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Malala receives offer to study at UK university

London: Nobel Peace Prize winner and education activist Malala Yousafzai has received an offer to study at a British university after applying to Oxford. Yousafzai made the announcement at an education conference in Birmingham. She said she received an offer, conditional of achieving three As in her A-Levels, to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), reported […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Frenchman Tirole wins Nobel economics prize

French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for research on market power and regulation

  • Saturday, 26 June 2021
3 win Nobel for giving microscope sharper vision

Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing new methods that let microscopes see finer details than they could before

  • Saturday, 26 June 2021
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Indian journalist Ravish Kumar wins 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award

Manila: Senior Indian journalist Ravish Kumar on Friday was awarded this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award, regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize. Kumar, 44, who is NDTV India’s senior executive editor is one of India’s most influential TV journalists, the award citation by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said. He is among five […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison dies

Washington: Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison has died “following a short illness”, her family members said. She was 88. Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, died on Monday night. The author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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3 Win Nobel Prize In Physics For Discoveries In Cosmology

Stockholm: Three scientists won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved, and the Earth’s place in it. The prize was given to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology,” and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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3 win Nobel in Chemistry for work on lithium-ion batteries

Stockholm: Three scientists on Wednesday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries, which have reshaped energy storage and transformed cars, mobile phones and many other devices in an increasingly portable and electronic world. The prize went to John B Goodenough of the University of Texas; M […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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From Mutton Kebab To Payesh, Abhijit Banerjee's Mother Plans Big For Son

Kolkata: Waiting eagerly for her son to come home after winning the Nobel, Economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee’s mother says it is his late father’s rationality and sobriety which has rubbed off on his son making him so balanced and matured in handling criticism as also fame. An award like Nobel, she says, is recognition for […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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A Nobel Ceremony: Abhijit, Wife Esther Woo Netizens In Ethnic Wear

Stockholm: Indian-American economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, and his French-American wife Esther Duflo were conferred the Nobel Prize for Economics in Sweden here, alongside their American colleague Michael Kremer. Unlike other laureates, who arrived in tuxedos and fancy Red Carpet dresses, the couple glorified the prestigious occasion in traditional Indian attire. Abhijit wore a black bandhgala […]

  • Thursday, 22 April 2021
2020 Nobel Prize For Economics Awarded To 2 Stanford Economists For Auction Theory
2020 Nobel Prize For Economics Awarded To 2 Stanford Economists For Auction Theory

Stockholm: Two American economists won the Nobel Prize on Monday for improving the theory of how auctions work and inventing new and better auction formats that are now woven into many parts of the economy. The discoveries of Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson have benefitted sellers, buyers and taxpayers around the world, the […]

  • Sunday, 11 April 2021
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