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2007 Noble Prize for Physiology and Physics announced - 09 Oct 2007
Gruenberg shares the Noble prize for Physics October is a month of for the chosen few... to determine their function. The technology, which has made it to win the Noble prize... on 15 th of this month. Noble Prize has a history of Will Alfred Noble left

Noble Prize, AstraZeneca under scrutiny for corruption claims - 19 Dec 2008
London, Dec 19 (ANI): The integrity of the Noble Prize was questioned... year's prize for medicine. The London-based multinational pharmaceutical company and the Noble Prize have come under the scrutiny of prosecutors, who want

Lady Lessing wins the Noble Prize for Literature - 12 Oct 2007
deserved for her depth in literary oeuvre. The most prized Noble Prize made her to be the oldest one to get this prize in recognition of her work. The Royal.... She added "The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious and glamorous of all

Al Gore and IPCC together wins Noble Peace prize - 12 Oct 2007
Newstrack India Oct 12: Al Gore to share his Noble Prize... said that by awarding Noble Prize for 2007 to IPCC and Al Gore the Norwegian... of IPCC sharing Noble Prize for peace with Al Gore, which though he is not able

Noble Prize for economics goes to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson - 16 Oct 2007
grateful, George Wald who won Noble Prize for medicine in the year 1967. With the announcement of Noble Prize for Physics, 2007 Nobel Prize spell has come... Newstrack India Oct 16: The Nobel Prize is an honor unique

Mumbai Marathon for a noble cause - 16 Nov 2007
source of charity with a noble cause, as it would be benefiting numerous people... edition, with an enhanced prize of US$240,000, up US$10,000 over last year, when... a combined prize pool of just over USD one million, the largest prize pool

Anne Enright accorded with Man Booker Prize for fiction - 18 Oct 2007
Newstrack India Oct 18: After Noble Prize bestowment, here comes... in London’s Guildhall. Anne Enright was awarded the Man Booker Prize.... She walks ahead of Ian Mc Ewan, who earlier had won this prize in 1998

Women Noble Prize winner urged to accelerate release of Aung San Suu Kyi - 24 Oct 2007
Newstrack India Oct 24 : To accelerate the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, a pro-democratic leader of Myanmar, six Women Nobel Prize winners have insisted.... She won Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991 for her campaign supporting restoration

Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus visits Manipal Cure and Care centre in Bangalore - 01 Jan 2008
Bangalore, August 20 (ANI/Business Wire India): Manipal Cure and Care (MCC) was graced by the presence of Muhammad Yunus, the Noble Peace Prize awardee of 2006 accompanied by Vidar Jorgensen - President Grameen America.  Dr. Satish

Benazir to be conferred Irish peace prize posthumously - 02 Jan 2008
Convention’ has come forward to ordain her with Tipperary Peace Prize... or surrender to terrorism.” “Her selection as Peace Prize recipient... for his peace work in Darfur, former Noble Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Rev Ian Paislay

New malaria vaccine successful, to go for trial in 2008 - 19 Oct 2007
Newstrack India Oct 19 : Sir, Ronald Ross, an Indian born, English physician won noble prize in 1902, for discovering the malarial parasite... the disease. In 1948, Paul Muller was awarded Nobel Prize for in Physiology

'Laser frequency comb' to measure the acceleration of the Universe - 01 Jan 2008
Munich, September 5 (ANI): Scientists have demonstrated a Noble Prize-winning technology called a 'laser frequency comb', which may be used to measure the acceleration of the Universe. Astronomers use instruments called spectrographs

Black cat commandos donate blood for noble cause - 18 Dec 2008
Manesar (Haryana), Dec 18 (ANI): The dare devil Black cat commandos of elite National Security Guard today took lead in donating blood for the noble cause of mankind at a special blood donation camp, organized at NSG Garrison, Manesar

Lt. Gen Noble Thamburaj takes over as Vice Chief of the Army staff - 01 Jan 2009
New Delhi, Jan 1 (ANI): Lieutenant General Noble Thamburaj assumed the office of Vice Chief of the Army staff here today.  Lieutenant General Noble Thamburaj, a 1969 batch officer, had a distinguished career spanning 38 years.  

