Nobel Prize
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Three held for theft at Kailash Satyarthi's house; Nobel Prize replica recovered
India | Feb 12, 2017, 11:15 AM ISTThe Delhi Police has arrested three people in connection with the theft at Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi's house and recovered the stolen items.
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Bob Dylan takes down mention of Nobel Prize from website
World | Oct 21, 2016, 09:35 PM ISTIn case you are scrolling down the website of the mercurial music legend Bob Dylan, be prepared to not find the words - “winner of the Nobel prize in literature” – as they have been
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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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Legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan gets 2016 Nobel in Literature
World | Oct 13, 2016, 05:45 PM ISTIn a development that should bring cheer to music fans of American singer-songwriter, artist and writer Bob Dylan has been declared the recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic
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Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom take home Nobel Economics Prize
World | Oct 10, 2016, 04:48 PM ISTBritish-American economist Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland were today named the winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on the contract theory. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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Amid fears of resurgent civil war, Nobel Peace Prize for Colombian President Manuel Santos
World | Oct 07, 2016, 05:25 PM ISTOwing up to his efforts in bringing a 50-year-long civil war in the South American nation to an end, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was today awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Santos managed to conclude
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Three win 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing molecular machines
World | Oct 05, 2016, 04:36 PM ISTThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard "Ben" Feringa as winners of the prestigious 2016 Nobel prize in the field of chemistry. The award
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British trio David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz win 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
World | Oct 04, 2016, 04:45 PM ISTDavid Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, all three physicists from the United Kingdom, have won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics. The British-born scientists have been selected for work that "revealed the secrets
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Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel Prize in medicine for work on autophagy
World | Oct 03, 2016, 04:02 PM ISTJapanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering the mechanisms of autophagy.
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Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, dies at 87
World | Jul 03, 2016, 10:08 AM ISTNew York:Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as one of the world’s foremost witnesses and humanitarians,
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Mother Teresa's sainthood and Nobel Prize deeply flawed, says author Aroup Chatterjee
India | Jun 15, 2016, 05:13 PM ISTNew Delhi: Mother Teresa's planned sainthood is in an "uncharted" place as the miracle attributed to her was denied by the so-called cured person, says Britain-based author Aroup Chatterjee, whose work on the Albanian-born nun
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Donald Trump nominated for Nobel peace Prize
World | Feb 04, 2016, 05:03 PM ISTOslo: After his surprise defeat in hands of rival Ted Cruz in the closely followed Iowa Caucus elections, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump finally has some good news.The billionaire business magnate has reportedly made it onto
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Vladimir Putin moots Nobel Peace Prize for Sepp Blatter
World | Dec 17, 2015, 07:08 PM ISTMoscow: FIFA president Sepp Blatter has done a great deal to develop football and co-operation between peoples and nations and, therefore, deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.Blatter is currently
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Haven't got Nobel Prize because I am black, says Baba Ramdev
India | Nov 07, 2015, 11:27 PM ISTNew Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, in a bizarre statement, alleged that he was denied a Nobel Prize because he is black. According to media reports, Ramdev, during a yoga event in Ranchi, stated that he
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Scottish economist Angus Deaton wins Nobel economics prize
World | Oct 12, 2015, 05:08 PM ISTStockholm (AP): Scottish economist Angus Deaton has won the Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday.Deaton, who was born in
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Tunisian democracy group wins 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
World | Oct 09, 2015, 08:59 PM ISTOslo: A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement.The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet “for its
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Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus wins Nobel literature prize
World | Oct 08, 2015, 05:00 PM ISTStockholm: Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for works that the prize judges called "a monument to suffering and courage."Alexievich, 67, used the skills of a journalist to create literature
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Scientists win Nobel chemistry award for work on DNA repair
World | Oct 07, 2015, 05:21 PM ISTStockholm: Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and US-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in chemistry today for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair."The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work "has provided
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Kajita, McDonald win Nobel physics prize
World | Oct 06, 2015, 04:30 PM ISTStockholm: Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada have won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the two researchers had made key
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Controversial Nobel Prize winners
World | Oct 06, 2015, 04:15 PM ISTStockholm (AP): It's just a prize, right? Maybe so, but the Nobel Prizes have a way of sparking ferocious debate about whether the winners were worthy or whether the judges' decisions were politically biased.Prize founder