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Aug 02, 2018

Akshay Venkatesh Wins Fields Medal

Akshay Venkatesh, a renowned Indian-Australian mathematician, is one of four winners of mathematics' prestigious Fields Medal, known as the Nobel Prize for math.

The Fields medals are awarded every four years to the most promising mathematicians under the age of 40.

The other three winners are: Caucher Birkar, a professor of Iranian Kurdish origin; Germany's Peter Scholze and Alessio Figalli, an Italian mathematician.

The prize was inaugurated in 1932 at the request of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields.

Aug 01, 2018

Gopalkrishna Gandhi Selected for Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award

Former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi has been selected for this year's Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award for promoting communal harmony and peace. The award, which carries a citation and cash amount of Rs. 10 lakh, will be presented to Gandhi on August 20, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Jul 31, 2018

Karman Enters Top 200 in WTA Rankings

Karman Kaur Thandi became the sixth Indian woman tennis player to crack the top-200 rankings in singles, jumping 32 places in the WTA chart.

Karman is now ranked exactly 200 in the WTA list.

Jul 29, 2018

Sourabh Verma into His First Final

Former National champion Sourabh Verma stormed into his first final of the season after defeating compatriot Mithun Manjunath in the $75,000 Russia Open Tour Super 100 badminton tournament.

He will face Japan's Koki Watanabe in the final.

Jul 27, 2018

Magsaysay Award Winners

Two Indians -- Bharat Vatwani who works for the mentally-ill street persons and Sonam Wangchuk whose initiative to harness science and culture creatively for economic progress improved the lives of the Ladakhi youth - were declared the winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award.

The other four winners of the award are: Youk Chhang from Cambodia, Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz from East Timor, Howard Dee from the Philippines and Vo Thi Hoang Yen rom Vietnam are other winners of the award.

The Magsaysay Award is regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.

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