US economist wins 2008 Nobel Prize - 13 Oct 2008
Stockholm, Oct 13 (IANS) US economist Paul Krugman has won the 2008 Nobel Prize for economics, the prize committee announced here Monday. The prize - also called The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred

Swedish Academy sets date for Nobel prize announcement - 01 Jan 2008
Stockholm, Oct 3 (DPA) The 2008 winner of the Nobel Literature Prize... the 2007 literature prize.  The Nobel week announcements begin Monday (Oct 6) when the Karolinska Institute is due to announce the medicine prize. 

Swedish Academy sets date for Nobel prize announcement - 06 Oct 2008
Stockholm, Oct 3 (DPA) The 2008 winner of the Nobel Literature Prize... the 2007 literature prize.  The Nobel week announcements begin Monday (Oct 6) when the Karolinska Institute is due to announce the medicine prize. 

US congratulates Ahtisaari on Nobel Prize - 11 Oct 2008
president won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. 'The United States warmly... to award the Nobel Prize to Martti Ahtisaari,' State Department spokesman Sean

Diana Ross to perform at Nobel Peace Prize gig - 18 Oct 2008
Peace Prize Concert in December. The 64-year-old singer will headline the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in honour of the 2008 laureate, Finnish peace mediator... Finnish President Ahtisaari won the prize for his mediation work. "The Nobel

Nobel Laureate and Canadian researcher share Decent Work Research prize - 05 Jun 2008
Decent Work Research Prize 2008 to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz... the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, said that being selected for the Decent Work Research Prize was “a fantastic honour”. Professor Harry

Italian scientist 'robbed' of Nobel Prize - 08 Oct 2008
it charges as the unfair exclusion of an Italian researcher from this year's Nobel Prize... the prize to US researcher Yoichiro Nambu and his Japanese colleagues Makoto Kobayashi... of this year's Nobel prize, worth 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) will go

Japanese, US researchers share Nobel prize for chemistry - 08 Oct 2008
Stockholm, Oct 8 (DPA) Three US-based researchers shared the Nobel prize... fluorescent protein, GFP.'   The three share the prize worth 10 million... of dynamite Alfred Novel who endowed the prize. 

Two Japanese, US scientist win physics Nobel Prize - 07 Oct 2008
Stockholm, Oct 7 (IANS) Two Japanese and a US scientist shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics, according to the prize committee Tuesday. Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa were named for the year's Nobel

Nobel Peace Prize for Finnish statesman Martti Ahtisaari - 10 Oct 2008
Oslo, Oct 10 (IANS) Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, who has played a major role in UN peacekeeping operations for over three decades, was Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008. In awarding the prize, the Norwegian

Indians among four to get Alternate Nobel Prize - 01 Jan 2008
Stockholm, Oct 1 (IANS) India's Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan and their organisation LAFTI (Land for the Tillers' Freedom) have been awarded the Alternate Nobel Prize 2008. They have been given the award 'for two long

Indians among four to get Alternate Nobel Prize - 06 Oct 2008
Stockholm, Oct 1 (IANS) India's Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan and their organisation LAFTI (Land for the Tillers' Freedom) have been awarded the Alternate Nobel Prize 2008. They have been given the award 'for two long

Lydia Davis wins Man Booker Prize - 23 May 2013
London, May 23 (IANS) American author Lydia Davis was declared the winner of the fifth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony held at the Victoria..., is not for the lazy at all but takes time, skill and effort".The prize is worth 60,000 pounds

Indian physicist wins Lars Onsager prize - 10 Oct 2008
the prestigious Lars Onsager prize for 2009 to physicist Sriram Shastry of India, who...) in the US. The Lars Onsager prize was established in 1993 to recognise... said the Onsager prize recognises Shastry 'for pioneering work in developing

