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Dilip Cherian | Ex-babus want Peace Nobel for farmers' front

A forum of former IAS officers has come out in support of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the apex body of the farmers

30 Dec 2021 7:37 AM IST

The outspoken Tutu was considered the nations conscience by both Black and white, an enduring testament to his faith and spirit of reconciliation in a divided nation. (File Photo: Reuters)

South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Tutu dies aged 90

In his final years, he regretted that his dream of a 'Rainbow Nation' had yet to come true

26 Dec 2021 1:58 PM IST

A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobels, with new winners announced starting Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. (AP File)

Farrukh Dhondy | Will vaccine philantrophy be deserving of a Nobel?

In 2019, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia

12 Sept 2021 2:50 AM IST

A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobels, with new winners announced starting Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. (AP File)

Human rights champions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine win Nobel Peace...

The award will be presented at a formal ceremony in Oslo on Dec 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of the prizes'...

7 Oct 2022 3:47 PM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Gorby' transformed world's history, not a hero at home

The general peace that reigned in the decade after the Iron Curtain came down was, however, unlikely to last forever

2 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

P.S. Raghavan | The man who brought down the Iron Curtain

Gorbachev's was an unlikely story of a peasant boy from rural Russia climbing up the greasy pole of Soviet politics

2 Sept 2022 12:02 AM IST

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi for fighting oppression of women in Iran. The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the prize Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 in Oslo. (AP/PTI)

AA Edit | Peace, Eco, Medicine: 2023 Nobels were well-deserved

The name of Narges may have resonated across the world among those who care for human rights, specifically women's...

11 Oct 2023 1:03 AM IST

$\We Are Displaced\ will be published on September 4. (Photo: AFP)$ Newsmakers

Malala Yousafzai's next book to focus on refugee experience

"We Are Displaced" will be published on September 4.

13 March 2018 2:11 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi

Tamil Nadu BJP president 'nominates' PM Modi for Nobel Peace Prize...

Soundarajan has nominated PM Modi for launching 'Ayushman Bharat' and appealed people to join her in nominating the PM.

25 Sept 2018 9:53 AM IST

Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, pray by her tomb on her birth anniversary in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. (Photo: AP)

Kolkata holds prayers, masses to observe Mother Teresa's 107th birth...

Saint Teresa of Calcutta was born on August 26, 1910 at Skopje in Macedonia and died on September 5, 1997, after her...

26 Aug 2017 4:28 PM IST

In this picture, Malala Yousafzai is sitting with her mother Toor Pekai reading her new book Malalas Magic Pencil. (Photo: Twitter / Malala Yousafza)

First person to read Malala Yousafzai's new book is her mother

It will be released October.

6 Aug 2017 2:34 PM IST

Chinas Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo (Photo: AFP)

Liu's brave fight to the end

An empty chair at his Nobel award ceremony spoke more than what words would have conveyed for the battle of ideologies.

15 July 2017 12:18 AM IST