The Problem Causing Puerto Rico Blackouts On this big day for Mother Teresa, I would like to recall one moment of her life: her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. This episode is ...

Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her extensive charitable work. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic organisation dedicated to helping the poor ...

The contributions of these Nobel Prize winners have not only brought glory to the country but also advanced knowledge and ...

and Mother Teresa (1979), but some recipients have proven more controversial than others. When the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Barack Obama, many commentators questioned the choice ...

Lots of famous people have won a Nobel Prize, including Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King. So, the Ig Nobels aren't real Nobel Prizes, but they are still important prizes for ...

The date of 5 September was chosen in order to commemorate the anniversary of the passing away of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 "for work undertaken in the ...

And Mother Teresa, who created the Missionaries of Charity and dedicated her life to caring for the poor and ill, had recently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. “Mary Ellen recognized this ...

which had already given Mother Teresa its highest honour, Bharat Ratan, in 1980 -- one year after she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Calcutta has been "orphaned" "Though she was a world citizen ...

Economist Abhijit Banerjee became the sixth Nobel Laureate from Kolkata. Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, Mother Teresa, CV Raman and Ronald Ross are the others from Kolkata or have a connection ...