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Nobel peace prize 2025 win for Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado is a big victory for Donald Trump. Here's whyU.S President Donald Trump on Friday missed out on Nobel peace prize 2025 as predicted by experts but the win for Venezuelan opposition lea...11 Oct, 2025, 04.25 AM IST- Children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi to accept Nobel Peace Prize on her behalfThe children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi are set to accept this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in a ceremony Su...11 Dec, 2023, 05.08 PM IST
- Taslima Nasrin: People bothered about atrocities in Palestine should focus on wrongs nearer homeBangladeshi poet Taslima Nasrin, known for her rebellious writings, believes that those who are concerned about the plight of Palestinians ...15 Oct, 2023, 04.55 PM IST
- EU awards top human rights prize to the people of UkraineIt's the second straight year EU lawmakers used the Sakharov Prize to send a message to the Kremlin. Imprisoned Russian opposition leader A...19 Oct, 2022, 09.14 PM IST
- Ales Bialiatski: Veteran rights defender in authoritarian BelarusHe spent his 60th birthday in prison on September 25, as he did his 50th, but won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in the wake of historic d...07 Oct, 2022, 10.38 PM IST
- Why Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy still threatens Vladimir Putin?During his presidency, Vladimir Putin has systematically destroyed these historic achievements. On their ruins, his regime is mobilising mi...03 Sep, 2022, 11.15 AM IST
- Mikhail Gorbachev: His seven years that changed the worldIn nearly seven years, between March 1985 and December 1991, he changed the course of history by ending the Cold War and triggering the dem...31 Aug, 2022, 11.51 AM IST
- Ukraine top of agenda as China, EU prepare to meet at summitOther topics include China's travel ban on members of the European Parliament, Beijing's economic boycott of EU member Lithuania over its T...01 Apr, 2022, 11.06 AM IST
- Will Greta Thunberg win the Nobel Peace Prize this year?Potential recipients also include Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya of Belarus & Russia's Alexei Navalny.01 Oct, 2021, 01.59 PM IST
- Writer Joyce Carol Oates wins France's $218,000 Cino del Duca World PrizeThe prize is often seen as a stepping stone to the Nobel.26 May, 2020, 12.00 PM IST
- India is streets ahead of US and Russia when it comes to renaming roadsLong before New Delhi’s Aurangzeb Road leapfrogged three centuries to become Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Road, the street on which the US consulat...15 Feb, 2018, 11.11 PM IST
- Can street battles affect any outcome?Iran may rename the street in Tehran on which the Embassy of Saudi Arabia stands after the Shia cleric the Saudis executed, Sheikh Nimr al-...19 Feb, 2016, 06.44 AM IST
- Malala Yousafzai missed out on peace prize in 2013 for being too young, says Nobel InstituteThe Nobel committee was wary whether Malala would be able to handle the pressure that comes from global fame and expectation after winning ...11 Oct, 2014, 10.25 AM IST
- I did not criticise Islam in 'Lajja': Taslima NasrinTaslima Nasrin says she did not criticise Islam in her controversial novel "Lajja" and the fatwa against her is because of her criticism of...22 Sep, 2014, 03.36 PM IST
- Europe calls for more help from Asia on financial crisisEurope on Thursday called for greater help from Asia in tackling the unprecedented challenges of the global economic crisis, on the eve of ...23 Oct, 2008, 08.02 PM IST
- Dalai Lama nominated for 2008 Sakharov prizeTibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been nominated for the European Union Parliament's 2008 Sakharov prize, sources in the Tibetan ...05 Sep, 2008, 07.31 PM IST
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