KATHMANDU, Dec 11: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has announced cash prizes for the Nepali medal winners at  recently held 13th South Asian Games.

KATHMANDU, Nov 26: The government has yet to decide on the prize money to be given to the medal-winners in the upcoming 13th South Asian Games to be held in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Janakpur from December 1 to 10.

Nobel Prizes for literature were awarded Thursday to two writers enmeshed in Europe’s social and political fault lines: a liberal Pole who has irked her country’s conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes.

Phoolman Bal and Shankar Chapagain (Dhankute Kanchha) have been awarded with Yuba Barsa Moti Prize-2076 BS.

KATHMANDU, June 22: Kamal Kaushal Stores from Kathmandu has received a Mahindra Gusto scooter as the prize from a lucky draw conducted by Nepal Republic Media under its subscriber's scheme for the sellers of Nagarik Daily.

MELBOURN, Jan 13: Novak Djokovic says he is satisfied with how the grand slams are reacting to a player-led push for bigger paychecks - but that it’s not about increasing his own bank balance.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 8: Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer won the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for work in integrating climate change and technological innovation into economic analysis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

WASHINGTON DC, June 28: Joel Davis, who helped found Youth to End Sexual Violence and was chairman of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict, was arrested Tuesday in Manhattan on charges of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, and possession, receipt and distribution of child pornography.

The Swedish Academy has been in turmoil since November when Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter published the testimonies of 18 women claiming to have been raped, sexually assaulted or harassed by an influential culture figure with long-standing ties to the Academy.

KATHMANDU, April 25: Director of Nepal Republic Media, Shova Gyawali has handed a winner prize to Shankar Karna Kyastha, Principal of Glory School Madhyapur, Thimi on Tuesday.

The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded annually by the American Economic Association (AEA) to “that American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.”  Parag Pathak, 37, is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research proved that school choice can lead to improved student performance.

April 17: Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday to the news organizations that drove two of the biggest stories of the year: the high-stakes investigation into President Trump’s relationship with Russia and the consequential reckoning about the treatment of women by powerful men.

PAKISTAN, Mar 31: Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Saturday arrived in her hometown of Mingora for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012 for advocating girls’ education.

KATHMANDU, Feb 19: The government has announced Rs 300,000 cash prize for each Nepali cricket team members. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has announced the cash prize for the Nepali national cricket team members on Monday.

Aaha-Rara prize money increased

January 10, 2018 11:12 am

POKHARA, Jan 10: The prize money of the 16th edition of the Aaha-Rara Gold Cup, one of the most popular football tournaments in Nepal, has been increased.

KATHMANDU, Jan 2: Menuka Chapagain of Morang has bagged the first prize in the Worldwide Nepali Poetry Video Contest 2017 held by Chhanda Alankar, an association of Nepali litterateurs.

2018 Hult Prize at Kathmandu University

December 16, 2017 12:54 pm

KATHMANDU, Dec 16: The second edition of Hult Prize at Kathmandu University (KU) was organized successfully by a team of Kathmandu University students on December 12, at KU premises in Dhulikhel.

Hult Prize at TU’s School of Management

November 22, 2017 08:42 am

KATHMANDU: The Hult Prize Foundation recently announced the inaugural Hult Prize at School of Management, Tribhuvan University event on December 13, 2017.

KATHMANDU, Nov 14: Kenyan runner Philip Yiego won the Mount Everest Marathon Goodwill Prize in Kanchenjunga Marathon held in Sikkim, India last week.

KATHMANDU, Nov 13: Kenyan runner Philip Yiego has won the Mount Everest Marathon Goodwill Prize in the Kanchenjunga Marathon held in Sikkim, India, last week.

KATHMANDU, Nov 7: The Hult Prize Foundation recently announced the inaugural Hult Prize at School of Management, Tribhuvan University event on December 13, 2017.

Various teams competing for the next edition of Hult Prize 2017/18, a global idea competition that invites applicants from all over the world to solve global problems, have started registering their teams.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 9: The Nobel economics prize has been awarded to American economist Richard H. Thaler of University of Chicago for his contributions to behavioral economics.

ICAN receives Nobel Peace Prize

October 6, 2017 14:48 pm

KATHMANDU, Oct 6: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 4:  Three researchers based in the U.S., U.K. and Switzerland won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developments in electron microscopy.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 3: The Latest on the Nobel Physics Prize (all times local):

STOCKHOLM, Oct 2: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three Americans on Monday for discoveries about the body’s daily rhythms.

KATHMANDU, May 8: Vishwajyoti Mall has said that it was offering sure shot prize to customers on purchase of mobile phones at the ongoing Mobile Mart.

MAHOTARI, May 6: Journalist and social worker, Raj Karan Mahato, has announced he will contribute the money he received as part of an award for the education of children from the Musahar settlement.

A Hungarian love story called ‘On Body and Soul’ about two lonely hearts working in a slaughterhouse in Budapest won the Golden Bear for best film on Saturday at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: The Sunhak Peace Prize Committee awarded 2017 Sunhak Peace Prize to Dr Gino Strada, an Italian surgeon, and Dr Sakena Yacoobi, an Afghan women’s education professor.

Five teams have qualified to compete in a $30 million Google-backed competition to land and operate robotic spacecraft on the surface of the moon, the XPrize Foundation said on Tuesday.

Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will perform in Sweden in April, offering the singer a chance to give the lecture that is a requirement for getting the $870,000 prize.

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last month, has decided not to attend the award ceremony in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy said on Wednesday.

LIVERPOOL, Nov 5: Jordan Henderson wants Liverpool to be remembered for winning trophies rather than as the Premier League's great entertainers.

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature earlier this month, has now told the Swedish Academy that he will accept the prize.

Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature Prize

October 13, 2016 17:33 pm

American music legend Bob Dylan on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that stunned prize watchers.

OSLO, Norway, Oct 7:  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decades-long civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people in the South American country.

RATNANAGAR Oct 5: Two women of Nepal have been honoured with 'Prize for women's creativity in rural life'. The prize carrying a purse of 1,000 USD is presented by the Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) based in the Switzerland.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 5: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa have won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing molecular machines.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 4: British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for studies on exotic matter that could result in improved materials for electronics or quantum computers.

STOCKHOLM, Oct 3:  Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the degrading and recycling of cellular components.