Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 12:49
After being accused of "sucking blood" from the poor, Bangladesh`s only Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus faces a new state-backed hate campaign seeking to paint him as un-Islamic and a spreader of homosexuality.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 11:36
‘Basic Instinct’ star Sharon Stone is to be presented with an honour by Nobel Prize winners for her work with HIV and AIDS sufferers.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 12, 2013, 09:05
US President Barack Obama has congratulated the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the White House said.
Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 21:48
A Syrian lawmaker said today that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the global chemical watchdog underscores "the credibility" of the Damascus government and its intentions to destroy its deadly arsenal.
Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 20:12
From top politicians to commoners, almost everyone in Pakistan on Friday showered accolades on Malala Yousafzai as they expressed disappointment at the teenage rights activist not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 09:51
Nobel chemistry prize winner Arieh Warshel said Wednesday he was "not on speaking terms" with one of his two co-laureates, Martin Karplus, but thinks the award will bring them together.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 20:51
Martin Karplus, one of three scientists who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday, escaped the Nazis and the Holocaust aged just eight-years-old, according to his autobiography.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 16:20
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, was tipped to win this year`s Sakhorav peace prize.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 15:14
Welcoming the Nobel Prize to Britain`s Peter Higgs and Belgian Francois Englert for their work on the Higgs Boson - popularly known as the "God particle" - prominent Indian physicists Tuesday asserted that though Indian scientist S.N. Bose did not receive the Nobel, the christening of the particle after him and Higgs is the biggest honour.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 09:09
With the Higgs boson in the bag, the head of the CERN research center urged scientists on Tuesday to push on to unveil the "dark universe" - the hidden stuff that makes up 95 percent of the cosmos and is still a mystery to earthbound researchers.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 22:18
British scientist Peter Higgs On Tuesday said he was "overwhelmed" after he and his Belgian colleague Francois Englert won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the `God particle`.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 21:33
The Higgs boson is a sub-atomic particle that confers mass on matter. Without it, the Universe would have no substance and life would not exist.
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