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Nobel Prize for Physics 2018, for breakthroughs in laser technology that have turned light beams into precision instruments for everything used from eye surgery to micro-machining, has been won on Tuesday October 2, 2018 by three scientists…
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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018 has been jointly won by two American economists: William D. Nordhaus, “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis” and Paul M. Romer, “for…
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Alternative Nobel Literature Prize, a one-off award intended to fill the void left by the cancellation of prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 after a scandal at the Swedish Academy that awards it, has been won by Maryse Condé one of…
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Special report on impacts of global warming at 1.5°C by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), launched after approval at a final plenary of all 195 countries in Incheon in South Korea on Saturday 6 October and released…
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Nobel Chemistry Prize 2018 has been won by Frances H Arnold and George P Smith of the United States and Gregory P Winter of Great Britain, for applying the principles of evolution to develop enzymes used to make everything from biofuels to…
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Reach All Women in WAR (RAW in WAR) Anna Politkovskaya award 2018, one of the prestigious international award given to women human rights defenders from war and conflict zones, has been conferred jointly to Binalakshmi Nepram, an activist…
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Man Booker Prize 2018: was awarded to Anna Burns, for ‘incredibly original’ “Milkman”, her timely, Troubles-set novel about a young woman being sexually harassed by a powerful man, a work set in a divided society which takes inspiration…
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Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), an international legally-binding treaty with its overall objective to encourage actions that will lead to a sustainable future, has three main goals of conservation of biodiversity; sustainable use of…
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President's Estate was declared a Smart Township when an Intelligent Operations Centre (IOC) was inaugurated in Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 19, 2016 by the then President Pranab Mukherjee. He had then directed that the Rashtrapati Bhavan…
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India remained the fastest-growing large economy in the World with GDP growth of 8.2% in real terms in the first quarter (April- June) Q1 of 2018-19, as China’s economy expanded by 6.7% in April-June, down from 6.8% in the first quarter…
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