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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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