Aziz Sancar, Turkey’s first Nobel in science
In its second Nobel Prize win, Turkey secured its first Nobel in science, most specifically, chemistry, with Aziz Sancar. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Sancar, 69 years, holds both American and Turkish citizenship, has mapped nucleotide excision repair, the […]
Women in Truman Capote’s world
Truman Capote, the American writer, who’s mostly known for his nonfiction book “In Cold Blood”, wrote a number of novels and short stories, and though their protagonists weren’t always female, there always seemed to be an interesting female character in everything he wrote, and the reason why they were so interesting is because they […]
Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap at BIFF: Filmmakers need to find their own voice
Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is currently in Busan, as part of jury for the New Currents at Busan International Film Festival. The Asia N journalist Rahul Aijaz caught up with Mr. Kashyap at the festival. Talking about indie filmmakers in India, Mr. Kashyap said he is happy because new Indian independent films are getting screened across […]
Nobel prize 2015 in medicine fights parasites
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites; and the other half to Youyou Tu for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria. The Nobel prize […]
Japanese and Canadian scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
In a press release released by the official Nobel Prize academy they announced the winners for 2015 in Physics to be Takaaki Kajita from University of Tokyo in Japan and Arthur B. McDonald from Queen’s university in Canada for their “discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.” As follows the press release they issued, “The […]
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins PEN Pinter prize
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi who was jailed, fined and publicly lashed after being convicted of charges including “violating Islamic values and propagating liberal thought” has been named co-winner of the 2015 PEN Pinter prize. Badawi was convicted of insulting Islam in 2012, and fined £175,000, and is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Saudi Arabia and is due […]
Indian filmmaker Kabir Khan at BIFF: Mainstream cinema is the most powerful media in India
Indian filmmaker Kabir Khan is currently in Busan, as his megahit film ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ screens at Busan International Film Festival. ‘The Asia N’ journalist Rahul Aijaz caught up with him about his film. Khan said his film was a big success because Salman Khan has not done anything like this before. The film revolved around […]
Hundreds killed in hajj stampede in Mecca
A stampede during one of the last rituals of the Hajj season — the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca — has killed more than 700 people and injured close to 900 others in Saudi Arabia. The stampede occurred Thursday morning during the ritual known as “stoning the devil” in a tent city in the neighborhood […]
Palestinian president Abbas warns of risk of new intifada
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned Tuesday of the “risk of an intifada” if clashes over the Al-Aqsa mosque compound continue, after a meeting with French leader Francois Hollande in Paris, reports AFP. “What is happening is very dangerous,” Abbas said, calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “stop” the chaos at the flashpoint holy […]
Yemen’s president return to Aden
Yemen’s president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has returned to the southern city of Aden after six months in exile, his office says. A government source told the Reuters news agency Hadi would spend the festival of Eid al-Adha in Aden before flying to New York to address the UN. He fled Aden in late March as Houthi […]
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