Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been announced as the winner of the 2021 Nobel prize for literature. The Tanzanian, UK-based author won “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. The ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2021 has been awarded jointly to Benjamin List (Germany) and David MacMillan (the USA) “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the ...

Professor Eric A. Hanushek and Dr Rukmini Banerji have been awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Development for improving learning outcomes in schools at scale. They will join nine laureates who have been awarded the Yidan Prize since its inception in 2016, ...

Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu has conferred Assam Government’s biennial Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for National Integration and National Contribution for the year 2021, on October 03, 2021, to three recipients. The three awardees are: Members of Assam branch of ...

Raksha Mantri  Shri Rajnath Singh gave away the awards to the winners of the ‘Dare to Dream 2.0’ Contest of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) in New Delhi on October 04, 2021. The Raksha Mantri gave away awards to 40 winners - 22 in the Individual category and ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 05, 2021. The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany, and Italy. Scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel ...

American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on October 04, 2021. for discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch which the award-giving body said could pave the way for new painkillers. They have been honoured for the discovery of ...

Prominent Indian industrialists Shiv Nadar and Mallika Srinivasan have been chosen by a top India-centric business advocacy group as the recipients of its 2021 Global Leadership Award. Shiv Nadar is the founder and chairman emeritus of HCL Technologies Limited. Mallika Srinivasan is the chair and ...

The Delhi-based environmental organisation “Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)” has been felicitated with the 2021 Right Livelihood Award, an international honour, also known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize. LIFE has been selected for the award for ...

Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE), a Delhi-based environmental law advocacy group, received the 2021 Right Livelihood Award, Sweden’s alternative to the Nobel Prize, for its efforts to protect the environment in India through creative use of law and legal processes. ...