Nobel Prize

Nobel prize banquet set to be cancelled for first time in 64 years: Reports

The Nobel Prize winners for 2020 will be announced but the banquet, which is always held on December 10 and normally has around 1,300...

Dressed in Dhoti-Bandhgala, Abhijit Banerjee receives the Nobel Prize

Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo received the 2019 Nobel in Economic Sciences along with Michael Kremer at the...

PM Modi meets Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, tweets ‘India proud of his accomplishments’

Indian-American Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo, who jointly won the Nobel Prize for Economics this year, met...

Indian-origin Nobel Laureate sounds warning over Brexit backlash in science sector

Indian-origin Nobel Prize-winning biologist Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, based in the United Kingdom (UK), has warned the British...

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: The Nobel Prize-winning couple fighting poverty

Spotlight on Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo who have many, many accolades to their names with the Nobel Prize being just the latest in a...

Indian economy on shaky ground, says Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

Nobel-Prize winning Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee said on Monday that the Indian economy is on shaky ground.

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, two others win Nobel Prize for Economics

Banerjee was born in India and educated at the University of Calcutta and Jawaharlal Nehru University before receiving his PhD from Harvard...

Ethiopian Prime Minister wins Nobel Peace Prize

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the 100th Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to resolve his country's conflict with...

Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 and 2019 awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke respectively

There were two Nobel prizes handed out this year, due to the sexual assault scandal that hit the Swedish Academy which picks the winners in...

97-year-old wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with two others for Lithium-ion batteries

John B Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino have won the Nobel for developing lithium-ion batteries used in mobile phones,...

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists

James Peebles won for his theoretical discoveries in cosmology while Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were honoured for finding an exoplanet...

Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to three US, UK researchers

The trio won the Nobel for discoveries on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability, paving the way for new cancer treatments.

Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi shares his 4 P's to save the world

A special look at the work and achievements of Nobel Laureate and champion child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.

NRI Nobel Prize winning scientist in UK calls for 'sensible' post-Brexit immigration system

UK-based NRI Nobel Prize winning biologist Sir Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan called for a sensible post-Brexit immigration system.