Nobel Prizes
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Three US-based economists win Nobel Prize for societal research
One half of the prize was awarded to David Card, while the other half was shared by Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens.
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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to three scientists for discoveries in climate, complex systems
Syukuro Manabe is a Japanese-born American, Klaus Hasselmann is from Germany and Giorgio Parisi is from Italy.
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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian
The two have been awarded for their discovery of receptors that allow humans to feel temperature and touch.
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When India was a ‘land of diamonds’, Russian tsars eagerly tried to build ties with Aurangzeb
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IPL 2022: For Jos Buttler, a strong foundation is leading to sky high success
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Jos Buttler’s fourth IPL century in eight innings: Reactions to another epic knock from RR opener
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Former Uttarakhand minister kills himself after police book him for molesting granddaughter
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to UN World Food Programme for its efforts to combat hunger
The Nobel committee said that the programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation which focuses on addressing hunger and promoting food security.
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Why Barack Obama was particularly unsuited to live up to the ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize
A critic of Obama's two terms explains how the 44th president’s personality and his politics of ‘least resistance’ prevented him from rising to the moment.
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
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PEN America criticises Nobel Prize to author Peter Handke, calls him a genocide denier
The organisation said Handke ‘used his public voice to undercut historical truth’ and publicly supported perpetrators of war crimes.
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Video
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Watch: Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle visits Uvalde, Texas to honour school shooting victims
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‘She was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong’: Father of student killed in Texas shooting
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Watch: Akila the temple elephant celebrates her twentieth birthday with a feast of fruits
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Watch: Nine-year-old boy discovers a puma in one of the toilet stalls at his school in Brazil
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Watch: Shikhar Dhawan mock-knocked out by father for not qualifying for IPL playoffs
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognises the men who enabled laptops and mobile phones
Michael Stanley Whittingham, John Bannister Goodenough and Akira Yoshino changed the way the world works (and recharges).
Harry Hoster, The Conversation
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke
The prize for 2018, which went to Tokarczuk, was postponed to this year after the academy was rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct.
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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to James Peebles, Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz for work in cosmology
Peebles got the prize for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and Mayor and Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
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The Reel
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‘Anek’ review: Political thriller muddles its way through the North East
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ review: Flights of nostalgia
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‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Field of Dreams’ actor Ray Liotta dies at 67
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Watch: Partition, art and the idea of home in short film ‘The Miniaturist Of Junagadh’
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Watch: ‘The Gray Man’ stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Dhanush and Ana de Armas
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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for ‘groundbreaking inventions in laser physics’
Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland won the prize. Strickland is the first woman to win this prize in 55 years.
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How Alfred Nobel went from 'merchant of death' to progressive visionary
His fortune amassed from weapons factories, oil companies and several patents were bequeathed in secret to mankind’s betterment.
Ramakrishnan M & Sujit Lad
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Richard H Thaler gets Nobel for his contribution to behavioural economics
He is a professor of Behavioural Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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