Yoichiro Nambu

The National Science Foundation (NSF) congratulates the 2008 Nobel laureates, particularly those who have received NSF funding over the years: Paul Krugman, who earned the prize for economics; Yoichiro Nambu, who earned the prize for physics; and Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien who jointly earned the prize for Chemistry. “We are very proud of this year’s laureates and their impressive achievements in a variety of disciplines,” said Arden L. Bement, Jr., NSF director. “This year’s Nobel Prize recipients exemplify dedicated researchers who commit to hard work long before their contributions are recognized. These American Nobel laureates embody NSF’s gold-chip investments in ... Read Full Story

Nobel Foundation announced the Noble Prize Winners were announced for the year 2008 . Here are the below Winners according to the category: Peace - "Martti Ahtisaari" who is the Former President of Finland, worked to end conflicts in troubled spots around the world for more than three decades made him to won the Noble Prize Economics - "Paul Krugman" , A American economist for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity which made him to won the Noble Prize for Economics. Literature - "Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio" , French writer , whose work reflects a seemingly insatiable restlessness and sense ... Read Full Story

The World Bank on Monday said it has decided to debar Indian software vendors Wipro and Megasoft from directly doing business with the bank group under its corporate procurement programme, taking the number of large vendors debarred by it to three. The Bank had announced debarment of Satyam Computer on December 25. "This change was made in the interest of fairness and transparency," the Bank said in a statement. This change aligns the disclosure practice for companies that provide goods and services directly to the Bank with the current policy governing procurement on Bank financed projects in developing countries. "In parallel with the Bank's ... Read Full Story

Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor said that their is no such evidence of local support was involved in the recent terror attacks in Mumbai. The Police Chief said in Press Meeting "There were 10 terrorists divided in 5 groups, each group contianing 2 terrorists who had came from Karachi in boats and later hired taxis to reach their destinations and all of them came from pakistan and trained over a one year by ex-Army personnel". And also said that they carried 5 bombs out which 2 exploded in taxis in Vile Parle and Dockayrd Road, another One bomb was placed inside Oberoi hotel, one ... Read Full Story

India's fourth largest Software Company Satyam Computer Services has demanded apology and to withdraw the statements and harm done to the company by world Bank. But World Bank has refused to apologise about the allegations which made earlier against the company. A World Bank spokesman in Washington said that the Bank stands by the statement issued on its India website on 23rd December. The Bank said that, "Satyam was declared ineligible for contracts for providing improper benefits to Bank staff and for failing to maintain documentation to support fees charged for its subcontractors." and also the shares in Satyam Software Services also fell down ... Read Full Story