London: Chinese agents have trained Tibetan women to poison the Dalai Lama while posing as a devotee, the Tibetan spiritual leader has said. The Nobel Laureate told Sunday Telegraph that he had received reports from inside Tibet warning about some Chinese agents training Tibetan women for a mission to poison him. "We received some sort of information from Tibet," he was quoted as saying. "Some Chinese agents training some Tibetans,...
11:16 AM, May 13, 2012
Chicago: Poverty, a lack of education and arms proliferation present daunting obstacles, yet peace can be achieved if world leaders are more willing to talk and young people are encouraged to get involved, Nobel Peace Prize winners said on Monday at their annual meeting. Former US President Jimmy Carter and ex-presidents Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union and Lech Walesa of Poland were among the Peace Prize winners in...
02:02 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Davos: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Sunday blamed the education system for driving the young to be very mundane and detracting them from pursuing social objectives. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, he said that money is now the king, becoming an "intoxication in the system". "We don't have in our education system that vision which directs what we want to be, what we want to see the world to...
08:19 PM, Jan 29, 2012
New York: A notebook belonging to legendary Indian poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, containing poems and drafts of his work, will go under the hammer in New York at a Sotheby's auction next month. The previously unknown manuscript notebook dates back to 1928 and contains 12 poems and lyrics for as many songs in Bengali, including some heavily amended drafts of Tagore's subsequently published works. The poems included in...
10:44 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Nairobi: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Monday mourned the death of Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, who died of cancer here Sunday night. Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, becoming the first environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the honour. The 71-year-old activist was founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement and patron of the UNEP. She was one of Africa's foremost environmental campaigners, internationally recognised...
07:08 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Dhaka: A Bangladesh government probe cleared micro-lender Grameen Bank of financial irregularities, the finance minister said on Monday, but the finding will not change the decision to fire Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Yunus, 70, was dismissed by a central bank order - upheld by the High Court and Supreme Court - on the grounds that he had overstayed in his position and refused requests to quit. Yunus, winner of the...
05:47 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Dhaka: Bangladesh's highest court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus against his dismissal as managing director of Grameen Bank, the microlender he founded, lawyers said. Associates say Yunus's removal is prompted by government vendetta after he briefly considered a political career to challenge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, 70, made the plea last month after the country's high court upheld a central bank order dismissing him...
04:46 PM, Apr 05, 2011
Dhaka: In a major setback to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladesh High Court on Tuesday upheld his dismissal from the Grameen Bank he founded nearly three decades ago. The petitions by 70-year-old Yunus challenging legality of a Central Bank order removing him as Managing Director of the Grameen Bank "are rejected," said justice Momtaz Uddin Ahmed, the senior member of a two-judge bench which delivered a lengthy judgement after...
03:41 PM, Mar 08, 2011
Dhaka: Bangladesh High Court is expected to deliver its verdict on Monday on a petition by Nobel laureate and micro-financier Muhammad Yunus challenging the legality of a central bank order removing him as the chief of the Grameen Bank. "We would make our submission when the court would reconvene," Bangladesh Attorney General Mahbub-e-Alam said. The two-member bench comprising judges Momtaz Uddin Ahmed and Gobinda Chandra Tagore adjourned the court after...
08:37 AM, Mar 07, 2011
Dhaka: A day after he was sacked as the chief of the Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus on Thursday took his battle to the court to overturn the government's decision to remove him from the institution he founded. Yunus petitioned the High Court challenging his sacking after the Bangladeshi Central Bank ordered him out, saying he had overstayed his tenure. Apparently keeping the high-profile nature of the case,...
08:49 PM, Mar 03, 2011
Dhaka: Nobel laureate Mohammed Younus, a celebrated pioneer of micro-finance was on Wednesday forced out from the Grameen Bank, he founded nearly three decades ago, amid a growing spat with the Bangladesh government, officials said. Yunus was relieved of his duties as Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, a central bank official said. "We have sent a letter to him (Yunus) containing the Bangladesh Bank decision." he said. The exit...
07:02 PM, Mar 02, 2011
Jaipur: Agitated by the categorisation often assigned to non-Western writers by the Western world, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk feels non-English authors do not get better representation globally. The author, who did not seem to be in the best of humour during a discussion at the Jaipur Literature Festival, said that even an event like the one here was not a true representation of different voices in literature because it was...
02:45 PM, Jan 24, 2011
Jaipur: His characteristic literary style was born out of a quest to re-discover the roots of a diminishing Ottoman Islamic tradition in a westernising Turkey, but Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk believes one does not have to be rhetorical in wanting to preserve the historical culture of his birthplace. "What is my cultural tradition?" a young Pamuk was struck by this question while in the US where he was enormously impressed...
06:52 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Panaji: Temple bells and compositions by India's legendary creative genius Rabindranath Tagore will echo within the walls of a beautifully restored 450-year-old chapel - a Christian place of worship - in Goa next month. The Monte Hill Music Festival, organised annually by the Goa-based Portuguese cultural institute Fundacao Oriente and hosted within the restored precincts of the Our Lady of Mount, Old Goa, located 15 km from here, will also...
02:16 PM, Jan 19, 2011
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