Congolese physician wins 2008 Olof Palme Prize - 09 Jan 2009
of the 2008 Olof Palme Prize for his 'work for peace and human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo'. The prize, worth $75,000, was created in 1987... the most distant'.   A prize ceremony was planned here at the end

Radiohead and Robert Plant nominated for Mercury Prize - 01 Jan 2008
Music Prize. While Radiohead has been nominated for 'In Rainbows', Plant... won the prize with the Arctic Monkeys in 2006, and their follow-up made the shortlist in 2007.  There are 12 albums on the Mercury Prize shortlist, awarded

Nehru was nominated for Nobel peace prize 11 times - 14 Oct 2008
leading statesmen, for the peace prize, not once but on 11 occasions. Though... India's president (1962-67).  In 1950, the most coveted prize in the world... of the US, Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1946, Lewis Hoskins on behalf

President witnesses ballet based on noble cause - 25 Feb 2008
The president of India Pratibha Patil fished out her valuable and demanding time for watching a ballet programme titled

German, French scientists share Nobel Prize for Medicine - 06 Oct 2008
Stockholm, Oct 6 (IANS) Harald zur Hausen of Germany, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France Monday won the Nobel Prize in Physiology... decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008 with one half

Lydia Davis bags Man Booker Prize - 23 May 2013
the winner of the fifth 60,000 pounds Man Booker International Prize at aceremony... Ananthamurthy was also one of the contenders for the prestigious prize. The others..., is not for the lazy at all but takes time, skill and effort".The prize is awarded

Adiga bookies' favourite for Man Booker Prize - 13 Oct 2008
Prize 2008, to be announced Tuesday. The winner will be announced...;  Ladbrokes have Adiga as their favourite to win the coveted literary prize... in prize money, will be chosen from among:  Aravind Adiga ('The White Tiger

Brit artist Mark Leckey bags Turner Prize - 02 Dec 2008
Turner Prize for his film that included cartoon characters like Homer Simpson.  Leckey earned the prize, which is contemporary art's most prestigious... that won the 44-year-old the 25,000 pounds prize, in a ceremony at London's Tate

Indian sand artist wins Danish 'grand prize' - 21 May 2013
the Danish 'grand prize' at the 2nd Copenhagen International Sand sculpture festival 2013.... It took him seven days to complete the art work.After winning the prize, the Odisha... the Moscow Choice prize in Russia and jury prize last year in Copenhagen besides

'Champion of downtrodden' Krishnammal gets Alternate Nobel Prize - 09 Dec 2008
as the Alternate Nobel Prize, at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament, the Riksdag. ... laureates the prize money of two million Swedish kronor.    A veteran

Two Indian writers among six shortlisted for 2008 Booker Prize - 01 Jan 2008
novelists for the 2008 Booker Prize, according to the list of names which was released... is the youngest novelist to be shortlisted for the prize. Australian Steve... novelists, are among the six shortlisted for prize.  The annual Booker Prize

Google Lunar X Prize to back moon space mission - 14 Sep 2007
$30 million prize to companies to land a robot camera on moon, which can sent... jointly with X-Prize foundation which promotes technological innovation. Google... video and data back to earth; second prize of $5 million for the team who

Tagore's Nobel prize centenary celebrated in Sweden - 04 Jun 2013
Stockholm, June 4 (IANS) Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize centenary.... Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.Sharmila Tagore... in Stockholm.It includes his Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece "Gitanjali". "There will be much

A competition where 'inoffensive abuses' won prize - 28 Dec 2008
in splits, as they walked away with the first prize at this unique 'abuse without... of Karnataka Saturday. Their prize - a garland of flowers.   The competition....   'We're happy to win the first prize. On the stage we stayed natural

