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Sucheta Dasgupta | India’s unsung green heroes

Sucheta Dasgupta | India’s unsung green heroes

Take economist-turned-sociologist Radhakamal Mukerjee, b. 1881), for instance. In 1922, he formally advocated the...

8 March 2025 7:53 PM IST

MGM Hospital on brink of collapse

Doctors of the Central government-run MGM Hospital in Parel are working under a tree on the campus, in light of the...

14 March 2013 11:22 AM IST

His musings on happiness may not be as famous as his theory of relativity, but still shed light on one of the great modern minds. (Photo: Pixabay)

Einstein's theory of happiness sells for $1.3M at auction

The Winner's auction house said Einstein scribbled the note in German to a bellboy after he did not have the cash to...

25 Oct 2017 2:56 PM IST

Albert Einstein. (Photo: AFP)

Einstein's theory of happy living emerges in Tokyo note

It is impossible to determine if the notes were a reflection of Einstein's own musings on his growing fame.

23 Oct 2017 1:05 PM IST

US economist Richard Thaler on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Economics. (Photo: AP)

Disrupting the myth of objectivity

Our media still shies away from expressing bias, while its counterparts in many countries do not.

17 Oct 2017 6:33 AM IST

RBI ex-boss in list of probables for Nobel in Eco

The entry to the list does not guarantee that Mr Rajan is a front-runner but he is a probable who stands a chance to...

8 Oct 2017 1:46 AM IST

Richard Henderson, one of the 2017 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, holds a bacterio rhodopsin model prior to a press conference at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. Three researchers based in the U.S., U.K. and Switzerland won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developments in electron microscopy. The 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize is shared by Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne, Joachim Frank at New Yorks Columbia University and Richard Henderson of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, Britain. (Frank Augstein/Associated Press)

Nobel-winning technique like Google earth for molecules'

Molecules can be captured down to the level of their atoms, and snapshots can catch them in mid-movement.

7 Oct 2017 9:41 AM IST

The Nobel Prize for Literature for 2017 has been awarded to British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. (Photo: AP)

Kazuo Ishiguro, an apt choice

The Swedish Academy thinks he is a mixture of Jane Austen and Franz Kafka with a bit of Marcel Proust thrown in.

7 Oct 2017 12:17 AM IST

Ishiguro left Japan when he was five and moved to Britain, only returning to visit his native land as an adult three decades later. (Photo: AP)

Japan sees a surge in demand for Ishiguro's books

Japan had been pinning its hopes on novelist Haruki Murakami to win Nobel Prize but eagerly claimed link to winner with...

6 Oct 2017 10:49 AM IST

The London-based author won the Nobel prize for his novel The Remains of the Day, which earlier won the Booker Prize in 1989. (Photo: AFP)

Initially thought it was 'hoax': Kazuo Ishiguro on winning Nobel Prize

The London-based author won the Nobel prize for his novel 'The Remains of the Day', which earlier won the Booker Prize...

5 Oct 2017 7:28 PM IST

From winners who are famous to those who have been forgotten and western domination in Nobel, a list of the must knows of the Nobel prize (Representational Image)

Find out about the controversy, fame and flops for Nobel Literature...

Here's a look at the controversial, famous and forgotten Nobel Prize winners for literature over the years.

5 Oct 2017 9:38 AM IST

In 2016, the award went to Bob Dylan, considered to be someone outside the conventional conception of literature as novels and poetry. (Photo: AP)

Academy likely to go for more conventional pick for Literature Nobel...

While committee shocked world last year with unconventional pick, experts believe members will go with more orthodox...

5 Oct 2017 8:58 AM IST