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Suu Kyi leaves for Thailand on her visit abroad in 24 yrs

In her first visit abroad in 24 years, most of which were spent under house arrest, Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi left for Thailand on Tuesday to attend a World Economic Forum meet......

Why the India chair in Virginia varsity matters

 Professor Niraj Verma, director of the L Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, US, who will be the operational head of the......

The sour notes in Hillary's South Asia trip

 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ruffled a couple of sensitive feathers while on her otherwise successful South Asian tour. While in Dhaka it was a remark about Grameen Bank and its founder......

Oxford awaits Suu Kyi to award her doctorate

 Aung Saan Suu Kyi's alma mater Oxford is abuzz with anticipation as it awaits the return of the democracy icon to receive a doctorate from the university that was announced way back in 1993, in......

NRI journalist's tabloid wins UK award

 'Asian Lite', a Manchester-based fortnightly focussing on British Asian events and issues, has won the top prize in the newspaper category in the How-Do Awards that celebrate the best in the media......

PIX: When Shah Rukh Khan kept his date with Yale

Shah Rukh Khan, who became the first Bollywood personality to be honoured with the prestigious Chubb Fellowship at Yale University, delivered his lecture as a Fellow amidst cheering fans and......

Shah Rukh to receive highest Yale honour

Bollywood actor and producer Shah Rukh Khan will join the likes of former Presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carterwhen hedelivers a lecture at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow on......

K Balachander gets Dadasaheb Phalke award

K Balachander, who brought a whiff of fresh air with daring new style in direction and filmmaking in Tamil cinema in the 1970s, was today chosen for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2010.The......

Strauss receives ICC Test Championship mace

England cricket captain Andrew Strauss received the ICC Test Championship mace on Monday for leading the team, which finished atop the ICC Test Championship table on the annual cut-off date of......

Unpaid SL cricketers playing for love of the game

Sri Lankan players will be playing the ODI tri-series in Australia, the Commonwealth Bank Series, because of their love for cricket, despite not getting their payments on time. Sri Lanka's players......

London wins bid to stage 2017 World athletics

London will fulfil a promise of a legacy for track and field following next year's Olympicsafter it was chosen to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships on Friday by beating Doha for the right......

BCCI stands firm, rejects revised Sports Bill

The BCCI on Saturday rejected the revised draft of the National Sports Development Bill that seeks to regulate the functioning of the Cricket Board, saying certain aspects of the bill are meant to......

Durand Cup swells budget, winner's prize up to 20 lakh

Its overall budget more than doubled to Rs 1.54 crore, the world's third oldest football tournament -- the Durand Cup -- has hiked the winner's purse from Rs five lakh to Rs 20 lakh for its 124th......

  People speak for nobel prize committee

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rajan
Q. Which company has been associated with sponsoring different events from the Olympics to the NobelPrize? Its chairman, Kun Hee Lee was also a member of the International Olympic Committee?
Rajan:  A.  more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/which-company-has-been-associated-with-sponsoring-different-/21725510/answers/

S L
Q. What country awards the Nobel peace prize
S L:  A. samsung more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-country-awards-the-nobel-peace-prize/21701455/answers/21725540

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Q. Should india get nobel prize for corruption ?
S L:  A. It very well desrves it and even if it does not qualify as per the rank I am sure India inc will bribe the committee for getting it! more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/should-india-get-nobel-prize-for-corruption-/21701455/answers/19286268

  Web results for Nobel Prize Committee
Nobel prizes from October 8-15

STOCKHOLM - The 2012 Nobel prizes will be announced between October 8 and 15, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday, with Helmut Kohl, Bill Clinton,... ...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/24hours-news/~3/Mp71vHE5fiA/nobel-prizes-from-october-8-15
Ozone layer scientist who 'saved the world' dies

F Sherwood Rowland won Nobel prize for raising the alarm over CFC gases destroying Earth's ultraviolet shieldF Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel winning... ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/12/ozone-layer-scientist-dies
Soldier accused over WikiLeaks nominated for Nobel peace prize

A total of 231 nominees are up for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Nobel Institute said, with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the EU and US soldier... ...

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2012/feb/280212-Soldier-accused-over-WikiLeaks-nominated-for-Nobel-peace-prize.htm
Nobel laureates and journalist among suspected communists in MI5's files

Documents from National Archives reveal tens of thousands of people were monitored because of their supposed political viewsMI5's archives contains... ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/17/nobel-laureates-mi5-files
Special 'Gitanjali' to mark Tagore's 150th birth anniversary

A special edition of 'Gitanjali', the Nobel Prize-winning anthology of Rabindranath Tagore's poems, was on Saturday launched by union Finance... ...

http://www.asianage.com/india/special-gitanjali-mark-tagores-150th-birth-anniversary-054
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