Tibetans celebrate 19th anniversary of Dalai Lama's peace prize - 10 Dec 2008
celebrated 19th anniversary of the Dalai Lama receiving the Nobel peace prize in 1989...-in-exile said that conferment of the Nobel peace prize on Dalai Lama showed... of the Nobel peace prize on Dalai Lama has shown international support for the peaceful

Wife's nagging wins man £2.8m lotto prize - 09 Dec 2008
a whopping 2.8 million pounds first prize. In fact, the man had almost missed his... won a small prize. "I could not believe it when they said I was actually

AMU professor nominated for 1.5 mn dollars Zayed Future Energy Prize - 01 Jan 2008
) has been nominated for the first Zayed Future Energy Prize (ZFEP).  Hamid... Al Nahyan. The winner and finalists of the prize will be announced...;The winner of Zayed Future Energy Prize will receive 1.5 million dollars and two

German, French scientists share 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine - 06 Oct 2008
that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be shared by Harald zur Hausen... Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize... scientist will get half of the 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.4 million) prize amount

HIV vaccine may be developed in five years, says Nobel Prize laureate - 07 Dec 2008
to be created within five years, according to Nobel Prize laureate in medicine Luc... of this year's Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the virus of AIDS, reports China... of the prize went to a German scientist for finding the cause of cervical cancer

U2's Bono awarded Nobel 'Man of Peace' prize - 13 Dec 2008
Nobel Man of Peace prize for his efforts to tackle African debt, poverty... to the Nobel Peace Prize. "I am an over-awarded, over-rewarded rock star. You... Millennium Goals. To give him the prize, is to say that fight will carry on." (ANI

Indian Aravind Adiga bookies' favourite to win 2008 Man Booker Prize - 01 Jan 2008
London, Sept 10 (ANI): Indian writer Aravind Adiga is bookies' favourite to take this year's 50,000 pounds Man Booker Prize. Former TIME magazine... will be announced on October 14. The Booker Prize 2008 short listed novels are: 

Aravind Adiga's `The White Tiger' in Man Booker Prize 2008 shortlist - 01 Jan 2008
London, Sept. 9 (ANI): HarperCollins India today announced the short listing of Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.  The book has been short-listed from the 13 titles long-listed on July 29

Sir Michael Caine to co-present Nobel Peace Prize Concert - 30 Oct 2008
London, Oct 30 (ANI): English actor Sir Michael Caine has been chosen to co-present this year's Nobel Peace Prize Concert with actress Scarlett Johansson... Prize recipient Martti Ahtisaari, will take place in Oslo, Norway on December 11

India's Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize for White Tiger - 15 Oct 2008
Prize for Fiction 2008 for his work The White Tiger in London Tuesday. ... by Booker Prize judges' chairman Michael Portillo as 'being in the tradition of Macbeth... to win the 50,000-pound ($86,000) Booker Prize, which is awarded each year

Manmohan Singh congratulates Adiga on his winning Booker prize - 15 Oct 2008
Arvind Adiga, on his winning of 50,000 pound Man-Booker-Prize for the year 2008... extremely happy to learn that the coveted Booker Prize is being awarded to you... novelist to win the Booker Prize, which is awarded every year for the best

Spanish novelist wins Asturias prize - 06 Jun 2013
Prize in 1988; and "El jinete polaco" (The Polish Horseman), for which he was awarded the Planeta Prize and the National Narrative Prize in 1991 and 1992... Monterroso in 2000.Past winners of this prize include American novelist Philip

Nobel Peace Prize for former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari - 10 Oct 2008
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 'for his important efforts, on several...;In awarding the prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee noted that Ahtisaari's... awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to mediators in international politics.   

