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The BBC’s website is accessible once again in China after being blocked for several days.
The blackout coincided with the award ceremony for this year’s...
made popular Dec 13 2010
The Noble prize for literature is announced tomorrow...
Syrian poet Adonis (real name Ali Ahmad Sa’id) is widely considered to be on the short list for tomorrow’s...
made popular Oct 8 2010
Next year’s Nobel Peace Prize goes to…?
Yesterday I had occasion to attend a seminar on South Asia at Washington DC. At the end, I requested that I be permitted to...
made popular Oct 19 2009
When Nobel committee last year selected Mr. Ahtisaari – an unofficial spokesperson of US State department and Nato – as Nobel prize Peace laureate this years...
made popular Oct 14 2009
Even the believers were beginning to say that President Obama needed to put a win on the board. He went to Copenhagen and came back with a loss. His Chicago lost to Rio...
made popular Oct 10 2009
US president Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between...
made popular Oct 10 2009
President Barack Obama on Friday won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between...
made popular Oct 9 2009
Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that “with the concentration of poetry and the...
made popular Oct 8 2009
Nobel Prize for an Indian?
I was walking past the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus at Boston two days ago. I met an Indian student at the Sloan School - a...
made popular Oct 8 2009
This year’s Nobel prize for medicine goes to the three US researchers who discovered how the body protects the chromosomes housing vital genetic code.
Elizabeth...
made popular Oct 5 2009
(Please upload under this caption a bright photo of President Obama)
Recently, I was struck with wonder to note a remark: “Obama the Gambler”, the title of an...
made popular Sep 30 2009
PAUL KRUGMAN, the winner of this year’s Nobel prize in economics, put his finger on something in the 1990s when he identified, and then ridiculed, the notion that a...
made popular Dec 10 2008
Nobel Prize-winning Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri and musician Sir Paul McCartney have teamed up to urge people to become vegetarian
to save the planet from the...
made popular Nov 29 2008
Few people probably know that the latest Nobel Prize winner for Economics, Paul Krugman, actually wrote a book on the Philippines. The most important weakness of that...
made popular Oct 20 2008
In a not so surprising announcement - going by the Nobel Academy’s notoriety for secrecy - this year’s Nobel Literature Prize has gone to Frenchman...
made popular Oct 9 2008
Both the UN, human rights organizations and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee should surely consider this ultimate Israeli achievement of gently dispersing the...
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Novelist, Teacher and Essayist, Chinua Achebe has won almost all international honours for writing. Exaggeration or not, he is one of Africa’s best known storytellers...
made popular Oct 4 2008
Practically acquainted with “equal possibilities” in the academia for instance, would, perhaps, surely be wondering at checking the valid criteria Nobel Prizes have...
made popular May 29 2011
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The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who rang the first alarm bells over the ozone hole issued a warming about climate change on Saturday, saying there could be...
made popular Apr 6 2008
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