Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 has been awarded by the Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien) on Thursday 5 October 2017, to the British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
According to Sara Danius, of the Swedish...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 has been awarded on Wednesday October 4, 2017 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to three biophysicists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution". Cryo-electron microscopy is “a c...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 has been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy on Tuesday October 3, 2017 to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne, three Americans members of the LIGO-Virgo detector collaboration, for their pioneering role in the detection of gravitational waves; "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the obse...
INS Kiltan, the latest indigenously-built anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette was commissioned into the force on Monday 16 October 2017 by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam; in presence of navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba; augmenting the Indian Navy’s strike capability in the Indian Ocean Region. It will boost force’s capability to detect and targe...
India Globally ranks Second in the World in Agricultural Sector and eleventh and twelfth in Services and Industrial sectors respectively; but for the Farm Sector the situation in India is paradoxical, as this sector on the one hand is of utmost importance and on the other hand the country faces structural handicaps that have prevented it from ro...
India and the European Union (EU) 14th annual Summit was held in New Delhi on Friday 6 October 2017; between Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, and Mr. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and Mr. Jean Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission. The summit gave a political impetus to the process for a fair and free trade agreement. It has given the two sides a much cle...
Satellite images from NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) Web Fire Mapper, of Tuesday 31 October 2017 clearly revealed that stubble burning became more aggressive in Punjab and Haryana, leading to haze, smoke and other environmental and health concerns, despite numerous warnings by a green court and environmental authori...
India and China are on the same road of globalization, with interests that could collide over issues such as access to markets, natural resources or strategic partners. Both are populous Asian nations experiencing high rates of economic growth with more exposure to international market forces. The two countries have reconciled to be on a path to perpetual cooperationContinue Reading...
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for 2017, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, has been won on Monday October 9, 2017 by Richard H. Thaler, born in 1945 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA, aged 72, a professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Chicago’s Business School, for “his contributions to behavioural economics”, upending the lo...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 has been awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, on Monday October 2, 2017 jointly to three Americans Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm; the Scientists elucidated how a life-form's “inner clock" can fluctua...