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Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore visited Sikh temple during Vancouver visit by Charlie Smith on Aug 9, 2013 at 3:55 pm http://www.straight.com/life/408561/nobel-prize-winner-rabindranath-tagore-visited-sikh-temple-during-vancouver-visit Rabindranath Tagore (seated centre) visited...

We need a surreal fantasist like Beppe Grillo to rescue Italy, says Nobel-winning playwright Dario Fo The author tells Tom Kington in Rome that the comedian, who finds himself kingmaker of the Italian government, is taking his cues from medieval comics who bedevilled the powerful by Tom...

Pak teenage crusader Malala nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Posted by Prahlad - Friday, February 1, 2013, 17:52 [IST] Delhi, Feb 1: She could become the youngest to win a Nobel Prize. Pakistani schoolgirl-turned-fighter for women's empowerment Malala Yousafzai has been nominated for...

Physics Nobel goes to Serge Haroche and David Wineland Serge Haroche (l) is based at the College de France and David Wineland is based at the US National Institute for Standards and Technology Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US will share the prize, worth 8m Swedish...

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Three Activist Women by ALAN COWELL, LAURA KASINOF & ADAM NOSSITER Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Africa’s first elected female president - her compatriot, peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner. They were the...

By David Giambusso Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) The Dalai Lama says peace in the world begins with peace in oneself. Some of his fellow Nobel laureates, however, aren't convinced. "It isn't that I'm just an angry human being, it's anger at injustice," said Jody Williams, who...

Who Needs Nobel: China Launches the Confucius Peace Prize By: Krista Mahr Photo: Protesters demand the release of jailed Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles, California, on December 5, 2010...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation...

Obama Receives Nobel Prize for Promoting Multilateralism President Obama became the third American President to receive the Nobel Peace Prize during his presidency and the fourth American President to receive the prize. Woodrow Wilson and Theodore...

Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has expressed disenchantment with people from India "bothering" him and "clogging" up his email box and dubbed as "strange" their sudden urge to reach out to him. "All sorts of people from India have been writing to me, clogging up my email box. It takes...

India-born American scientist Venkataraman Ramakrishnan may have bagged the chemstry Nobel, but the “East or West, West is the Best” policy of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has deprived India of another Nobel. The prize for physics announced on Tuesday, October 6, recognises the work...

In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writers Karl Ritter And Matt Moore, Associated Press Writers 1 hr 3 mins ago OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his...

Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz from United States and Ada Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize [ Images ] for Chemistry for their pioneering work on the ribosomes, which may help develop new medicines in decreasing the sufferings of the humanity. The Royal...

Aman Singh wrties: I got this in my email today: from our member balwant jakarta Can we do something about it? Surely, SPN would love to help him out in his endeavor... but how? Well it seems as if balwant ji is not talking about a private Khalsa/Punjabi school, but a...