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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in prison, Narges Mohammadi blasts Iran's 'tyranny'

The children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi have accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in a ceremony Sunday in the Norwegian capital.

France 24

Jon Fosse says he would have stopped writing 40 years ago if he had listened to critics

Septology author uses Nobel laureate speech to say writing ‘can save lives’ as he recalls his early poor reviews

The Guardian - UK

The UK city voted prettier than Venice – according to mathematicians

Chester is ranked ‘prettiest city in the world’ by study due to high percentage of buildings adhering to golden ratio

The Independent UK

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Life without Iranian activist Mohammadi ‘constant struggle’, says family

Narges Mohammadi, who won peace prize for her activism against oppression of women in Iran, is in prison in Tehran

The Guardian - UK

The UK city voted prettier than Venice by mathematicians

Chester is ranked ‘prettiest city in the world’ by study due to high percentage of buildings adhering to golden ratio

The Independent UK

After COVID break, Centre approves fourth phase roll-out of GIAN scheme

Govt. to restart GIAN, PM Modi's pet project to bring foreign experts to teach in Indian universities. Since 2015-16, 1,612 foreign faculty members have visited from 59 countries, delivering 1,772 courses. IITs, NITs, State universities, IIITs, IISCs, IISERs, etc. have benefited, with 72,000 students directly impacted. MoE now insisting on…

The Hindu

Henry Kissinger was a global – and deeply flawed – foreign policy heavyweight

Declarations of the end of an era are made only in exceptional circumstances. Henry Kissinger’s death is one of them.

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Henry Kissinger: Nobel Prize-winning ‘warmonger’ has died at age 100

An ‘enigmatic realist’ who fled Nazi Germany, Kissinger is remembered for ending the US war in Vietnam, opening China.

Al Jazeera

IIT Madras professor suspended after enquiry committee finds him responsible for death of research scholar

IIT-M suspends professor responsible for research scholar's death. A five-member committee found him solely responsible for Sachin Kumar Jain's suicide. Sen had delayed Sachin's research to 8 years, teased and humiliated him, and isolated him when he developed a close relationship with a female research scholar. On the day of…

The Hindu

Dr Chelsea Polis: ‘The scientific world recognises when you stick your neck out and do the right thing’

The US reproductive health expert on being sued for $1m, and winning a top prize for her fight for free speech in the public interest

The Guardian - UK

Top scientist who called Sunak Dr Death says government made same Covid mistake three times

Boris Johnson should have imposed first national lockdown two weeks earlier, says chief scientific adviser

The Independent UK

'No consultation' with top scientists over Eat Out to Help Out, inquiry hears

The country’s top scientists were never informed about the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, despite Boris Johnson saying they were consulted, the UK…

The National (Scotland)

KL Deemed to be University to organise 13th convocation on November 25

President of Italy-based The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Quarraisha Abdool Karim will be the chief guest at the 13th convocation of the Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (Deemed to be University), scheduled to be held on November 25. At a press conference on November 21 (Tuesday), university Vice-Chancellor G. Partha…

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A reluctant librarian who became India’s father of library science

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Meet the Langlands Program, the world’s biggest maths project | Explained

The Langlands Program seeks to find connections between number theory and harmonic analysis by connecting Galois groups to automorphic functions. The predictions created as a result of work on the Program have helped mathematicians create new functions from existing ones, and even find signs of electromagnetism in number theory. The…

The Independent UK

The Covid-19 Inquiry heard from former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.

The Guardian - US

Top US economists are often wrong – should we trust their predictions?

They write books, review papers and oversee research, and they oftentimes get things wrong – very wrong

Al Jazeera

Colombia’s Santos: I copied aspects of Northern Ireland peace agreement

The former Colombian president, a Nobel laureate for his peacebuilding efforts, talks to Al Jazeera.

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IIT Madras, Sri Ramachandra Institute to offer dual MD-PhD degree in medical engineering

SRIHER and IIT-M sign MoU for M.D.-Ph.D. dual degree. Students pursuing M.D. may apply for Ph.D. programme. Selected students will receive fellowship to complete Ph.D. Aim is to produce trained research scientists to develop healthcare equipment and focus on preventive healthcare. IIT Madras launched Dept. of Medical Sciences and Tech.…

Evening Standard

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: What Iran jail hell taught me about freedom of speech

EXCLUSIVE: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shared a bunk with one of Evin prison’s pillars of resilience. She tells the Standard of what she learned about Iran’s state-sponsored cancel culture and repression

The Hindu

Alarming rise of scientific misconduct recorded in India | Data

?India recently became third-largest producer of scientific articles, but the number of retractions has risen dramatically, mainly for misconduct. Charts show a drop in quality, and how engineering accounts for 48% of all cases of retractions. A survey suggests university ranking parameters, unethical researchers & minimal action when an allegation…

The Hindu

The Nobel in economics as a need to course correct

What is ahead for economists and economics is to contextualise economic theory to make it truly reflective of reality

The Hindu

Infosys Science Foundation announces 6 prize winners for 2023, including two from Bengaluru

The Infosys Prize is given in six categories – Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.

The Conversation

'You only assess what you care about': a new report looks at how we assess research in Australia

Research plays a pivotal role in society. Through research, we gain new understandings, test theories and make discoveries.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s research sector chases rankings over quality and is ‘not fit for purpose’, chief scientist says

Dr Cathy Foley says overhaul needed to improve confidence in how researchers are assessed for hiring, promotion and funding

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