Tag: Nobel Prize

Twitterati go crazy as PTI official account tweets in Hindi

Ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)'s official account on Monday tweeted Prime Minister Imran Khan's message in Hindi and Twitterati on both sides of the...

Trio win Nobel Chemistry Prize for research harnessing evolution

BRUSSELS: US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for applying the principles...

Murakami requests withdrawal from alternative Nobel award consideration

Japanese author Haruki Murakami has asked for the withdrawal of his nomination for an alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, postponed this year...

Aung San Suu Kyi won’t be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize:...

STAVANGER: The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said...

Aung San Suu Kyi will not be stripped of Nobel Prize,...

STAVANGER: The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said...

Locals praise Malala for building modern school, college in Shangla

SHANGLA: Shangla district residents have appreciated Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai for constructing a state-of-the-art school and college for orphans and poor students in...

Nobel Prize for Literature cancelled after sex assault scandal

The Swedish Academy announced on Friday morning that there would be no Nobel laureate for literature selected in 2018, as it attempts to come...

Three quit as #MeToo scandal hits Nobel literature academy

STOCKHOLM: Three prominent members of the Swedish Academy resigned on Friday in protest at close ties between the institution, which awards the Nobel Literature...

Japanese Nobel prize winner discovered wandering, wife found dead in Illinois

A Japanese Nobel-winning chemist was discovered wandering in rural Northern Illinois and his wife found dead nearby, some nine hours after they had been...

Civil society pays tribute to Asma, demands Nobel Prize for her

LAHORE: The members of civil society on Monday passed a resolution in which they demanded from the Nobel Prize Committee to consider Asma Jahangir’s name...

Afghan institute, Metallica share music’s ‘Nobel Prize’

STOCKHOLM: An Afghan music institute that has empowered girls in the war-torn country and metal pioneers  Metallica on Wednesday shared the Polar Music Prize,...

GCU remembers its alumnus nobel laureate Prof Abdus Salam

LAHORE: Professor Abdus Salam, the Nobel laureate and an old Ravian, breathed his last 21 years ago on Thursday, November 21, 1996, after a...

Ghana-based educationist wins WISE Laureate 2017 award

Dr Awuh says teachers should be empowered to take risks through research, putting students to pursue path to seek truth   DOHA: The WISE Summit 2017...

2017 Nobel Prize for Economics goes to Richard H Thaler

STOCKHOLM: The Nobel Prize for Economics was on Monday awarded to Richard H. Thaler. Thaler is a professor at the University of Chicago for his...

Anti-nuclear efforts head the field for Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize

Oslo: Efforts to limit or reverse the spread of nuclear weapons head the field for Friday's Nobel Peace Prize but face likely competition from...

Human body never adapts to disrupting inner body clock

Paris: Messing with your body's clock is a dangerous business, in fact, it could make you sick -- or worse. The inner timekeeper dubbed the...

Malala’s Nobel Prize unworthy, says Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Indian spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has questioned the credentials of the Nobel Committee and education activist Malala Yousafzai, saying he would turn...