BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday congratulated Indian-origin economist Abhijeet Banerjee for winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and stated that every Indian should be proud of this achievement and it should not be seen from a political perspective.

Abhijit Banerjee's achievement should not be seen from political perspective: Mayawati

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday made a gaffe by repeatedly talking about Nobel Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee, as 'Abhishek Babu'. In an apparent slip of tongue, Mamata on Wednesday congratulated Abhijit Banerjee by mentioning him as 'Abhishek Babu'.

Mamata commits gaffe, lauds 'Abhishek Babu' as Nobel Prize winner

A Norwegian politician has nominated the "people of Hong Kong" for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, in a move which risks drawing China's ire. "I have nominated the people of Hong Kong, who risk their lives and security every day to stand up for freedom of speech and basic democracy, to the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020," Guri Melby, a member of Norway's parliament for the liberal party, said in a Twitter post on Tuesday.

'People of Hong Kong' nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2020

Politicians from various parties and affiliations in the country congratulated Abhijit Banerjee, the Indian-origin economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Prime Minister Modi congratulates Abhijit Banerjee on winning Nobel Prize in Economics

Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences for their work on the experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.

Indian-origin professor Abhijit Banerjee among three winners of Nobel Prize in Economics

The trio of International economists awarded Nobel Prize

2019 Economics Nobel Jointly Awarded

Three researchers on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the development of lithium-ion batteries, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. John Goodenough of the US - at 97 the oldest person to be awarded a Nobel prize - Britain's Stanley Whittingham and Japan's Akira Yoshino will share the $914,000 prize sum equally.

US-UK-Japan trio win chemistry Nobel for lithium-ion battery

Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 winners

The Swedish body that awards the annual Nobel prize for literature will name two winners on Thursday (October 10), including one for 2018 when the ceremony was scuttled by a sexual assault scandal that prompted reforms by the long secretive organisation

Moving on from scandal, Swedish Academy to award two Nobel literature prizes

Scientists James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for ground-breaking work in astronomy, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

Peebles, Mayor and Queloz win 2019 Nobel Prize for physics

Here are 14 women who won Nobel Literature Prize out of 114 laureates

Two Americans and a Briton won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, opening up new approaches to treating heart failure, anaemia and cancer.

Nobel Medicine Prize won by doctors for work on cells' response to oxygen

Five things to know about the Nobel prizes

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg's shaming of world leaders and air travellers over climate change has won her millions of admirers and attracted many new followers to her cause.

A Nobel for Sweden's Greta Thunberg? A tough decision for prize committee

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday won the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the "alternative Nobel Prize", the jury for the Swedish Human Rights Prize said.

Climate striker Greta Thunberg wins Right Livelihood Award

Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist who theorised the existence of the quark and won a Nobel Prize for his method of classifying particles, has died at age 89, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) said.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann dies at 89

The Swedish academy will be allowed to award the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prize for literature this year, the Nobel Foundation said on Tuesday, after a sex scandal forced a postponement of last year's prize.

Nobel Foundation says two literature prizes to be awarded this year

The scandal-plagued Swedish body that awards the Nobel Prize for literature said on Friday that one of its members would leave after an investigation determined she had leaked the names of winners.

Poet quits Swedish Academy after being found to leak Nobel winner names

The Nobel Committee today announced the names of this year's Peace Prize giving it to Democratic Republic of Congo's (Dr Congo) Denis Mukwege and Iraq's Nadia Murad for their contribution in fighting sex crimes.

Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad win Nobel Peace Prize for fighting against 'sexual violence as a weapon of war'

Here is the full list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates from 1901, when the prize was first awarded. This year it went jointly to Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege an

Full list of Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901

Winner of the Nobel prize for Physics announced

Two American scientists - Frances Arnold and George Smith, including a British researcher Gregory Winter have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year. Also Read: James P Allison, Tasaku Honjo win Nobel Prize in medicine The Nobel jury said the winners had harnessed principles of evolution to develop proteins used to make everything from biofuels to pharmaceuticals.

Frances Arnold, George Smith & Gregory Winter win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Indonesia steps up hunt for survivors as quake toll passes 1,200 Indonesian President Joko Widodo called for reinforcements in a desperate search for survivors of a devastating earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi island, as the official death toll rose above 1,200 on Tuesday and looting fuelled fears of lawlessness.

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James P Allison, 70, and Tasaku Honjo, 76, of Japan have jointly won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine this year. Also Read: Swedish court finds Arnault at centre of Nobel prize scandal guilty of rape The two winners have been given the top prize for their work in discovering cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.

James P Allison,  Tasaku Honjo win Nobel Prize in medicine

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