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Friday, November 8, 2024
TopicNobel Prize

Topic: Nobel Prize

Nobel winners Allison & Honjo have helped reverse cancer completely in some patients

Allison and Honjo made key discoveries about immune checkpoints that later led to the development of immunotherapies that have proven successful in humans.

Nobel 2018 for medicine & chemistry is great news for science, but probably not patients

The pharma industry needs to do a better job of grappling with how success tends to bring out its worst instincts.

Campaigns to end sexual violence wins Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege Nobel Peace Prize

The award is as much in honour of sexual violence victims as the two deserving recipients.

Theresa May’s dance moves can’t hide Brexit jitters

Missing Chinese actress Fan Bingbing fined for tax evasion and a 3D-printed prosthetic bill for a hornbill in Singapore.

Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused of rape, and Kavanaugh is lying, says former classmate

North and South Korea move for peaceful relations, and the photographer accused in Nobel rape case sentenced to prison. 

FB won’t offer ‘direct help’ to poll campaigns, and Titanic relics to save bankrupt company

How UNICEF's storytelling tents are helping Somalia send children to school, and a discussion on the Nobel Prize in literature. 

V.S. Naipaul was like family. Even if you didn’t love him, he was part of your story

The Nobel Prize winner passed away Sunday at the age of 85.

N. Korea will keep its nukes & open a burger joint, Serena makes her comeback in a catsuit

Trump plans to meet Kim Kardashian, even as Chinese author says you can’t underestimate him and science rues the absence of female role models in completing the circuit.

E.C.G. Sudarshan, theoretical physicist nominated for Nobel 9 times, passes away

His most notable contribution was the Sudarshan-Glauber quantum representation of light, for which the Nobel was infamously given to Glauber only.

Naguib Mahfouz’s essays not only capture the past and present of Middle-East, but future too

The essays offer us both the portrait of a decade, and the self-portrait of one of its more important participants.

On Camera

Trump-proofing Europe is a real project. And India can benefit in this

Poland PM Donald Tusk highlighted that the ‘Trump pill’ will serve as a much-needed wake-up call for Europe to make painful but necessary structural changes.

How to Trump-proof India’s trade policy: ‘Give US tariff concessions, block Chinese dumping’

Donald Trump has been vocal about India’s high import tariffs and has threatened retaliation. Simultaneously, his tough stand on China could see Chinese goods flood India.

China unveils J-35A stealth fighter, with striking resemblance to US F-35. Here’s how they compare

The Chinese aircraft has uncanny similarities to the American F-35 jet. There are claims that China copied the design. Cyber theft of F-35 design data was reported in 2009.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.