Mumbai: A 45-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday by a squad led by the additional police commissioner (western region) for allegedly impersonating a NASA scientist and cheating single women on matrimony sites. According to cops, the accused, identified as Atul Sharma, a resident of Lokhandwala in Andheri (West) used to meet eligible single women through matrimonial websites. He would make wedding plans with them, and lure them into investing huge...
12:54 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Washington: Amartya Sen, Indian economist and 1998 Nobel Prize winner in economics, has been felicitated with the National Medals of Arts and Humanities award by the US President Barack Obama at a glittering White House function in Washington. "We even have an economist, which we don't always get on stage," Obama said referring to 78-year-old Sen, before he presented the 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities. "Sen is...
08:27 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: US President Barack Obama will award nine scholars the 2011 National Medal for Humanities including India's Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen. Sen will be felicitated for his insights into the causes of poverty, famine, and injustice. "By applying philosophical thinking to questions of policy, he has changed how standards of living are measured and increased our understanding of how to fight hunger," said a White House statement. The...
08:52 PM, Feb 11, 2012
London: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the Indian-origin scientist whose pioneering work in Molecular Biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has been knighted in the New Years Honours List 2012. Ramakrishnan, a US citizen, is based at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He has been conferred knighthood "for services to Molecular Biology", according to an official announcement in London. He will be called 'Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan' after...
07:49 AM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: After honouring Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama last year, Jamia Milia Islamia will this year honour economist Amartya Sen, another Nobel Laureate, with an honorary doctorate. Sen, whose work on welfare economics, particularly on the causes of famine, won him a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, will be conferred with an honorary degree on Friday. Though the University wanted to award the doctorate to the Harvard...
09:55 AM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: Indian-origin Nobel laureate and MIT's Alfred P Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus H Gobind Khorana died on Wednesday. He was 89. A winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine and made seminal contributions to genetics. Khorana was born in India in 1922 in Raipur, Punjab that is now part of Pakistan. In an autobiographical note written upon winning the Nobel Prize, Khorana wrote,...
11:49 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Christopher A Sims and Thomas J Sargent have jointly won the Nobel Prize in Economics this year for their contribution in "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy". It is needless to say that both of them have contributed significantly to the literature of economics for more than 40 years. The Academy said in a statement: "One of the main tasks of macroeconomic research is to comprehend how...
07:30 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Stockholm: Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the Nobel economics prize on Monday "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. The prize committee said the winners have developed methods for answering questions such as how economic growth and inflation are affected by a temporary increase in the interest rate or a tax cut. Sargent and Sims - both...
05:02 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Oslo: The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the three women "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." "I am very very happy about this prize," said Karman, a...
02:39 PM, Oct 07, 2011
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2006, May 24th, Shillong, Meghalaya: The early summer rain drizzled outside the Shillong's State Central Library auditorium. As I sat inside, Lou Majaw, (aka ...
12:36 PM, Oct 07, 2011
Jaipur: Author of folk tales Vijaydan Detha, also called Rajasthan's Shakespeare, is elated that his name is doing the rounds for the Nobel prize for literature this year. "Even a stone will get joyful over such good news... I am a human being so you can imagine how happy I am," Detha, who has authored over 800 books. "I have given my entire life to Rajasthan's folk tales. It is...
11:46 AM, Oct 06, 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Daniel Shechtman of Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel "for the discovery of quasicrystals". In quasicrystals, we find the fascinating mosaics of the Arabic world reproduced at the level of atoms: regular patterns that never repeat themselves. However, the configuration found in quasicrystals was considered impossible, and Daniel Shechtman had to fight...
03:46 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Kochi: Leading poet and critic K Satchidanandan is happy to figure on the list of 18 probables in the race for the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature this year. Speaking to the media on Tuesday, the veteran writer expressed happiness at the news. "I feel it is as good as getting the award that my name is there in the list of probables," said 65-year-old Satchidanandan, who was in the...
12:25 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Stockholm: Three scientists shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of exploding stars, the prize committee said on Tuesday. One half of the 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.45 million) went to US citizen Saul Perlmutter and the other half to US-Australian citizen Brian Schmidt and US scientist Adam Riess. "They have studied several dozen exploding stars, called supernovae,...
04:34 PM, Oct 04, 2011
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