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Iran has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven additional years in prison, alongside a two-year travel ban and internal exile, amid her ongoing hunger strike. The Revolutionary Court in Mashhad delivered the verdict.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presented her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump as a symbolic gesture of gratitude for his support in promoting peace and democracy in Venezuela, though the prize title remains hers

Human rights groups wrote to the Norwegian Nobel Committee accusing Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh’s interim government chief advisor, of remaining silent amid escalating violence and rights abuses in the country, urging moral leadership and accountability to uphold the Nobel Peace Prize’s ethical authority

Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado will not attend the Oslo ceremony; her daughter will accept the award. Machado, recognized for promoting democracy in Venezuela, has been largely absent from public life and barred from running against President Maduro

US President Donald Trump claimed it would be a “big insult” to America if he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, asserting that his administration has helped end or resolve eight global conflicts, including a proposed Gaza peace plan.

US President Donald Trump claimed he ended the India-Pakistan conflict through trade and asserted he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping seven global wars. Speaking at a Washington event, Trump said trade diplomacy prevented nuclear escalation and fostered peace.

The announcement came three days after Trump hosted Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir at the White House

The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo for its work to denuclearise the world also cited memories of atomic bombs of 1945, and thus revives the debate about memorials

The voices of the Hibakusha and their truth that human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist will now ring out more powerfully

Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, stated that the award was given because "the taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure." He added that the Nobel committee aims to honor all survivors who, despite their suffering and painful memories, have chosen to turn their experiences into hope and advocacy for peace.

Starts with medicine award, followed by physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday, literature on Thursday, peace on Friday and economics on October 14

Nobel recognition to Narges’ efforts will go a long way in highlighting the atrocities that women face

New York: The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for USD 103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel. Previously, the most ever paid for a Nobel Prize medal was in 2014, when James Watson, whose co-discovery of the […]

Hyderabad: MLC and Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha on Thursday interacted virtually with Bishow Parajuli, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) representative and country director to India on a wide range of issues including the state of hunger and malnutrition and the innovative steps taken by the Telangana government towards addressing these issues. The WFP […]

Speaking on the occasion, Principal Sudeshna Mairal said that education brings in an essential transformation in human beings.

The organisation is based upon the Sikh principle of “Recognise the whole human race as one”.

The Nobels are traditionally presented on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of prize founder Alfred Nobel, a Swedish scientist and philanthropist.

"The international community's response to global food insecurity has been dangerously inadequate."

The World Food Programme is a global body affiliated to the United Nations. Its objective is to alleviate hunger from the world.

Founded in 1961, the UN body fed 97 mn people last year