Aung San Su Kyi, Myanmar's iconic pro-democracy leader, went on trial for allegedly giving refuge to an American intruder who swam to her lake-side home in Yangon.
The treaty provides for a set of common minimum standards for control of transfer of arms, based on existing responsibilities of member-states under various international laws.\n
IMF is plagued by the dominance of the US on account of its veto power and the lack of representation of all partakers in the society, he said.
Asha Damle's Marathi translation of American Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's ground-breaking novel, Beloved.
Nobel Laureate and economist Joseph E Stiglitz said on Thursday that the major impediment for India to sustain its high economic growth is lack of infrastructure and wrong regulations.
The warmth and respect for India were evident wherever I went and noticed how most Latin Americans have Indian gurus either directly or online and yoga was very much in vogue, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Vajpayee, on the third day of his visit to Turkey, inaugurated the 'Rabindranath Tagore Avenue' and unveiled the Nobel laureate's bust at a ceremony in Ankara.
Chief Adviser to Bangladesh's interim government, Muhammad Yunus, has said the issue of attacks on minority Hindus in his country is 'exaggerated' and questioned the manner in which India projected it.
Charpentier, 51, and Doudna, 56, are just the sixth and seventh women to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry, according to France 24.
Nobel laureate Amratya Sen has been conferred Lifetime Achievement Award by UNESCAP as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations.
In an exclusive interview to rediff.com, TnQ Books and Journals Manging Director Mariam Ram speaks about the growth of TnQ.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told rediff.com in Patna on Tuesday that the Dalai Lama promised to back and fully support the setting up of the university in Nalanda.
"It is unheard of in China, Japan, Indonesia, the US and in European countries, which I visited. It is a matter of shame that private tuition exists in India at the primary level of education," Sen noted.
Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of the micro-credit pioneer Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, hit out at banks on Friday for not providing loans to the poor and disadvantaged.
A reader shares his photograph with Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
A fast -- June 16 to 25-- demanding the release of Dr Binayak Sen began on Monday in India, Pakistan, Thailand, the US and the UK. More than 100 organisations have endorsed this fast and campaign demanding justice for Dr Sen.
Moreover, the process to release those arrested between July 1 to August has started, and many have already been released, it added.
Prof Chandrashekhar, a student of the Nobel Laureate Sir C V Raman, was closely associated with the Royal Institute of England.
US nominee for World Bank president, Ajay Banga, has tested positive for COVID-19 following which the meetings scheduled during his two-day visit to India have been cancelled. According to a Finance Ministry statement, Banga's meeting with Nirmala Sitharaman would not happen as he is in quarantine. "During routine testing, Ajay Banga tested positive for COVID-19 but remains asymptomatic.
The first meeting of the Nalanda Mentor Group headed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen to oversee the opening of the university will be held in Singapore on July 13 and 14, N K Singh, deputy chairman, Bihar State Planning, said.
'It has made minorities' position uncertain,' he said.
India has done badly on three issues: fighting hunger, providing adequate health, and gender inequality, says the Nobel Laureate.
Aung San Suu Kyi spent her 58th birthday on Thursday in Yangon's forbidding Insein prison.
Dylan was named winner of this year's Nobel prize for literature in October for his vast body of lyrics and poetry but has since been reluctant to publicly acknowledge the honour.
In a special offer, South Africa's main Afrikaan language newspaper Beeld has invited him to be its editor for a day.
The American trio of Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young won for "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Friday said it would be wrong on the part of West Bengal government if it gave too much emphasis on private healthcare delivery system.
Bangladesh is in turmoil, which is not good news for India, which shares a porous 4000 km border with it. There is a danger of fundamentalism growing there, and India has to move in to reset its ties with the new dispensation before China and Pakistan make capital out of it, alerts Ramesh Menon.
Dylan, 75, was honoured "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said.
Jaitly flayed the Nobel laureate for expressing disappointment on Tehelkas treatment and said he should not play politics on behalf of the website.
