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Nobel Peace Prize winner 2023 Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike in her Iranian prison in protest at limits on medical care for her and other inmates and the obligation for women to wear the hijab in the Islamic republic, her family said on November 6, 2023. | Photo Credit: Narges Mohammadi Foundation via AFP […]
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Professor Paul lauded PM Modi-led government for successfully leading digital penetration into masses New Delhi: Nobel Laureate Professor Paul Michael Romer on Sunday hailed India’s digital revolution as one of the most inspiring and interesting success stories and said that it has set a new benchmark for world powers. Prof Paul Michael Romer, also the […]
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South Korean writer Han Kang, the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, signs autographs during the 18th Pony Chung Innovation Award ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday (October 17, 2024). | Photo Credit: AP Author Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, said on Thursday (October […]
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Why some countries are rich while others are poor is a question that has been debated by economists for a long time now. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AP The story so far: The 2024 Economics Nobel prize was awarded to U.S. economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson on Monday “for studies […]
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Economics Nobel winners Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson being announced at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 14, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday (October 14, 2024) awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James […]
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A file image of Nobel Prize medal. | Photo Credit: AP Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for 2024 for their work “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” The Nobel Prize 2024: An interactive guide The Nobel Prize in Economics 2023 was […]
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Members of Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors, that won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, attend a press conference on October 12, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday (October 12, 2024) […]
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South Korean author Han Kang in Seoul, South Korea, in 2016. Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption toggle caption Lee Jin-man/AP South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the first Korean writer and the eighteenth woman to win the award. In 2016, she […]
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Atomic bomb survivors and members of Nihon Hidankyo, a country-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers, including Assistant Secretary General Toshiko Hamanaka, Co-chairperson Terumi Tanaka, Assistant Secretary General Masako Wada, Assistant Secretary General Jiro Hamasumi attend a press conference on the following day of Nihon Hidankyo winning the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, in Tokyo, […]
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Oslo / Tokyo: Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries that have nuclear weapons not to use them. Many survivors of the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict, who are known […]
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