Who have been India's Laureates, winners from India or of Indian-origin?
'We have come to the point in civilisation where emotion seems to be something you hide or you have to be discreet about, or to be ashamed of.'
The New York City mayor-elect's mother has made some incredible movies.
Three first half goals handed Punjab FC a comfortable 3-0 victory over Gokulam Kerala FC in the Group C opener of the Super Cup in Bambolim, Goa, on Monday.
The trio--two based in the United States and one in Japan--was recognised for their "groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance." that prevents the immune system from harming the body.
Jefferson-Wooden's winning time was short of the 10.65 seconds she ran in the US track and field championship at the start of August, but only bettered this year by Olympic champion Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia.
United States President Donald Trump was hoping to get the Peace award for "stopping" the eight wars including the conflict between India and Pakistan through trade and tariffs.
Trump, who had expected to receive the prize for his efforts to "end seven wars," also linked the conflict in Ukraine to his broader peacemaking claims.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday that it has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Economics 2025 to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth." The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel goes to the trio, with one half awarded to Mokyr "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress" and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction."
Look at any picture or video of Donald Trump and infer if that inspires any thought of peace. Does he represent peace or does he symbolise aggression? asks Biswajit Dasgupta.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi for their pioneering work in the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), Al Jazeera reported.
'On the editing table, we would be salivating on how she maintains her continuity to perfection on each take.' 'I have seen this with Shah Rukh sir and I observed the same level of precision with Rasika.'
Legendary actor-director Robert Redford, best known for films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, All The President's Men and Ordinary People, has passed away at the age of 89.
It was Julien Alfred, from an island of 180,000 people, who stole the show in the women's 100m final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
Julien Alfred won the women's 100 metres final to claim Saint Lucia's first-ever Olympic medal.
Oblique Seville, who finished last in the Paris Olympics final last year, emerged an easy winner with 9.77 -- to be placed 10th on the all-time list. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden claimed a dominant victory in the women's 100 metres in 10.61 seconds -- the fastest time ever run at a World championships.
Oblique Seville left Olympic champion Noah Lyles chewing his dust on Saturday as the Jamaican blasted out of the blocks and kept the hammer down to win the London Diamond League 100 metres in a hot 9.86 seconds.
'Even if I had the backing of a big corporate house, which I don't, in today's market, I wouldn't want the responsibility of making a Rs 300 crore-Rs 400 crore film.'
Norwegian hurdling great Karsten Warholm destroyed his own world best time in the rarely run 300 metres hurdles at the Oslo Diamond League meeting on Thursday.
American Noah Lyles made an impressive season debut in the 200 metres to beat Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday, where Kenyan Emmanuel Wanyonyi outclassed a high-class 800 metres field.
Junail Zafar Khan, a club-level Pakistan-origin cricketer, has died after collapsing on the ground during a local match played in extreme heat at the Concordia College in Adelaide.
Re-watching 1967's Jewel Thief evokes the joy of cinema, with its perfect blend of thrill, suspense, romance and music. A film like that can never be remade or be tampered with in any way, observes Deepa Gahlot.
On the 94th anniversary of the revolutionary giant's martyrdom, Utkarsh Mishra revisits the events of February 27, 1931.
It took Udham Singh 21 years to avenge the massacre of Jallianwala Bagh. And 34 years for his remains to return to India after execution in a British prison.
If you disregard history and are ready to watch Kesari 2 purely as an entertainer, you are definitely going to enjoy it, feels Utkarsh Mishra.
'Obviously I was pretty nervy the last three holes. I didn't hit very good shots, to be honest, down the 16th, 17th and 18th. He was definitely helping out.'
In her oeuvre, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life.
Rishabh Pant has been nominated for the prestigious Laureus World Comeback of the Year Award.
Images from the Diamond League Finals at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on Friday.
The Night Manager, starring Aditya Roy Kapur, Anil Kapoor and Sobhita Dhulipala, lost out to the French show Les Gouttes de Dieu at the International Emmy Awards 2024.
Images from the Weltklasse Diamond League athletics meeting at the Letzigrund Stadium, in Zurich, on Thursday.
The group has campaigned over the years for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
American Cole Hocker delivered one of the all-time Olympic shocks when he won the 1,500 metres gold
Carter was in politics, but not a politician, certainly not a transactional politician, points out Shreekant Sambrani.
Security officials at the Stade de France in Paris refused to let Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce back into the stadium.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize also known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson 'for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity'.
They have realised that there is a lot of money to be made from selling ultra-luxury villas at holiday destinations in India. The target customers will be high net worth individuals, since each of these villas is being branded as "second homes" and will be sold for upwards of Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million).
Powered by awesome running from her team members Olympic 200m Gold medalist Gabby Thomas, 100m Bronze medalist Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry, Sha'Carri Richardson ran a super fast final leg to ensure that the US won its first Olympic gold medal in the 4x100 relay since 2016.
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