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Why Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado won't attend ceremony to receive award

December 10, 2025 5:04 pm

Maria Corina Machado, who last appeared in public 11 months ago, was not in the Norwegian capital on the day of the ceremony, Nobel Institute director Kristian Berg Harpviken said

Nobel Laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai's desolate elegy: In place of hope, a vision of silent angels

December 21, 2025 2:14 pm

László Krasznahorkai, who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, delivered a stark lecture at Stockholm that was a metaphysical dispatch from a world he perceives as spiritually terminal.

Nobel, Booker and how two Hungarian writers redrew the world's literary centre

November 16, 2025 10:10 am

If Krasznahorkai is the reclusive Hungarian prophet of “apocalyptic terror”, Szalay is the Hungarian-British chronicler of rootless modernity

Plans afoot to develop quantum tech-driven network to safeguard India's digital assets, economy: DST secy Abhay Karandikar

November 03, 2025 11:36 am

Prof Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, speaks about the National Quantum Mission and how research in quantum technology is poised to benefit the country.

The Economics Nobel returns to growth: Why innovation still matters

October 29, 2025 1:23 pm

After years of prizes focused on niche or data-driven themes, the 2025 Nobel in Economics puts growth theory back at the centre of the discipline. By honouring Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt for their work on innovation and creative destruction, the prize reaffirms the timeless question: what truly drives prosperity?

Why the study of growth is always a study of renewal

October 27, 2025 1:34 pm

Growth cannot be measured only in numbers or output. It is a story of renewal - of how societies reorganise, how ideas travel, and how knowledge and inventions redefine the boundaries of progress. But how does it connect to this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics? 

UPSC Issue at a Glance | Nobel Prize 2025 Overview: Winners, Themes and Key Takeaways

November 10, 2025 11:44 am

This year's Nobel Prizes have awarded discoveries and achievements that have benefitted humankind in a myriad of ways. Who all won the 2025 Nobel Prize and why? Here is an exclusive coverage of 2025 Nobel Prize for your UPSC CSE and other competitive exams.

A history of creative destruction: From Karl Marx to the 2025 Economics Nobel winners

October 14, 2025 6:20 pm

A look at the evolution of the theory of creative destruction, widely regarded by economists as a defining feature of capitalist economies.

‘Brilliance’ is not unbiased. Nor is the Nobel Prize

October 14, 2025 12:24 pm

Omar Yaghi’s Nobel Prize in science and Maria Corina Machado’s in peace are really a measure of how visibility and recognition are shaped by global politics

The Nobel Prize just validated the most powerful idea in AI Economics – creative destruction of intelligence

October 21, 2025 7:25 am

It isn’t just theory – as large language models transform industries, progress requires not just invention, but institutions to manage its fallout

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In Pictures: Nobel laureate Machado arrives in Oslo, hours after award ceremony

December 11, 2025 6:43 pm

Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado arrived in Oslo in the early hours of Thursday, just hours after the official award ceremony had ended, marking her first public appearance in nearly a year

Lesser-known facts about Marie Curie

November 11, 2025 3:01 pm

Today marks the 158th birth anniversary of the legendary woman scientist, Marie Curie. Here are a few facts about her, you might not know about.

Interesting facts about Nobel Prize

October 10, 2025 10:41 am

As the ongoing announcements have commenced for the Nobel Prize 2025, let's get to know these are six facts about the nobel prize, you had absolutely no idea about.

Dussehra in Delhi to mourning in Thailand: Top photos from around the world this week

October 09, 2022 1:35 pm

From the devastation left behind by Hurricane Ian in Florida and Cuba, to a deadly stampede at an Indonesian soccer stadium, to a massacre at a daycare centre in Thailand, here is a look at some of the most compelling images from around the world in the past week

Meet Swedish scientist Svante Paabo, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine

October 04, 2022 2:41 pm

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries in human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA and helped us understand what makes humans unique and provided key insights into our immune system.

Nobel Prize 2017 goes to ICAN: A look at previous winners from India

October 06, 2017 6:37 pm

The Nobel Prize winner of 2017 is International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). From India, there have been five winners of the Nobel Prize. Here is a compilation of the same.

Kailash Satyarthi hands over his Nobel to President Pranab Mukherjee

January 07, 2015 4:23 pm

The medal will be kept in Rashtrapati Bhawan and will be later put on display for the public.

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Meet the activists fighting sexual violence who received the Nobel Peace Prize

June 22, 2020 6:14 pm

Nadia Murad, a survivor of sexual violence by the Islamic State, and Dr Denis Mukwege, a gynecological surgeon, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their campaigns against the use of rape as a weapon of war.

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