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Life wouldn't have been wasted if I didn't get the Nobel: Amartya Sen

There are greater goals in life than winning the Nobel Prize. At least, there ought to be. Or so, feels Nobel laureate thinker-philosopher-welfare economist Professor Amartya Sen who dubbed the award as a "nice thing to have", but opined that his life wouldn't have been wasted even without it. Sen said that the money he received from the prize helped him start Pratichi Trust, a research-based charity focussing on education and healthcare of children. "Nobel is an award I received but I don't think my life would have been wasted even if I didn't get it. It was nice to have received it. I got some money and could start a charity called Pratichi Trust involving education and healthcare elements of children," Sen said while speaking to PTI in an exclusive interview at his ancestral abode in Bolpur in Birbhum district of West Bengal. "There's also a little bit of luck involved in whether or not you end up getting one of these prizes... I do not think I had a goal to get the Nobel or any

Arundhati Roy awarded UK's Pen Pinter Prize for her 'unflinching' writings

Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy, currently facing the threat of prosecution over historic comments on Kashmir 14 years ago, was on Thursday honoured with the prestigious Pen Pinter Prize 2024 for her unflinching and unswerving writings. The prize, established in 2009 by the charity English PEN, defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter. Roy expressed her delight at being named this year's winner amid an incomprehensible turn the world is taking. I am delighted to accept the PEN Pinter prize. I wish Harold Pinter were with us today to write about the almost incomprehensible turn the world is taking. Since he isn't, some of us must do our utmost to try to fill his shoes, said 62-year-old Roy. The renowned author, who won the Booker Prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things', was chosen by this year's judges Chair of English PEN Ruth Borthwick; actor and activist Khalid Abdalla; and writer and musici

Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan accused of insulting China's heroes

His writing won China's first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping's China? That's the question at the center of a high-profile lawsuit now driving a debate about nationalism in China. Patriotic campaigns have become more common in recent years in China, as online nationalists attack journalists, writers or other public figures they say have offended the country's dignity, but it is unusual for a figure as prominent as Mo Yan to be targeted. Patriotic blogger Wu Wanzheng, who goes by Truth-Telling Mao Xinghuo online, sued under a law that carries civil penalties and, in some cases, criminal punishments for perceived offenses against China's heroes and martyrs. Wu claimed Mo's books have smeared the Chinese Communist Party's reputation, beautified enemy Japanese soldiers and insulted former revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. The lawsuit filed last month demands that the author apologize to all Chinese people, the country's martyrs and Mao, and pay dama

Compassion new culture of world, youth will take it forward: Nobel laureate

Compassion is going to be the new culture of world and the youth is going to take it forward, Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday. Addressing the fourth 'Laureates and Leaders for Children' Conclave here, the Nobel prize recipient said his Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation had launched this movement to create a compassionate world for the children and help build a world without injustice and atrocities. "Today I dream of a world without exploitation, without injustice, without atrocities. I dream of an inclusive world. A world where we learn how to work together," he said. "My biggest trust lies in young people. Compassion is going to be the new culture of world. My young friends will take it forward. Hence, let us enlighten this path," the Nobel laureate said. "We are one humanity. We have one shared future and hence we launched this movement," he added. Former director general of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) R A Mashelkar, child ri

India set to boost its economic, geopolitical role: Nobel Laureate Spence

India is poised to boost its economic and geopolitical role in the coming decades, helped by an evolving demographic dividend, rapidly expanding digital economy and GDP growth rates that top the world's major economies, Nobel Laureate Michael Spence has said. Spence further said India's leap on the technology front will be a key catalyst for the economic expansion of the nation, currently the world's fifth biggest economy and its pivotal position in international affairs. "As somebody who has spent the last 25 years thinking about growth in one form or another in virtually every corner of the world, let me just say that the major economy with the highest potential growth rate is India," he told ET NOW. The eminent economist noted that India has successfully developed, by far, the best digital economy and financial architecture in the world. "It is a transformational architecture," he said. Spence said the relatively open global economic system that has been in place for over 70 ye

India built best digital economy, finance infra: Nobel winner Spence

Noting that India is a major economy with the highest potential growth rate right now, Nobel laureate economist A Michael Spence said the country has successfully developed by far the best digital economy and finance architecture in the world. Spence, who was awarded the Nobel prize in Economic Sciences in 2001, shared his views during an interaction with students and faculty at the Bennett University in Greater Noida on Monday. "The major economy with the highest potential growth rate right now is India. India has successfully developed by far the best digital economy and finance architecture in the world. It is open, competitive and delivers services of an inclusive kind to a vast array of territory," the Nobel laureate said, according to a statement issued by the varsity. Spence also pointed out that the world is experiencing a "kind of regime change in the global economy". Tracing the evolution of the global economy after World War II, Spence said that the 70-year-old global ..

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Chandrayaan-3 to brain decoder, top 10 scientific achievements of 2023

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Robert Solow, Nobelist who tied technology to economic growth, dies at 99

Solow's students over his many years at MIT included Mario Draghi, who would go on to lead the European Central Bank and serve as Italy's prime minister

Children of Narges Mohammadi to accept Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf

The children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi are set to accept this year's Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in a ceremony on Sunday in the Norwegian capital. Mohammadi is renowned for campaigning for women's rights and democracy in her country, as well as fighting against the death penalty. Ali and Kiana Rahmani, Mohammadi's twin 17-year-old children who live in exile in Paris with their father, will be given the prestigious award at Oslo City Hall, after which they will give the Nobel Peace Prize lecture in their mother's name. Mohammadi, 51, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in October for her decades of activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. She is currently detained in a prison in Tehran. At a news conference in Oslo on Saturday, Kiana Rahmani read out a message from her mother, in which the imprisoned activist praised the role international media played in conveying the voice of dissenters, protesters and hu

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TMS Ep541: Maruti expansion, India Inc restructuring, market, Nobel disease

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Claudia Goldin wins the Economics Nobel for work on gender pay gap

The economic sciences award was added by Sweden's central bank in 1968, called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Nobel Prize 2023 in Economic Sciences awarded to Claudia Goldin

Economic historian and labour economist, Claudia Goldin was recognised 'for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes'

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: What is an attosecond?

In 2023, researchers Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier clinched the Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering work with attosecond-long light flashes, revolutionising electron study. >

Nobel Peace Prize 2023 awarded to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi

Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women's rights advocate, has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2023

Nobel Prize winners in 2023, check the complete list, name and fields below

The Nobel Prize winners for 2023 belong to a variety of different fields, a few awards are yet to be announced. Here is the full list of all the Nobel Prize winners in 2023

Norwegian author Jon Fosse awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

64-year-old Norwegian author has been recognised for his 'innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 goes to three scientists; details here

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their discovery and synthesis of quantum dots, nanoparticles so little that their size decides their properties