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Nobel Prize 2017: All The Winners

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

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Rainer WeissBarry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne
"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

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Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017

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Jeffrey C. HallMichael Rosbash and Michael W. Young
"for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017

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Kazuo Ishiguro
"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2017

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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
"for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017

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Richard H. Thaler
"for his contributions to behavioural economics"

Global Hunger Index 2017: India ranks 100th

India, which has more than a fifth (21 percent) of its children wasted (weigh too little for their height), slipped three places to 100th in the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) - three places down from last year’s rank of 97th.

Government launches Sampoorna Bima Gram Yojana

Sampoorna Bima Gram Yojana:

14TH President Of India- Ram Nath Kovind

Ram Nath Kovind, lawyer, former MP and governor, was elected India's next President on Thursday. The government-backed candidate, a Dalit leader, won nearly 66 per cent of the votes cast by an electoral college of MPs and state lawmakers on Monday. He will be sworn in on July 25.