India's Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008 - 15 Oct 2008
London, Oct 15 (ANI): India's young novelist Aravind Adiga has reportedly won the 50,000 pound Man-Booker-Prize for the year 2008 for his first novel 'The White Tiger'. Adiga is the third first-time novelist to win the Booker Prize

Le Clézio dedicates Nobel Prize to Qurratulain Hyder, others - 08 Dec 2008
Prize for Literature to Urdu author Qurratulain Hyder and Hindi-language Mauritian... address this tribute - and to her that I dedicate the Prize which the Swedish..., who should have been given this prize, 'such as Edouard Glissant from

Indians working for social justice get Alternate Nobel Prize - 01 Jan 2008
the Alternate Nobel Prize 2008 for social justice and sustainable human development... become widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize and there are now 128... recipients. The prize money is for ongoing work, never for personal use. 

Indians working for social justice get Alternate Nobel Prize - 06 Oct 2008
the Alternate Nobel Prize 2008 for social justice and sustainable human development... become widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize and there are now 128... recipients. The prize money is for ongoing work, never for personal use. 

'The Prisoner' wins jury prize at Asia Pacific Screen Awards - 12 Nov 2008
Sydney, Nov 12 (IANS) 'The Prisoner', produced and directed by Pryas Gupta, has won the Jury Grand Prize at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), which... of renunciation at the end was wonderful,' said Sen, who presented the prize to Gupta. 

Siddharth Shanghvi, Kaveri Nambisan on Man Asian literary prize short list - 22 Oct 2008
" by Kaveri Nambisan - are on the shortlist for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize... and the Premio Grinzane Cavour. It was also nominated for the IMPAC Prize.   ...; The Man Asian Literary Prize is sponsored by the Man Group that sponsors

Vintage locomotives compete for best engine model prize in TN - 19 Oct 2008
Coonoor (Tamil Nadu), Oct 19 (ANI): In a unique beauty pageant, four vintage steam locomotives vied for the best engine model prize during the Centenary Celebrations of Nilgiris Mountain Railway in Tamil Nadu. It was a unique contest

Book on study of the history of words wins John Llewellyn Rhys Prize - 25 Nov 2008
London, Nov 25 (ANI): A book, which studies the origin of some of the most common words used in the English language, has beaten the Man Booker winner to win the John Llewellyn Rhys prize.  'The Secret Life of Words' by Henry

Arvind Adiga wins Booker Prize with 'shocking tale' of Indian poverty - 15 Oct 2008
Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, for 'The White Tiger...;Adiga took the 50,000-pound ($87,000-dollar) prize for a book described...,' Adiga, the fifth Indian-origin writer to win the prize, told the BBC. 

Ex-Finnish President Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize - 10 Oct 2008
Oslo (Norway), Oct.10 (ANI): Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari has won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for his peace-building and brokering efforts... in announcing the prize. Ahtisaari played a significant part in 1989 to 1990

Deshmukh announces Rs 10 lakh cash prize to Abhinav Bindra - 01 Jan 2008
Mumbai/New Delhi, Aug 11 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh today announced a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh to Abhinav Bindra, who won the first gold medal in the men's 10-meter air rifle event for India in Beijing Olympics

Indian students win $60k grand prize at 2013's Dell Social Innovation Challenge - 18 May 2013
New Delhi, May 18 (ANI): A team of students from India became the winner of the 60,000-dollar-grand-prize at the Dell Social Innovation Challenge (DSIC 2013..., five finalists convened in Austin this week to compete for the cash prize as part

`God particle' discoverers receive prize - 30 May 2013
said Wednesday.Along with a cash prize of 50,000 euros (about $64,000

Abuse without offending, win a prize - 26 Dec 2008
to win prizes. The prize, a garland of flowers.  The competition Dec 27...;'We are not going to have any prize money or big gift hampers for the winners

84-Year-old woman wins largest-ever US lottery prize - 06 Jun 2013
Miami, June 6 (IANS/EFE) The winner of the largest lottery prize ever awarded to a single person in the US is a 84-year-old Florida woman, who showed up to cash in her Powerball ticket and collected some $370.8 million, before taxes.Gloria

