as the Nobel Peace Prize winner 2019 for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation. The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 award has gone to the Ethiopian Prime Minister particularly for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.
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Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace Prize 2019
World | Oct 11, 2019, 03:11 PM ISTThe 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his efforts to "achieve peace and international cooperation" with Eritrea last year, ending a 20-year military stalemate following their 1998-2000 border war, it was announced on Friday.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg wins Alternative Nobel
World | Sep 25, 2019, 01:52 PM ISTThunberg is being recognized “for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts,” the prize foundation said.
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US President Trump claims Japan’s PM nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize
World | Feb 16, 2019, 08:13 AM IST“I’ll probably never get it, but that’s OK,” Trump said. “They gave it to Obama. He didn’t even know what he got it for.”
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Meet Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, who won Nobel Peace Prize 2018
World | Oct 06, 2018, 02:40 PM ISTThe duo received the award for their "effort to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict", Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Nobel Committee, announced at a press conference in the Norweigan capital, Oslo, on Friday.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2018: Activists Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad win top honour
World | Oct 05, 2018, 03:03 PM ISTThe duo received the award for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict".
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Tamil Nadu BJP chief 'nominates' PM Modi for Nobel Peace Prize
India | Sep 24, 2018, 10:35 PM ISTHer husband, Professor Dr P Soundarajan, Head of Department and Senior Consultant in Nephrology at a private university, has also nominated Modi for Nobel, a press release from the state BJP chief's office said.
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President Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize, says South Korean President Moon Jae-in
World | May 02, 2018, 12:03 PM ISTPresident Moon Jae-in on Tuesday suggested that President Trump should win the Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts to unify the North and South Koreas.
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See no reason for Grameen Bank operations in India: Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus
Business | Nov 02, 2017, 01:54 PM ISTBangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus said he sees no reason for his Grameen Bank to set up operations in India as the country has several successful microcredit organisations.
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Pak court sentences four to 25 years for attack on Malala
World | Apr 30, 2015, 04:47 PM ISTIslamabad: Four Pakistani Taliban militants were today sentenced to 25 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court for their role in the 2012 attack on Malala Yousafzai, the teenage child rights activist who last year
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Astronomer names asteroid after Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala
World | Apr 11, 2015, 11:32 AM ISTIslamabad: The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and girls' education campaigner Malala Yousafzai now has an asteroid named after her, media reported.Amy Mainzer, astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, named Asteroid 316201 after
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Posthumous Nelson Mandela memoir to be published in 2016
World | Mar 24, 2015, 08:09 AM ISTLondon:A posthumous memoir by Nelson Mandela, recounting his time as South Africa's first democratically elected president, is scheduled to be published around the world next year.Pan Macmillan said Tuesday that it will publish the sequel
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Obama, Dalai Lama to appear in public; move set to rile China
World | Feb 01, 2015, 04:09 PM ISTWashington: US President Barack Obama will appear at a high-profile public event here this week that the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is also attending, a move that is set to anger China.Obama will
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Speak out against child exploitation, says Satyarthi
India | Jan 09, 2015, 08:06 AM ISTNew Delhi: Dedicating his medal to all Indians, the country's newest Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi Thursday urged them to fight together against child labour and speak out against their exploitation - a responsibility that came
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Kailash Satyarthi to visit Taiwan from January 14-18
India | Jan 08, 2015, 02:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi will visit Taiwan Jan 14-18, a statement said on Thursday.Satyarthi, who founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan (save childhood movement), and his wife, will visit Taiwan on the invitation of its
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Satyarthi tells kids to be candles which light up the world
India | Jan 05, 2015, 07:04 AM ISTMumbai: Nobel Prize winning child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi on Sunday said that it is everybody's job to end child labour, and asked kids to be "candles which light up the world"."Let us decide never
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Resolve to protect children from violence in 2015: Satyarthi
India | Dec 31, 2014, 06:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: In his New Year message, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi today called for concerted efforts to protect children from all types of exploitation.Resolving to uphold the rights of every child, Satyarthi said
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Satyarthi calls for Nepal Constitution to protect child rights
World | Dec 21, 2014, 09:32 PM ISTKathmandu: Child rights activist and Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi today appealed to Nepal's political parties to draft a constitution that would ensure the welfare of children.Satyarthi who met Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav, Prime
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Satyarthi appeals to terrorist groups to spare children
India | Dec 18, 2014, 11:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: Terming the militant attack on a Peshawar school as an “act of sin”, Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi today appealed to the terrorist groups to spare children and asked the global community