Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize puts spotlight on female labour force

Another factor which also exhibits a U-shape is women’s education. For the illiterate or those with low education, women participate more.

16 October 2023, 20:26 IST

Nobel Prize puts spotlight on female labour force

16 October 2023, 20:26 IST

Goldin’s insights are valuable to India, too

Her research shows what needs to be done to boost women in labour force

11 October 2023, 22:27 IST

Goldin’s insights are valuable to India, too

11 October 2023, 22:27 IST

Prize spotlights Iran’s oppression of women

The Nobel Prize, or any prize for that matter, becomes more relevant and takes on more meaning when it is awarded to persons who resist and oppose the policies and actions of such repressive regimes

09 October 2023, 21:21 IST

Prize spotlights Iran’s oppression of women

09 October 2023, 21:21 IST

DH Evening Brief: Polling, counting dates for five states announced; Israel vows to put Gaza under siege

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09 October 2023, 14:18 IST

DH Evening Brief: Polling, counting dates for five states announced; Israel vows to put Gaza under siege

09 October 2023, 14:18 IST

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to Claudia Goldin

The Nobel committee announced the award in Stockholm, praising Goldin for her research on female employment, which showed that employment among married women decreased in the 1800s, as the economy moved away from agriculture and toward industry.

09 October 2023, 10:05 IST

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to Claudia Goldin

09 October 2023, 10:05 IST

Lit prize panel should look further afield

A writer in a minor European language is visible to it; so should writers world over be.

08 October 2023, 21:19 IST

Lit prize panel should look further afield

08 October 2023, 21:19 IST

Why does the Nobel committee overlook Saudi women activists?

Political calculations can explain why Western nations stay quiet about gender repression. Their dependence on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries for oil, investments and, arguably, security fuels this hypocrisy.

07 October 2023, 05:08 IST

Why does the Nobel committee overlook Saudi women activists?

07 October 2023, 05:08 IST

Jon Fosse's books seek and find the divine

The Nobel announcement comes only a few weeks before his latest novel, 'A Shining', will be published in English and it affords an excellent occasion to make a stronger case for why reading Fosse is a singular and transporting experience.

06 October 2023, 03:11 IST

Jon Fosse's books seek and find the divine

06 October 2023, 03:11 IST

Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Norwegian author Jon Fosse

Critics have long compared Fosse’s sparse plays to the work of two previous Nobel laureates: Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett. And he had long been tipped to win.

05 October 2023, 11:02 IST

Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Norwegian author Jon Fosse

05 October 2023, 11:02 IST

A well-deserved Nobel for medicine

Karikó and Weissman persevered for long against scepticism of their work.

05 October 2023, 00:52 IST

A well-deserved Nobel for medicine

05 October 2023, 00:52 IST