Tata Steel bags Deming Application Prize - 07 Oct 2008
Tuesday. The Deming Prize Committee, instituted by the Japanese Union... the process of applying for the Deming Prize. It is a fundamental way of managing... necessary to win this prize,' Muthuram observed.  Established in 1950

Hugh Grant co-star Rachel Rice wins the £100,000 Big Brother prize - 01 Jan 2008
London, Sept 6 (ANI): Welsh actress Rachel Rice won the ninth series of 'Big Brother', and got a cash prize of 100,000 pounds. Rice, who is currently a trainee teacher and who was once featured alongside Hugh Grant in the film Night

Bolt says 'eyes still on prize' at Moscow Championships despite 'early indifferent form' - 12 Jun 2013
are on the prize' despite an indifferent form early this season.According to News.com.au... in competition since 2008According to Bolt, his eyes are always on the prize

Championship Trophy triumph ensues big prize money worth 110 mln pound - 27 May 2013
London, May 27 (ANI): The Championship play-off final will begin as a knockout competition between Crystal Palace and Watford where the prize money will include 110 million pound besides being promoted to the Premier League.While Watford

Israeli author Amos Oz awarded German prize - 13 Dec 2008
by the city of Dusseldorf with the Heinrich Heine Prize for combining 'literary... of literature at Ben-Gurion university, he won the Israel Prize for literature in 1998, the Goethe Prize in 2005 and Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize in 2007. 

Tahmima and Lawrence Hill get Commonwealth Writer's Prize - 19 May 2008
on Sunday (May 18). The Overall Best First New Book prize went to Tahmima Anam from... received prize for the Best First Book. Africa Best Book: Karen King-Aribisala... to a wider audience across the world. The regional award winner gets prize money

Salman Rushdie nominated for Man Booker Prize 2007 - 13 Apr 2007
including seven former Booker Prize winners - John Banville of Ireland; Margaret Atwood... are contesting hard for this prize. Other authors are Philip Roth and Don

Lydia Davis pips Indian writer U.R. Ananthamurthy to win Booker International Prize 2013 - 23 May 2013
London, May 23 (ANI): American short story writer Lydia Davis, whose works can be as brief as a single sentence, has won the fifth Man Booker International Prize topling other authors including an Indian named U.R. Ananthamurthy.The

Filmmaker Michael Haneke wins Spain's Asturias prize - 10 May 2013
the Prince of Asturias Foundation's coat of arms.The arts prize is one of eight

Playboy model Holly Madison bares all for PETA - 01 Jan 2008
London, Aug 12 (ANI): Playboy model Holly Madison has stripped off again - but this time it's for a noble cause. The model one of Playboy boss Hugh Hefner's trio of girlfriends has posed naked for PETA's latest drive to stop

Convocation ceremony for young buds - 07 Jul 2008
Noble Education Foundation (NEF) is organising CONVOCATION CEREMONY for the students which provided one month Free Training Classes on Personality Development... 'Siasat', Hyd. will be Guests of Honor. Janab Sirajuddin Qureshi, President Noble

Cristiano Ronaldo lifts professionals' world prize - 28 Oct 2008
London, Oct 28 (DPA) Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo has been named FIFPro world player of the year.

INTERPOL admits Dawood's presence in Pakistan - 29 Feb 2008
Ronald K Noble Secretary General of INTERPOL revealed that the most wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan during a meeting with Vijay Shankar, Director... the kidney scam kingpin Dr Amit Kumar. Secretary General, Noble underlined

Delhi Government ensures free mid-day meal for poor - 17 Apr 2008
With the noble purpose of removing hunger and thirst from the streets of Delhi, the State Government has launched “Aap Ki Rasoi” scheme... their interest for the programme and pledged to contribute for the noble cause

Govt. recommends tax waiver on Olympic medalists' prize money - 01 Jan 2008
prize money. (ANI) 

Delhi Government launches Special Admission Drive - 25 Apr 2008
With the noble commitment to ensure every child to visit school, the Department of Education at the backdrop of observance of Education for All (EFA) week has... have been requested to voluntarily join the Department for this noble cause

