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Nobel winner 'saviour of Kenyan forests' passes away

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her campaigns to save Kenyan forests, died in a hospital in Nairobi late on Sunday after a long struggle with ovarian......

Maathai first African woman to win peace Nobel

Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to be awarded the prestigious prize since it was first handed out in 1901.Maathai, who has served as......

Say no to nuclear power: Nobel Laureates

Nobel Peace Laureates have asked all countries, including India and China, to invest in safer forms of renewable energy instead of nuclear energy in the backdrop of recent atomic disaster in......

Was Mother Teresa's Nobel Peace Prize illegal?

Over half the Nobel Peace Prizes awarded since 1946 are illegitimate because they are in breach of the terms of Alfred Nobel's will, claims a Norwegian peace activist.Fredrik Heffermehl, who is......

Peace Nobel for Bangladesh's micro-credit pioneer

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 was awarded to Muhammad Yunus, the 66-year-old Bangladeshi behind the Grameen Movement micro-banking system that has helped millions in his homeland, it was announced......

Cruise, Oprah to host Nobel concert

Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will co-host the Nobel Peace Prize concert to honour Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The concert will......

After Brothels, Stolen Childhoods

The advertisement for Stolen Childhoods, a probing documentary about oppressive child labour in seven countries including India, is so small in The New York Times that readers may miss it. But the......

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Q. Who is the founder of Green Belt Movement?
Nithya: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-is-the-founder-of-green-belt-movement/21845150/answers/

Q. Who was the nobel prize winner of peace in 2004?
Nithya: A. Wangari Maathai from Kenya. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-was-the-nobel-prize-winner-of-peace-in-2004/21845150/answers/15343898

Q. First woman to win Nobel Prize ?
Jaya Acharjee: A. The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 64-year-old Kenyan Wangari Maathai, an African native environmentalist and human rights campaigner. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/first--woman-to-win-nobel-prize-/15343803/answers/3065581

Q. Shanti ka Nobel Prize kise mila hai.
Krishnaswamy Thattai Renganathaiyengar: A. 2000:President Kim Dae Jung (III) (South Korea) for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/shanti-ka-nobel-prize-kise-mila-hai./3065577/answers/1623544

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South African 'fracktivist' awarded top U.S. environmental prize

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Wangari Maathai's life in brief in Tamil

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Wangari Maathai

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Nobel winner 'saviour of Kenyan forests' passes away

Maathai first African woman to win peace Nobel

Say no to nuclear power: Nobel Laureates

Was Mother Teresa's Nobel Peace Prize illegal?

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After Brothels, Stolen Childhoods

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