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2019 Literature Nobel Laureate Peter Handke steers clear of controversy in speech, speaks of mother's influence on writing
Fp Staff • 5 years agoThe choice of Peter Handke as this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize prompted substantial criticism over his defence of Serbs’ actions during the wars and for his speaking at the 2006 funeral of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who died while facing trial for war crimes.
Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 winner Olga Tokarczuk looks forward to a new form of fiction in a 'differentiated, divided' world
Fp Staff • 5 years agoOlga Tokarczuk is the 2018 Nobel literature laureate. Her prize was announced only two months ago because the Swedish Academy postponed naming a winner last year due to internal turmoil connected with a sex abuse scandal.
Nobel Physics Prize awarded to three scientists for work on the cosmos
Tech2 News Staff • 6 years agoJames Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for 2019.
PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate 106th Indian Science Congress on 3 January
• 6 years agoModi will also address an audience of about 30,000 scientists, researchers and students.
VS Naipaul dies at 85: The Nobel laureate is gone, but is the man still redeemable?
Kartik Maini • 7 years agoVS Naipaul – a writer who spoke of fractured postcolonial worlds with piercing honesty – shall himself be condemned to fractured memory and posterity.
VS Naipaul, with his rage and flaws, will be remembered for unflinching honesty, mastery of language
Rakeshbedi • 7 years agoVS Naipaul's was an all-encompassing rage: he raged against half-formed societies; he raged against public defecation; he raged against the colonisers and he raged against the colonised.
Kurdish refugee wins equivalent of Nobel for Maths, to have it stolen in minutes
• 7 years agoBirkar gained asylum & citizenship in Britain before being established as a brilliant mathematician
Gene-editing, hailed as future of disease eradication, seriously damages DNA: Study
• 7 years agoResearch showed that "changes in the DNA have been seriously underestimated before now".
India must end silence on sexual abuse of children, says Kailash Satyarthi
• 8 years agoChild rights activist and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi on Thursday underlined the need for an effective judiciary to end sexual abuse of children
Liu Xiaobo dies at 61: Chinese Nobel laureate's body cremated in presence of friends, family
• 8 years agoChina's Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who died while in custody following a battle with cancer, was cremated on Saturday, officials said.