IPL donates Rs 60 million for Jaipur blast victims - 17 May 2008
In a noble gesture, the Indian Premier League (IPL) organiser has announced to donate aid of Rs 6 million to the victims of Jaipur blasts. The serial bombing that rocked the city on Tuesday (May 13) took lives of at least 64 people

India to sign labour agreements with foreign countries - 09 Aug 2008
With a noble aim of securing emigrant Indians against exploitation and abuse in the host countries India has negotiated to sign labour agreements with Malaysia, Oman and Bahrain. The negotiation done for the protection and welfare

Mumbai terror attack fallout: Interpol chief heads team to Pakistan - 23 Dec 2008
Islamabad, Dec 23 (IANS) An Interpol team led by Secretary General Ronald K. Noble reached here Tuesday, a media report said. The team is investigating Indian allegations in connection with Mumbai attacks, Geo TV reported quoting

The Delhi cabinet nods for 'Ladli' scheme - 26 Feb 2008
With noble aim of combating the menace of female foeticide and for the enhancement of social status of the girl child, the Delhi cabinet on Monday put on stamp on the financial arrangement for the implementation of the much talked about

Ministry of WCD planning to make nutrition policy for children - 26 Apr 2008
The Ministry of WCD with a noble cause for drafting a nutrition policy for the children has decided to call nutritional experts, child experts, child health specialists, researchers, and academicians to hold discussions with them

Miley Cyrus encourages fans to 'go green' - 01 Jan 2008
Washington, Aug 21 (ANI): Popstar Miley Cyrus has made a noble effort by encouraging fans to 'go green' in her latest online video. The teen sensation has launched a video on YouTube to urge her teenage fans to realise the importance

A-listers donate footwear to help launch Scottish charity - 11 Oct 2008
London, Oct 11 (ANI): A-listers have joined hands for a noble cause - donating their shoes for an auction to help launch a Scottish charity. The actor Daniel Radcliffe donated a pair of his Harry Potter school shoes, Sir Elton John

Two Americans, one Japanese share 2008 chemistry Nobel - 08 Oct 2008
Stockholm, Oct 8 (IANS) Two US and a Japanese scientist shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for chemistry, the prize committee announced Wednesday. Japan-born Osamu Shimomura and US researchers Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien will equally

Interpol team arrives in Islamabad for Mumbai attacks probe - 23 Dec 2008
Islamabad, Dec 23 (Xinhua) Interpol chief Ronald Noble Tuesday arrived in Islamabad for talks over Indian allegations of involvement of Pakistan-based militant... Noble met Pakistan's Interior Advisor Rehman Malik Tuesday. He will also meet other

Lesbian love story 'Blue is the Warmest Color' wins top prize at Cannes - 27 May 2013
London, May 27 (ANI): Lesbian romance 'Blue Is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele' has won the top honour of the Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d'Or.

Aussie beer beats UK to bag top prize at international competition - 01 Dec 2008
Melbourne, Dec 1 (ANI): Australia has beaten Britain to get an international award for best beer.

French novelist wins 2008 literature Nobel - 09 Oct 2008
Stockholm, Oct 9 (IANS) French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature, the prize committee announced here Thursday. A press statement from the Nobel Committee at the Royal Swedish Academy

DiCaprio helps rebuild tornados-hit American city - 11 Oct 2008
Washington, Oct 11 (ANI): Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio has lent his hand to a noble cause - he's helping rebuild an American city damaged by tornados.  The occupants in Greensburd, Kansas were given nothing but 20 minutes

Lt. Gen. Thamburaj new Indian Army vice chief - 01 Jan 2009
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Lieutenant General Noble Thamburaj Thursday took over as the vice chief of the Indian Army from Lt. Gen. M.L. Naidu, who retired Wednesday. A 1969 batch officer, Thamburaj has seen action during the 1971 India