Tag: Nobel
American, Japanese win Nobel for lifesaving cancer research
STOCKHOLM: Two researchers from the United States and Japan won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that help the body marshal...
Republicans nominate Trump for Nobel peace prize
A group of 18 House Republicans has nominated President Donald Trump for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on North Korea.
“Although North...
Nobel literature prize panel’s head resigns over harassment controversy
STOCKHOLM: The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, was plunged into crisis on Thursday after two of its members, including its head...
Nobel laureate Malala arrives in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Nobel laureate, women rights and education activist Malala Yousufzai arrived in Pakistan on a four-day visit late Wednesday night here in Islamabad.
According to...
Nobel’s shinning stars who did not live up to expectations
Praised to the skies and bearing great hopes, they went on to disappoint the world: as the case of Aung San Suu Kyi shows,...
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Tunisia’s guardians of democracy
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on Thursday to four organisations that helped save Tunisia's transition to democracy through dialogue, a method the...
Nobel winners urge Obama to press Xi for fellow laureate’s release
A group of 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on President Barack Obama to make a public call for the release of their...
Nobel brings little impetus for peace in India and Pakistan
Analyst says joint Nobel award was a clear signal that international community wanted to see India and Pakistan working together more to promote peace...
France’s Jean Tirole wins Nobel Economics Prize
The award of this year’s prize to a French national marked a departure from American dominance on the list of laureates.
Mexican lawyer wins human rights ‘Nobel’
Ancheita, who is the founder and executive director of the Mexican organisation ProDESC, has spent the past 15 years working to protect land and labour rights from transnational mining and energy companies.
Malala, Snowden, Pope tipped for 2014 Nobel prizes
Laureates will receive $1.11 million per award
Wah Nobel Group signs MoU with Gezhouba Explosives Company
An MoU has been inked between Wah Nobel Group of Companies and Gezhouba Explosives Co. Ltd, China to setup an Explosives Factory through a...
No Nobel for Malala: Disappointed, but nomination an honour for all...
The chairman PTI, Imran Khan expressed disappointment over brave young Pakistani Malala Yusufzai not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize; but Khan said that even...
I don’t deserve Nobel yet, says Malala
Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, says she has not done enough to deserve the award, as her old...
Angelina Jolie for Nobel peace award for Malala
The United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has turned her attention to Malala Yousafzai, writing an opinion piece in defence of the 14-year-old Pakistani...
US duo win Nobel Economics Prize for ‘match-making’
US scholars Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for their work on the functioning of markets and how...
Nobel ambitions?
Prizes, here and there
Did the Nobel peace prize die, really, the day Henry Kissinger (‘73) got one? From that fateful day, all the other...
