Scotish tennis player Andy Murray received the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in London. The awar was presented by Irish boxing legend…
Sahitya Academy Awards for 2015 announced
Sahitya Academy has announced the names of 23 poets and authors who will be honored with 2015 Sahitya Akademi Award. This award has recognised premier…
Legendary Indian actor Dilip Kumar conferred with Padma Vibhushan
Indian cinema’s one of the greatest actors – Dilip Kumar was conferred with the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honour, on 13 December 2015. The…
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe awarded with 2015 Confucius Peace Prize
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was awarded with the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize by China for supposedly injecting fresh energy into the global quest for harmony….
Nobel in economics 2015: Angus Deaton of Princeton won for work on poverty
British-born economist Angus Deaton won the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2015. He got this honour for his work on consumption, poverty and welfare that…
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet won Nobel Peace Prize 2015
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee chose the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet – a group of four organizations from Tunisia, for the Nobel Peace Prize 2015….
Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich won Literature Nobel
The Nobel Prize 2015 in Literature went to 67-year-old Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich. She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award. The…
Forbes Asia’s Richest Families list released
Forbes released the inaugural list of Forbes’ 50 richest families in Asia. The list was topped by Lee (Byung-Chull) family of South Korea with 26.6…
Nobel prize for chemistry: Lindahl, Modrich and Sancar won for DNA research
The Nobel Prize 2015 in Chemistry jointly went to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 was awarded…
Arthur B McDonald and Takaaki Kajita won 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
Japan’s Takaaki Kajita and American Arthur B. McDonald jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that…