Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama was admitted on Thursday to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai for treatment of abdominal discomfort.
Nobel Laureate and chief architect of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh had 45-minute meeting with Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Wednesday during which the two discussed micro-financing activity in Bangladesh and India.
Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus asked the Indian industry on Tuesday to get into micro-finance activities and the government to enable a legal framework for promotion of 'social business' in the country.
India is on the cusp of rapid growth and this is a great reason for the country to be at the forefront of promoting clean energy, United States energy secretary Steven Chu said on Friday.
Even as Reserve Bank has charted a five-year road map to attain fuller float of rupee, noted economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz on Thursday favoured a cautious approach to capital account convertibility.
The Nobel laureate's statement comes after the Indian government on Monday revoked Article 370 of the Constitution that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has expressed disenchantment with people from India 'bothering' him 'clogging' up his email box and dubbed as 'strange' their sudden urge to reach out to him.
Terming as 'inaccurate' reports that United States President Barack Obama has postponed his talks with the Dalai Lama, the White House has said the US president holds the Tibetan leader in great esteem and insisted that a meeting was never on the cards during the Nobel laureate's current trip to US.
Dr M S Swaminathan, friends with Dr Norman Borlaug for 56 years, recalls how the Nobel Laureate transformed Indian agriculture.
Charpentier, 51, and Doudna, 56, are just the sixth and seventh women to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry, according to France 24.
Do you think it is time India got rid of a cruel law that treats gays as criminals?
He said while there were unwilling land losers, there were others who lost the opportunity of being employed in industry.
This is clearly the worst financial problem we've had since the Great Depression," as Joseph Stiglitz told a radio show in New Zealand on Wednesday morning.
Sen also observed that invasion of Iraq itself was a 'grave mistake.'
Economists urged FM to rationalise indirect taxes and impose Tobin tax.
The Tobin tax, first proposed by Nobel laureate James Tobin in 1972, is a sales tax on cross-border currency trades, aimed at discouraging speculation by making currency trading more costly.
The Indian government could consider controls to curb excessive fund inflows into the country, a world-renowned economist has said.
'I will be researching the successful business models that have emerged from the rapid industrialisation of India's economy and its effects within Indian society. In addition, I will be examining the entrepreneurship process within India and future opportunities for entrepreneurs in India.'
India and China need to chart a different path to develop low carbon economies to combat global warming, Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri said. In both India and China, there is now a serious debate. "In India I can see it for sure because the prime minister is quite concerned about this issue. He set up the advisory council on climate change," he said.
Britain's Cambridge University will put up a special memorial plaque in honour of its almuni, Indian scientist Jagdish Chandra Bose, to mark the Nobel Laureate's 150th birth anniversary.
People of Indian Origin want to talk to ministers so that their problems can be solved, says Amit Mitra, Secretary-General, FICCI.
Nearly 650 people have been killed in the recent unrest in Bangladesh between July 16 and August 11, the United Nations Human Rights Office has said in a preliminary report, suggesting a thorough, impartial and transparent investigation into reports of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions.
The 67-year-old gave the example of two neighbouring states, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, to buttress his point on why seat-sharing pattern of the INDIA bloc will vary from state to state.
Peres has been elected ninth President of Israel at a time when the office of the ceremonial head has taken a severe battering in view of charges of rape and sexual misconduct against the outgoing President.
Silicon Valley is gearing up to host a conference of scientists, engineers and executives, Nobel Laureates and industry head honchos from India and US on June 22 to 24 to be organised by the Indian Institute of Science Alumni Association of NA.
The state government has begun the process to acquire land for the university.
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who underwent a surgery for gall-bladder stone removal at a private hospital here, was discharged on Thursday morning.
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama underwent a gall bladder surgery on Friday at Sir Gangaram Hospital in New Delhi.
His 2000 Nobel citation said Kilby "laid the foundation of modern information technology."
The United Nations has asked the military government of Myanmar to release 1,300 political prisoners including opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Kamala has finessed bubblegum conversation about whether she is Black or Indian. Her Irrelevancing-approach, an Irrelevance-code if you will, is Elevated and Elegant -- this is the Elevance of Kamala! asserts economist Dr Anuradha Luther Maitra.
Within 24 hours of justifying the setting up industries, including special economic zones on agricultural land, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus backtracked on Monday.
Muhammad Yunus urged the people to "exercise patience" before judging his government's role.
Kumar has said that his government would introduce a bill in connection to set up the university in the state assembly soon.
Other speakers will include CK Prahalad, Karan Billimoria and Apoorva Bagri.
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