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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
TopicNobel prize for medicine

Topic: Nobel prize for medicine

Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists who discovered the immune system’s ‘peacekeepers’

Osaka University professor Shimon Sakaguchi, Princeton PhD student Mary E. Brunkow, and US-based Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy director Fred Ramsdell win the Nobel Prize in medicine.

Nobel in Medicine 2023: How Katalin Karikó & Drew Weissman’s work helped save millions during pandemic

Hungarian biochemist Kariko & American immunologist Weismann won for research in mRNA, which enabled vaccine development for Covid. This followed decades of struggle.

Upendranath Brahmachari—forgotten Bengali scientist behind kala-azar cure got 2 Nobel nods

Kala-azar had wiped out entire villages in Asia, Africa and Latin America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Urea Stibamine was the main-stay in its treatment.

On Camera

Farrhana Bhatt on Bigg Boss 19 reopened Kashmir’s representation wound

Farrhana Bhatt’s presence on Bigg Boss 19 can’t redefine Kashmir. But it can remind the Valley that Kashmiris deserve to be seen in their full human range—not squeezed into specific categories.

Niti Aayog CEO has a message for power stakeholders. Buckle up for surge to feed EVs, data centres

Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.

India looks to Oman for spare parts to keep its fleet of Jaguars flying

India is now the only country still operating the Jaguar, long retired by its original users, France in 2005 and the UK in 2007, and secondary operators like Oman, Nigeria and Ecuador.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.