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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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Topic: Nobel Prize

ThePrint Quiz, 4 May, 2025: Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore’s work profoundly shaped modern Indian literature and music. In this edition of ThePrint Quiz, test your knowledge of the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize.

2024 Nobel Prize in Economics disregards history. It minimises effects of race, colonialism

The Nobel Prize in Economics generates an implied hierarchy of knowledge, and rewards particular ways of thinking. This has great consequence for what ideas are spread and adopted.

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson & James Robinson win 2024 Nobel economics prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday the economists had been feted ‘for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity’. The economics prize was the final one to be given out this year.

Our take on BJP’s Haryana win, J&K elections, & Ratan Tata’s death

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Nobel has a habit of ignoring women. Rosalind Lee didn’t even stand a chance

Crunch the numbers in any direction. Cherry-pick the years. The answer will always be the same: if the Nobel Committee has to snub somebody, it will be a woman.

Pain, refracted through poetry, reigns in the novels of literature Nobel laureate Han Kang

Han Kang, first South Korean author to be awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, previously won International Booker for her novel The Vegetarian, which was key to opening global doors for her.

Ratan Tata was a patriot and nation-builder India will miss

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Chemistry Nobel recognises work on proteins; winning trio include chess master, theoretical physicist

In keeping with theme of 2024 Physics Nobel, prize in Chemistry too recognises work done through computation & modelling with neural networks.

2024 Physics Nobel for AI scientists. How they pioneered machine learning modelled on human brain

American scientist John Hopfield’s network can save info & reconstruct it. British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton’s Boltzmann machine was an early example of a generative model.

On Camera

India’s amphibious operations depend on contingencies. Can the Armed Forces adapt?

The declassified doctrine outlines the framework for planning and execution of amphibious operations by integrating maritime, air and land domains.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?