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Thousands sign petition to revoke Suu Kyi's Nobel Prize over Rohingya...

Suu Kyi was awarded the prize in 1991, while under house arrest at the hands of Myanmar's military, from which she was...

7 Sept 2017 6:12 PM IST

World

Myanmar: 125,000 Rohingya refugees flee Bangladesh; Suu Kyi under...

The latest violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state began on Aug 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked dozens of police posts...

5 Sept 2017 2:11 PM IST

At the Bukavu hospital, which serves as a clinic for gynaecological and obstetric care, he lives under the permanent protection of UN peacekeepers. (Photo: AP)

Newsmakers

Denis Mukwege: Healer of DR Congo's wounds becomes Nobel laureate

Nobel Peace Prize co-winner had been repeatedly nominated for work with gang rape victims from conflicts that have...

5 Oct 2018 3:25 PM IST

Today, Murad and her friend Lamia Haji Bashar, joint recipients of the EUs 2016 Sakharov human rights prize, continue the fight for the 3,000 Yazidis who remain missing, presumed still in captivity. (Photo: AP)

Newsmakers

Nadia Murad: From jihadist slave to Nobel laureate

Murad and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded prize for efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a...

5 Oct 2018 3:16 PM IST

The Facebook oversight board will be able to overturn decisions by the company and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on whether individual pieces of content should be allowed on Facebook and Instagram. But critics call the oversight board a bid by Facebook to forestall regulation or even an eventual breakup. (Photo | Flickr - Anthony Quintano)

Technology

Facebook's Supreme Court' of Nobel winner, former Guardian editor,...

The oversight board is to make binding decisions on hate speech and misinformation, following free speech norms and...

7 May 2020 4:19 PM IST

Life

Tagore's painting exhibited in Egypt

Tagore started to paint as painting is a universal language and can reach everyone without the need to be translated.

6 May 2018 4:46 PM IST

$Awarding him the Nobel, the Swedish Academy said he was a \literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself, in his inimitable voice\. (Photo: AFP)$ World

Nobel laureate VS Naipaul dies at 85

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul wrote more than 30 books and won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2001.

12 Aug 2018 8:24 AM IST

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80 (Photo: AFP)

World

Former UN chief, Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan dies at 80

He passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th August after a short illness, the Kofi Annan Foundation said in a statement.

18 Aug 2018 4:22 PM IST

Business

Economist Amartya Sen flays demonetisation

Nobel Laureate says the move is despotic action, undermines trust and economy.

30 Nov 2016 3:56 PM IST

Amartya Sen was honoured with Bharat Ratna in 1999.

Metros

Amartya Sen film trailer out on Facebook

The CBFC cannot dictate if I post a trailer on the Internet. It is not against law, says Suman Gosh.

16 July 2017 3:49 AM IST

Chinas Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo (Photo: AFP)

World

China hits back at criticism over Nobel laureate's death

Britain hit out at China for preventing Liu Xiaobo from travelling overseas for treatment.

14 July 2017 2:56 PM IST

World

Jailed Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo dies at 61

The writer's death silences a government critic, who had been a thorn in the side of the authorities for decades.

13 July 2017 7:37 PM IST