Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the second time. He was nominated by the members of the Pakistan World Alliance (PWA) for his efforts to protect human rights and democracy. The PWA, an advocacy group founded last December, announced the nomination of Khan. “We are pleased…
NEW DELHI: Paint maker Akzo Nobel India will transfer its powder coatings business and international research and development (R&D) centre to its Dutch parent firm Akzo Nobel NV in a Rs 2,143-crore intergroup deal to streamline the company’s business. Source link
In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three minutes, for weeks on end, a caregiver carefully, dispassionately sinks needles deep into the sutures on each finger, drawing blood, to prevent the…
NEW DELHI: Bengali literature maestro Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 1913. The Swedish Academy presented the renowned award to him for his work in ‘Gitanjali‘. Gitanjali is a compilation of poems which were later turned into English prose poems by Tagore, titled Gitanjali: Song…
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not truly understand the destructive power of nuclear weapons, a 92-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki said on Monday, on the eve of his Japanese survivors’ group receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Terumi Tanaka was referring to threats made by Putin and other senior Russian officials to use…