Dhaka, May 13(ANI): Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus has appealed to foreign firms in Bangladesh to fix a common minimum wage for garment industry workers.

New York, May 11 (ANI): A 14-year-old boy from Indiana, who was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism at the age of 2, has an IQ of 170, which is higher than Einstein's, and he is now on the road to winning a Nobel Prize.

Sydney, May 7 (ANI): Belgium is mourning the death of its Nobel laureate, the biochemist Christian de Duve who died in an act of euthanasia at the age of 95 according to a Belgian daily.

Washington, April 23 (ANI): Scientists have developed a method to measure the rate of the universe's expansion using certain types of active black holes that lie at the center of many galaxies.

London, Apr 18 (ANI): Nobel laureate Saul Bellow's son Greg has revealed his fractured childhood in his new memoir 'Saul Bellow's Heart' that could land anyone in therapy.

Washington, Apr 13 (ANI): Investigators from the United States will analyse bone remains of Chilean Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda to resolve a four-decade mystery about his death.

Washington, Apr. 11 (ANI): A letter that pioneering scientist Francis Crick wrote to his son, detailing his Nobel Prize-winning DNA discovery, has been sold to anonymous buyer at a New York City auction for a record-breaking 5.3 million dollars on Wednesday.

New York, Apr. 11 (ANI): British scientist Robert Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize award for his pioneering work in developing in vitro fertilisation (IVF), died on Wednesday. He was 87.

New Delhi, Mar. 22 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said India with a strong scientific and technical manpower has an opportunity to become a major knowledge power in the years to come, and added that there is a need to invest in research and development to make this dream a reality.

London, Mar. 20 (ANI): Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' rights to education, has attended her first day at school in the UK.

London, Mar. 13 (ANI): The remains of Chilean Nobel prize winning poet Pablo Neruda will be exhumed on April 8 to determine if he died of cancer or was poisoned.

Sydney, Mar. 9 (ANI): Hong Kong journalists have condemned an attack on two cameramen outside the home of the wife of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo in Beijing.

London, Mar. 5 (ANI): Nobel Prize winning scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi - discoverer of HIV - has said that a cure for AIDS now "might be possible."

London, Mar. 5 (ANI): The body of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda will be exhumed after his former driver claimed that Augusto Pinochet's regime was behind his death.

Washington, Mar 5 (ANI): This year's Nobel Peace Prize nominees include Pakistani teenage women education activist Malala Yousafzai, and US soldier Bradley Manning, who had been accused of leaking classified material to WikiLeaks.

Washington, Feb 26 (ANI): 60 years after Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for medicine, the researcher's family is now offering his gold medal and diploma for sale at an auction.

Washington, February 20 (ANI): Scientists have now demonstrated the advantages of wavelength-modulated Raman spectroscopy, opening the door to wider biomedical and clinical applications such as real-time assessment of tissues during surgery.

London, Jan. 29 (ANI): A Taiwanese businessmen, who heads a business empire that invests heavily in China, has invested more than three billion Taiwanese dollars, 103 million dollars, to establish what are being dubbed the 'Asian Nobel prizes'.

London, Jan. 28 (ANI): Burmese pro-democracy crusader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she is still 'fond' of her country's army, even though it kept her under house arrest for 15 years.

Washington, January 28 (ANI): Researchers have used skin cells from patients with an inherited heart condition known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) to recreate the adult-onset disease in a laboratory dish-producing the first maturation-based disease model for testing new therapies.

London, Jan. 25 (ANI): Nobel Prize winning US economist Joseph Stiglitz has said the richest one percent of Americans now hold 25 percent of the country's wealth in a major sign of inequality and more needs to be done to boost equality.

Washington, Jan 15 (ANI): Nations that consume a lot of milk and milk products also tend to have a lot of Nobel laureates among their populations, researchers have claimed

Patna, Jan 4 (ANI): Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Friday said that the world is facing a moral crisis, and emphasised on self-discipline on the basis of moral ethics to combat it.

Kolkata, Jan 3 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday called upon the scientific community to work for the promotion of a scientific culture for shaping India's future in which prosperity and peace, excellence and equity, oriental values and occidental methods of science converge and co-exist.

Brussels, Dec. 20 (ANI): The European Union has donated its 2012 Nobel peace prize cash, plus a one million-euro top-up, to thousands of children impacted by war in Syria, Colombia, Congo and Pakistan.