Nobel

Iran frees jailed Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi for 21 days

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was released temporarily from prison Wednesday after undergoing a complex surgery in Iran that ...

Iran releases Nobel Peace laureate Mohammadi on medical leave

TEHRAN, Dec 4: Iran has released Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi, jailed since November 2021, for three weeks on medical ...

Nobel prize winners point to economic inclusive institutions

Dr Ishrat Hossain

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson ...

Trio wins economics Nobel for work on wealth inequality

STOCKHOLM, Oct 14: The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson ...

Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson win 2024 Nobel economics prize

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Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize "for studies of how institutions are formed ...

Nobel Peace Prize winners warn of rising risk of nuclear war

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Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday that the risk of ...

Japanese atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Oct 11: The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots ...

Japanese atomic bomb survivors' group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize ...

Yunus congratulates Nihon Hidankyo on winning Nobel Peace Prize

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus today congratulated Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, on winning the 2024 ...

South Korea's Han Kang wins Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM, Oct 10: South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose ...

South Korea's Han Kang wins Nobel Literature Prize

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South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, reports BBC.The 53-year-old fiction writer is a former ...

Trio wins chemistry Nobel for protein design, prediction

STOCKHOLM, Oct 9: Americans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

Nobel Prize for Chemistry goes to 3 scientists for work with proteins

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Scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the award-giving body said on ...

Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded as wars rage

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The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded Friday, a ray of light in a dark year for world peace, with ...

Duo wins Physics Nobel for key breakthroughs in AI

STOCKHOLM, Oct 8: American John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering ...

Nobel literature jury may go for non-Western writer

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The Nobel Prize in Literature has honoured predominantly Western writers since it was first awarded in 1901, but the Swedish ...

American, Canadian win Nobel in Physics for work on AI, machine learning

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their "foundational discoveries" that ...

Hopfield and Hinton win 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

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American John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering work in the ...

Nobel prize for medicine: US duo Ambros, Ruvkun win for discovery of microRNA

STOCKHOLM, Oct 7: U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for ...

2 US scientists win Nobel Prize in Medicine

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Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA ...

Nobel Peace Prize could honour UNRWA, ICJ, UN chief Guterres

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The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), the International Court of Justice and U.N. chief Antonio Guterres are among the ...

2024 Nobels offer glimmer of hope as global crises mount

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Next week's Nobel Prize announcements will crown achievements that made the world a better place, a glimmer of optimism amid ...

92 Nobel Laureates greet Dr Yunus

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About 92 Nobel laureates, one hundred ninety-eight global leaders including and Barack Obama have shared their message of congratulations and ...

Economic thinking of BD interim govt head Nobel Laureate Yunus

Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus takes over as the head of Bangladesh's caretaker government on Thursday at a ...

Nobel committee condemns jail term for Iranian laureate Mohammadi

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Thursday criticised an Iranian court's decision to slap an additional one-year jail term on imprisoned ...

No competitive politics left in Bangladesh, says Nobel laureate Yunus

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Bangladesh has turned into a "one-party" state as the ruling party stamps out political competition, Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, ...

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author of Canada, dies at 92

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Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and travails of small-town women in ...

Govt would have got Nobel prize had there been any such for discrimination: GM Quader

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There was not so much discrimination in the history of Bangladesh as it is now, said Leader of the Opposition ...

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman dies at 90

WASHINGTON, Mar 28: Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, who pioneered theories in behavioral economics that heavily influenced the discipline, has ...

Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi launches ‘Satyarthi Movement for Global Compassion’

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New Delhi, Mar 11: Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi known for his four decades of tireless efforts to assure children ...