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₹100 crore to Maran out of the total due amount of ₹397 crore. According to thehigh court's 24 August order, the airline was instructed to pay ₹100 crore to Maran by 10 September. In the arbitration award execution case, Maran had claimed SpiceJet had forfeited its right to be heard in court by willfully disobeying orders.

Singapore is investigating the role that some single family offices played in one of the city’s largest money laundering cases and weighing further rules on the sector.

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L’Huillier discovered that many different overtones of light arose when she transmitted infrared laser light through a noble gas. Only four women have won the Nobel Physics Prize since the award was first handed out in 1901: Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018) and Andrea Ghez (2020). L'Huillier was one of the recipients of last year's prestigious Wolf Prize, whose laureates occasionally go on to win the Nobel. Each overtone is a light wave with a given number of cycles for each cycle in the laser light.

₹25 lakh to nine ISRO scientists from Tamil Nadu, including K Sivan and Mylswamy Annadurai, in recognition of their services to the nation. Stalin lauded the scientists for bringing laurels to Tamil Nadu and presented them with shawls and mementos. Recalling the words of former Chief Minister C N Annadurai, he said the late leader had wondered aloud why Tamil Nadu had not been the home of icons in the league of physicist Albert Einstein and inventor Thomas Alva Edison.

This is part of a series of interviews with the winners of The Economic Times Startup Awards 2023. Unable to keep up with the fundraising capabilities of rivals Grofers (now Blinkit) and BigBasket, Mukesh Singh and the other two cofounders of ZopNow took the tough decision to shut their seven-year-old consumer-facing grocery-delivery platform in 2018. Singh and his cofounders, Raj Pandey and Vikash Kumar, bought out their investors with their personal capital and transitioned ZopNow to a business-to-business (B2B) enterprise, offering its omnichannel retail expertise to retailers globally under a new name, ZopSmart.

Indri Diwali Collector's Edition 2023, at the Whiskies of the World Awards, a yearly international tasting competition, is timely. India last year replaced France as the largest importing nation of Scotch whisky. These imports represent a fraction of Indian whisky consumption and consumers are pushing premiumisation at a frantic pace.

The pace of awarding of highway projects is expected to accelerate in the coming months as the issues behind the current slowdown have been “substantially addressed” and the government is now working with a target to award 12,500-km stretches for this financial year, a senior official said.

White Lotus can rejoice as pre-production for Season 3 is about to recommence. The show, created by Mike White, faced setbacks due to the 146-day Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, one of the longest in Hollywood's history.

Pro-Beijing leader Mohamed Muizzu has won the Maldives presidential election, beating incumbent president Ibrahim Solih in the second-round of the contest. This shift may raise alarms in New Delhi, apprehensive of China's growing influence in the traditionally Indian-aligned Maldives. Mint delves into the implications.

Khaled Khalifa has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 59 at his home in Damascus, a close friend told AFP. Khalifa, who hailed from Maryamin in northwestern Aleppo province, was celebrated for his novels, television screenplays and newspaper columns, and honoured with several of the Arab world's top literary awards. He «died in his home alone in Damascus» on Saturday, said journalist Yaroub Aleesa, who had spent time with the author during his final days. «We called him repeatedly and he didn't respond.

Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels.Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights!Click here! "The laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times," it added. The pair will receive their prize, consisting of a diploma, a gold medal and a $1 million cheque, from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of scientist Alfred Nobel who created the prizes in his last will and testament.

Nobel Peace Prize, a subject that has generated considerable discussion and conjecture over time. Also Read: Gandhi Jayanti 2023 LIVE Updates: ‘Mahatma practised complete transparency,’ says Jairam Ramesh The exclusion of Mahatma Gandhi from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize is a result of intricate and diverse factors. One of the main challenges was that Gandhi did not conform to the conventional criteria established by the Nobel Committee for potential awardees.

Nobel Prize announcements begin Monday with the unveiling of the winner of the medicine award. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was won last year by Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for discoveries in human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA which provided key insights into our immune system, including our vulnerability to severe COVID-19. The award was the second in the family.

Nobel Prize season. October marks the time when the Nobel committees convene in Stockholm and Oslo to unveil the recipients of these prestigious annual awards. First in line, as is customary, is the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology, set to be announced by a panel of judges at the Karolinska Institute in the Swedish capital on Monday.

atomic bomb, the pivotal moment of discovering nuclear fission is often portrayed with key figures like Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann. However, as we delve deeper into this piece of history, a significant omission comes to light – the remarkable role of physicist Lise Meitner. Meitner, a contemporary of renowned scientists such as Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, worked closely with Otto Hahn and played a critical role in the theory of nuclear fission. Yet, the pages of history have not given her the recognition she deserves.

Also Read: Google Doodle celebrates 40th anniversary of discovery of 9,000-year-old Ain Ghazal statues The description noted, “Unfortunately, the writer grew ill and lost her home during World War II, causing her to temporarily retreat from the literary world." Enchi eventually found her way back to the pen and focused more on fiction, writing tales that explored the gender discrimination, lack of equality, and wrongful treatment of women caused by Japan’s patriarchal society. In 1953, she won the Women’s Literature Prize for her story ‘Starving Days’.

The Economic Times Startup Awards on Saturday, October 7. The star-studded event in Bengaluru is set to host a galaxy of business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers — marking the ninth edition of the country’s most coveted awards for entrepreneurial excellence.

Boston Red Sox, who has passed away at the age of 57. Wakefield's journey through the world of baseball is one that is marked by resilience and success. Here’s all about it;

North Korea soccer coach Sin Yong Nam defended his players after several clashed with match officials on the pitch after their 2-1 defeat to Japan in the Asian Games quarter-finals in Hangzhou on Sunday. North Korea captain Jang Kuk Chol and team mate Kim Kyong Sok remonstrated heatedly with referee Rustam Lutfullin after the final whistle, pursuing the Uzbek in the middle of the pitch as he tried to back away. With the confrontation drawing in the assistant referees and several security staff, the North Korean coach also ran to his players to try to defuse the situation. The North Korean players were earlier furious when Lutfullin awarded a penalty to Japan after goalkeeper Kang Juh Yok charged out and clipped the feet of Jun Nishikawa with an outstretched arm. Waving his arms and shaking his head, an angry Kang argued with the referee before Yuta Matsumura slotted home from the spot in the 80th minute to see Japan through at the Xiaoshan Sports Centre Stadium.