Tag: Prize

Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer was awarded the the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Transtroemer, 80, was honoured “because, through his condensed, translucent...

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman Wednesday won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the secret of quasicrystals, an atomic mosaic whose discovery overturned theories...

Three scientists who unlocked secrets of the body's immune system, opening doors to new vaccines and treatments for cancer, won the 2011 Nobel prize...

Three scientists shared the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for their ground-breaking work on the immune system which the jury said opened up new prospects...

World number one Novak Djokovic's US Open triumph on Monday ran his Grand Slam total for the season to three and earned him a...

World number one Novak Djokovic's US Open triumph on Monday ran his Grand Slam total for the season to three and earned him a...

Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) held a prize distribution ceremony on Saturday for the participants of its summer art classes. Fifty students’...

The Pakistan Football Federation on the directives of its President Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has increased the prize money for the Pakistan Premier...

Finland’s foreign ministry on Monday won the Steam Spirit Prize for promoting sauna culture abroad, organisers said, hailing Finnish diplomats for using saunas to...

Lady Gaga is to be honoured for her contributions to fashion at one of America's most prestigious design awards ceremonies. The pop superstar has...

Detective series ‘Sherlock’ was a double winner at the TV Baftas, winning the best drama series title and best supporting actor prize for Martin...

Reclusive US director Terrence Malick clinched the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival for ‘The Tree of Life,’ a fantastical family drama uniting...

Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran presided over the prize distribution ceremony of annual sports of Oriental College held in the...

LONDON - Wimbledon's singles champions will benefit from a prize money rise taking their earnings to £1.1 million ($2.9 million) at the 2011 Championships, organisers announced on Tuesday. If men's champion Rafael Nadal and women's winner Serena Williams successfully defend the titles they won last year they will bank a cheque that represents a 10 percent rise of £100,000 on the £1 million prize awarded 12 months ago. Although the rest of the world continues to endure tough times as

LAS VEGAS - Miranda Lambert won four prizes at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday but lost the coveted entertainer of the year honor to Taylor Swift in a major surprise.
Swift, who picked up four nominations, had watched from her seat throughout the ceremony as rivals Lambert and Lady Antebellum went up to the stage.
She was stunned when her name was finally called for the final prize, a fan-voted honor.

LAHORE - A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday challenging Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif's Rs 0.5 million prize money for each player of the national cricket team from the provincial exchequer. Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffrey filed the petition requesting the court to restrain the CM from misusing public money. He said that Shahbaz should give cash prizes to players from his own pocket, as he had no right to waste public money. Jaffrey said there was no need to oblige

ISLAMABAD - The unauthorised business of prize bonds is emerging as an illegal market in Pakistan and is also being used as a tool for whitening money. According to a report prepared by the Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS), after the draw, so-called dealers collect winning bonds from the public for nominal service charges in case of small prizes and even on some premium in case of big prizes and pay them the prize money instantly. These winning bonds are then offered to