Nobel laureate Sir VS Naipaul tormented his first wife for nearly four decades, regularly visited brothels in London and kept a mistress for almost 24 years before suddenly leaving her to marry a Pakistani scribe, according to his biography. The 75-year-old novelist, born to Indian parents in Trinidad and has been living in Britain since winning a place in Oxford, has admitted in his biography that he frequently humiliated his first wife (Patricia).
The latest to take up the matter and join issue with the ministry is none other than Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, who sent a message from Kolkata to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week, asking him not to allow a proposal to serve biscuits and pre-packaged food to pre-school children. Sen also asked the PM to prevent the move to replace cooked food with packaged food as part of the mid-day meal scheme in elementary schools.
Forbes magazine has honoured Bandhan of being the world's largest micro finance institute.
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
Asha Damle's Marathi translation of American Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's ground-breaking novel, Beloved.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In an exclusive interview to rediff.com, TnQ Books and Journals Manging Director Mariam Ram speaks about the growth of TnQ.
Nobel laureate Amratya Sen has been conferred Lifetime Achievement Award by UNESCAP as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations.
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.
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"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.
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.
Muhammad Yunus urged the people to "exercise patience" before judging his government's role.
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.
Prof Chandrashekhar, a student of the Nobel Laureate Sir C V Raman, was closely associated with the Royal Institute of England.
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.
It then went on to ask whether a lion could be named after Swami Vivekananda or Ramakrishna Paramahansa.
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.
India has done badly on three issues: fighting hunger, providing adequate health, and gender inequality, says the Nobel Laureate.
'It has made minorities' position uncertain,' he said.
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".
Aung San Suu Kyi spent her 58th birthday on Thursday in Yangon's forbidding Insein prison.
Dylan, 75, was honoured "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said.
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