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Philippines: News Site Rappler Ordered to Shut Down
29 Jun 2022
The site, co-founded by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, was known for covering outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody crackdown on illegal drugs. The move comes a day before Duterte is due to leave…
Associated Press
3 US-Based Economists Receive Nobel Prize For Work on ‘Natural Experiments’ in Labour Markets
11 Oct 2021
David Card of the University of California at Berkeley was awarded one half of the prize, while the other half was shared by Joshua Angrist from MIT and Guido Imbens from Stanford.
Associated Press
Tanzanian Author Abdulrazak Gurnah Bags Nobel Literature Prize
07 Oct 2021
Born in Zanzibar in 1948 and based in England, Gurnah is a professor at the University of Kent. He is the author of 10 novels, including “Paradise,” which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994…
Associated Press
Nobel Physics Prize Goes to 3 for Discoveries Related to Human Influences on Climate
05 Oct 2021
The three scientists are from Japan, Germany and Italy were cited for their work in “the physical modeling of Earth's climate” and “the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in…
Associated Press
Nobel Prize for Medicine Honours 2 US Scientists for Discovery of Temperature, Touch Receptors
04 Oct 2021
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for awarded for their work on the field of somatosensation.
Sudhansu Mohanty
Why Bertrand Russell is Relevant in Pandemic-Struck India
18 May 2021
A century-and-a-half ago, Russell warned that politics that taps into irrational fears and hate helps leaders evade responsibility and condemnation.
The Associated Press
2 Stanford Economists Win Nobel Prize for Auction Theory
12 Oct 2020
Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson developed new auction formats that have been used to sell radio frequencies, fishing quotas and airport landing slots.
Newsclick Team
Importance of Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize
19 Oct 2019
Indian-origin American economist Abhijit Banerjee shared this year's Nobel prize for economics with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their randomised control trial experiment approach to rid the…
Sandipan Talukdar
How Radical Scientists of the 70s Combined Science and Politics
10 Oct 2018
With the 1970s witnessing huge anti-war sentiments and feminist movements, radical scientists activists in both Britain and the USA formed science groups which considered that science cannot be…
Newsclick Report
US Nobel Winner, Who Sold His Medal to Meet Medical Bills, Dies
06 Oct 2018
Leon Lederman had to auction his Nobel medal for physics to meet sky-high healthcare costs.