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Nobel Memorial Wall unveiled at metro station in New Delhi

New Delhi, Oct 26 (ANI): The Embassy of Sweden and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Sunday (October 26) jointly unveiled The Nobel Memorial Wall, displaying the portraits of Indian Nobel laureates in the national capital. At the moment, photographs and a brief history of physicist CV Raman, bio-chemist Har Gobind Khorana, Albanian Roman Catholic nun Mother Teresa, Bengali poet and Nobel Literature Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore and Nobel economics laureate Amartya Sen adorn the wall. This year, portrait of India's children rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi, is a new addition to the wall. Oct 26, 2014
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Asian Games medalists felicitated

New Delhi/ Manipur, Oct 23 (ANI): The medal winners of the recently-concluded 17th Asian Games met the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence. The Prime Minister congratulated the sportspersons and expressed hope that they will continue bringing laurels for the country. The medal winners were also felicitated by the Sports Ministry at an event in the Capital. Union sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Union minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and other MPs were present at the event. While the gold medal winners were awarded Rs.20 lakh each, the silver and bronze medalists got Rs 10 and 6 lakh each respectively. The recently concluded Asian Games held in Incheon in South Korea saw India finish at the eighth position in the medal's tally. At a separate felicitation programme boxer MC Mary Kom was chosen as the Most Valuable Player of India's Incheon Asian Games campaign. The pugilist was awarded a cash prize of Rs.10 lakh by the organizers. The Manipur government also felicitated the Asian games medal winners and participants from the state at an event at the Khuman Lampak sports complex. Oct 23, 2014
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Writer Vargas Llosa slams nationalism

Nobel-prize winning author Mario Vargas Llosa takes a swipe a nationalism, calling it the 'most serious threat to the building of Europe'. Duration: 01:06 Oct 20, 2014
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Nobel peace prize to India and Pakitsna will help resolve border conflict: Dalai Lama

Dharamsala, Oct 19 (ANI): Tibetan spiritual leader, his holiness the Dalai Lama said that Nobel peace prize to India and Pakistan can help resolve border conflict between the two neighbours. Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban two years ago for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian children's right advocate Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on October 10. Expressing his feeling to both awardees, Dalai Lama said the decision to award the Peace Prize to an Indian man and a Pakistani woman together emphasizes that only as human brothers and sisters will we create a more peaceful, happier world. Dalai Lama commended both Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi for working to support children and said that children's future will only be secured if it is ensured that they receive full and equal education. Oct 19, 2014
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Chief Secretaries, DGPs will be answerable for missing children: SC

New Delhi, Oct 16 (ANI): Expressing deep concern over the increasing number of missing children, the Supreme Court on Thursday said that Chief Secretaries, DGPs of states will be answerable for missing children. The Apex Court said that it will periodically summon chief secretaries and DGPs of those states from where a large number of children go missing regularly. As a first step, it summoned the chief secretaries and DGPs of Bihar and Chattisgarh and asked them to be present in court on October 30. The SC passed this order on a petition filed by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyathi's NGO Bachapan Bachao Andolan. Oct 16, 2014
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Residents of Islamabad vow to carry forward Malala's mission

Islamabad, Oct 15 (ANI): Dozens of rights activists and residents of Pakistani capital took to the streets of Islamabad recently with lighted torches and candles to pay tributes to their young Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai. Malala, the Pakistani teenager, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on October 10, along with Indian campaigner against child trafficking and labour Kailash Satyarthi. Yousafzai, aged 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner and 60-year-old Satyarthi the first Indian-born winner of the accolade. Chanting "Provide education for children, or leave your chairs", the crowd demanded that the government takes on girls' education on a war footing. Yousafzai was attacked in 2012 in a school bus in the Swat Valley of northwest Pakistan by masked gunmen as a punishment for a blog that she wrote for the BBC's Urdu service as an 11-year-old to campaign against the Taliban's efforts to deny women education. Oct 15, 2014
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