Category: NATIONAL

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group KOLKATA: The Nobel Prize  has unanimously been regarded as one of the most prestigious awards worldwide for more than a century. It would be interesting to know how the internationally recognised award came to be initiated.  The Nobel Prize has been named after Alfred Bernhard Nobel who was born on 21 October,1833 in Stockholm, Germany. He was the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other powerful explosives. In order to understand how and why the award came to be given, we have to flip through the…

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group KOLKATA: Poverty is said to be the root cause of all social evils.  Time has not been able to refute this harsh factual observation made by social thinkers of all times.  A pathbreaking innovative experiment based economic research on the mode to combat and diminish global poverty was conducted by three Economists namely Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo,his wife and colleague  as well as his fellow researcher, Michael kremer for more than two decades. This year, in recognition of their research, the Nobel Prize Committee has  …

Prize founder Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, decided the physics, chemistry, medicine and literature prizes should be awarded in Stockholm, and the peace prize in Oslo. Three scientists on Wednesday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries, which have reshaped energy storage and transformed cars, mobile phones and many other devices in an increasingly portable and electronic world. The Royal Swedish Academy has decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to John B. Goodenough, M.…

By: Prof. (Dr.) Mohd Aleem Siddiqui, MD (Psychiatry), DPM  & Sr. Associate Editor-ICN Group            LUCKNOW: This year, the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) has decided to make “suicide prevention” the main theme of World Mental Health Day. World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues and mobilizing efforts in support of better mental health. According to the WHO, more than 800,000 people die by suicide a year, making it the principal…

STOCKHOLM:The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning.The prize is shared by three physician/scientists for their “discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”Two Americans and a British scientist won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels, work that has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases, the Nobel Committee said.The Nobel Committee said scientists are focused on developing drugs that can treat diseases by either activating or blocking the body’s oxygen-sensing machinery.Thomas…