Telangana won the first prize under the large states category under the Swachh Survekshan Grameen (SSG) 2022 which looks into the sanitation status of rural areas. Haryana was in the second position while Tamil Nadu was third. The Swachh Survekshan Gramin-2022 award ranks states and districts on the basis of …
French-American Duo Hailed For Finding Way To Help Build Supercomputers. Stockholm: A French-American duo shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for inventing methods to observe the properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the …
Stockholm: A British researcher and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering that ordinary cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells, which then can turn into any kind of tissue — a discovery that may led to new treatments. …
A French and an American scientist won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for finding ways to measure elusive quantum particles without destroying them, something researchers previously thought impossible. Their work could lead to the building of a new kind of super fast computer based on quantum physics, …
STOCKHOLM: Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for work in cell programming, a frontier that has raised dreams of growing replacement tissue for people crippled by disease. The two scientists were lauded for determining that adult cells can be …
Developed Statistical Tools To Unravel Effect Of Monetary Policy On Economy Catherine Rampell: The Nobel prize in economic science was awarded on Monday to Thomas J Sargent at New York University and Christopher A Sims at Princeton University for their research looking at the cause-and-effect relationship between economic policy and …
The Nobel in economic science was awarded on Monday to Thomas J. Sargent of New York University and Christopher A. Sims of Princeton University for their research on the cause and effect of government policies on the broader economy, a major concern of countries still struggling to address the aftermath …
An Israeli scientist who suffered years of ridicule and even lost a research post for claiming to have found an entirely new class of solid material was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals. Three decades after Dan Shechtman looked with an electron microscope …
Three U.S.-born researchers shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, a startling result that overturned prevailing theories and sparked new questions for cosmology. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half the prize of 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) …
Three scientists who unlocked secrets of the body’s immune system, opening doors to new vaccines and cancer treatments, won the 2011 Nobel prize for medicine today. American Bruce Beutler and French biologist Jules Hoffmann, who studied the first stages of immune responses to attack, share the $1.5 million award with …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Robert Edwards, the British scientist whose pioneering research with his late colleague Patrick Steptoe led to the birth of the world's first
The Chemistry prize goes to three scientists, one of them of Indian origin, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, for ribosome research. THE deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules wrapped up in every cell of every organism, from a bacterium to a plant to a human being, in the form of chromosomes contain the blueprint of
The Nobel economics prize was awarded on Monday to Paul Krugman, one of the great popularisers of economic ideas and a trenchant critic of the Bush administration. However, the prize was awarded for work done almost three decades ago in developing what is known as
STOCKHOLM: Paul Krugman, the Princeton University scholar and New York Times columnist, won the Nobel prize in economics on Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity. Krugman has been a harsh critic of the Bush administration and the …
Two Americans and a Japanese have won the Nobel chemistry prize for discovering the glowing proteins that have become an essential tool in biomedical research. Osamu Shimomura, a Japanese citizen who has worked in the US for almost 50 years, originally extracted
