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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

P.S. Raghavan | The man who brought down the Iron Curtain

Gorbachev's was an unlikely story of a peasant boy from rural Russia climbing up the greasy pole of Soviet politics

2 Sept 2022 12:02 AM IST

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi for fighting oppression of women in Iran. The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the prize Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 in Oslo. (AP/PTI)

AA Edit | Peace, Eco, Medicine: 2023 Nobels were well-deserved

The name of Narges may have resonated across the world among those who care for human rights, specifically women's...

11 Oct 2023 1:03 AM IST

$\We Are Displaced\ will be published on September 4. (Photo: AFP)$ Newsmakers

Malala Yousafzai's next book to focus on refugee experience

"We Are Displaced" will be published on September 4.

13 March 2018 2:11 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi

Tamil Nadu BJP president 'nominates' PM Modi for Nobel Peace Prize...

Soundarajan has nominated PM Modi for launching 'Ayushman Bharat' and appealed people to join her in nominating the PM.

25 Sept 2018 9:53 AM IST

Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, pray by her tomb on her birth anniversary in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. (Photo: AP)

Kolkata holds prayers, masses to observe Mother Teresa's 107th birth...

Saint Teresa of Calcutta was born on August 26, 1910 at Skopje in Macedonia and died on September 5, 1997, after her...

26 Aug 2017 4:28 PM IST

In this picture, Malala Yousafzai is sitting with her mother Toor Pekai reading her new book Malalas Magic Pencil. (Photo: Twitter / Malala Yousafza)

First person to read Malala Yousafzai's new book is her mother

It will be released October.

6 Aug 2017 2:34 PM IST

Chinas Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo (Photo: AFP)

Liu's brave fight to the end

An empty chair at his Nobel award ceremony spoke more than what words would have conveyed for the battle of ideologies.

15 July 2017 12:18 AM IST

Malala Yousafzai (Photo: AP)

Malala Yousafzai Twitter debut takes Twitterati by storm

Yousafzai became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate in 2014, when she was recognised for her advocacy of the right of all...

9 July 2017 12:36 AM IST

Outgoing US President Barack Obama. (Photo: AFP)

From Nobel Peace Prize to Syria: Barack Obama the realist

Obama will on Friday hand over several thousand US combat troops overseas to his successor, Donald Trump.

20 Jan 2017 10:03 AM IST

Sasikala Natarajan pays tribute to late J. Jayalalithaa after she was appointed AIADMK general secretary at Poes Garden in Chennai. (Photo: PTI )

It's official, Sasikala is AIADMK supremo

The party will request to award the Bharat Ratna, Nobel Peace Prize and Ramon Magsaysay Award to Jayalalithaa.

30 Dec 2016 12:46 AM IST

Kailash Satyarthi

No headway in finding Nobel citation so far

The accused told police they threw items that were of no use to them in bushes and drains in Kalkaji.

17 Feb 2017 6:05 AM IST

Portrait of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and his detained wife Liu Xia at a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong. (Photo: AP)

China should allow 61-yr-old Nobel laureate's treatment abroad: US...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo was diagnosed with cancer while in prison for advocating democratic reforms.

28 Jun 2017 2:19 PM IST