Nobel Judges

NDTV: Professor Amartya Sen, thank you very much for joining us. It's really great to talk to you. I must say, that this book, "Home in the World", both Radhika and I read it

The members, who will be part-time, so far include constitutional law experts, civil rights advocates, academics, journalists, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights.

The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, on Friday announced an Iranian-born poet and a judge as new members as it seeks to recover from a #MeToo scandal that forced it to postpone this year's Nobel.

Battling to remove the smudge on its reputation after being judged the world's third worst performing airline, national carrier Air India has posted a proud tweet: A Thank You note from Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, who was a passenger in its Delhi-London flight. The trouble was, the flight was late.

Five days after Bob Dylan was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, no one knows how he feels about the prestigious award not even the Nobel judges.

Nobel Prizes cannot be revoked, so the judges must put a lot of thought into their selections for the six awards, which will be announced in the next two weeks.

Two members of the assembly that awards the Nobel prize for medicine are to quit for failing to heed warnings about a major ethics scandal, the panel said on Tuesday.

London-based NRI businessmen G P Hinduja and his brother S P Hinduja have been judged the second-most influential Asians in Britain, next only to UK's business secretary Sajid Javid, in a list of 101 prominent people including Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

London-based NRI businessmen G P Hinduja and his brother S P Hinduja have been judged the second-most influential Asians in Britain, next only to UK's business secretary Sajid Javid, in a list of 101 prominent people including Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Albie Sachs, the South African judge who rose to fame for his role in the anti-apartheid struggle, was on Saturday awarded the Tang Prize, touted as Asia's version of the Nobels, for his contributions to human rights and justice.

Pablo Neruda's remains will be exhumed next month to determine if the Nobel prize winning poet died of cancer as commonly believed or was killed by agents serving Augusto Pinochet, a judge said Monday.

NDTV: Professor Amartya Sen, thank you very much for joining us. It's really great to talk to you. I must say, that this book, "Home in the World", both Radhika and I read it

The members, who will be part-time, so far include constitutional law experts, civil rights advocates, academics, journalists, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights.

The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, on Friday announced an Iranian-born poet and a judge as new members as it seeks to recover from a #MeToo scandal that forced it to postpone this year's Nobel.

Battling to remove the smudge on its reputation after being judged the world's third worst performing airline, national carrier Air India has posted a proud tweet: A Thank You note from Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, who was a passenger in its Delhi-London flight. The trouble was, the flight was late.

Five days after Bob Dylan was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, no one knows how he feels about the prestigious award not even the Nobel judges.

Nobel Prizes cannot be revoked, so the judges must put a lot of thought into their selections for the six awards, which will be announced in the next two weeks.

Two members of the assembly that awards the Nobel prize for medicine are to quit for failing to heed warnings about a major ethics scandal, the panel said on Tuesday.

London-based NRI businessmen G P Hinduja and his brother S P Hinduja have been judged the second-most influential Asians in Britain, next only to UK's business secretary Sajid Javid, in a list of 101 prominent people including Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

London-based NRI businessmen G P Hinduja and his brother S P Hinduja have been judged the second-most influential Asians in Britain, next only to UK's business secretary Sajid Javid, in a list of 101 prominent people including Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Albie Sachs, the South African judge who rose to fame for his role in the anti-apartheid struggle, was on Saturday awarded the Tang Prize, touted as Asia's version of the Nobels, for his contributions to human rights and justice.

Pablo Neruda's remains will be exhumed next month to determine if the Nobel prize winning poet died of cancer as commonly believed or was killed by agents serving Augusto Pinochet, a judge said Monday.