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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Nobel a byproduct, India needs culture for first-rate science: Venki

The Indian Constitution talks of having a scientific temper, but the Constitution and the budget are not in sync, the...

5 Feb 2020 3:02 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)

Nobel physics prize goes to 3 for climate discoveries

The winners were announced Tuesday by Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

5 Oct 2021 4:59 PM IST

US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. (Photo:AFP)

Nobel Prize honors discovery of temperature, touch receptors

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian focused their work on the field of somatosensation

4 Oct 2021 11:47 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

Unlike the other prizes, the economics award wasnt established in Alfred Nobels will of 1895 but by the Swedish central bank in his memory. (Photo: Nobel Prize)

3 US-based economists given Nobel Prize for work on banks

The committee said their work had shown in their research why avoiding bank collapses is vital

10 Oct 2022 8:23 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)

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature

Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced the winner Thursday in Stockholm, Sweden

6 Oct 2022 5:25 PM IST

Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko. (AP/PTI, File)

Chandrakant Lahariya | Nobel Boost: New Malaria Vaccine; TB Vaccine...

Vaccines are proven and life-saving interventions, every year vaccines save millions of lives and prevent severe disease...

6 Oct 2023 12:05 AM IST

Balkrishna V. Doshi

The making of a teacher, storyteller, and India's first Nobel'...

He seemed to gravitate towards one particular student from Porbandar almost immediately.

16 March 2018 2:27 AM IST

Ei-ichi Negishi is a Japanese national who came to the US on a Fulbright scholarship in 1960 to study chemistry. He joined the Purdue faculty in 1979. (Photo: AP)

US: Nobel-winner Negishi found wandering, wife found dead near car

Police discovered Ei-ichi Negishi walking in the area, and his wife was found dead near their car.

15 March 2018 11:55 AM IST

Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb

Tagore returned Nobel Prize in protest against British Raj: Tripura CM...

Tripura CM Biplab Deb made these remarks at a function in Udaipur to mark birth anniversary of Rabindra Nath Tagore.

11 May 2018 11:29 AM 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)

Nobel Prize in literature 2018 cancelled after sexual assault scandal

Decision was made on grounds academy is in no shape to pick winner after sex abuse allegations, financial crimes...

4 May 2018 1:20 PM IST

The idea for the initiative came to their mind when their self publishing arm The Write Place started getting a lot of talented young authors who would approach them to publish their books. (Photo: Pixabay)

Penguin Random House India acquires Hind Pocket Books

Established in 1958, highly regarded Hind Pocket Books are considered as pioneers in publishing Hindi and Urdu...

29 Jun 2018 8:48 AM IST