Shabana 1st Indian to win Gandhi Peace Prize
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Shabana Azmi becomes the first Indian to receive the prestigious International Gandhi Peace Prize.
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Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi would have &quot;stood up to&quot; the Taliban and Osama bin Laden if he were alive today, one of his grandsons said in an interview.
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Accolades and honours never end for veteran actress and social activist Shabana Azmi. Right now she is in Britain where Leeds University will honour her with a doctorate.
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Yusuf Islam, the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens, has received a peace award from a group of Nobel Prize winners. In a public ceremony, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and other Nobel Peace Prize
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Long jumper Anju Bobby George, who won India's first world championship medal by claiming bronze in Paris last year, was awarded the country's highest sports prize on Wednesday.
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Ashes of India's freedom icon Mahatma Gandhi were scattered on Wednesday off the coast of Mumbai in a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of his assassination by a Hindu fanatic.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for fighting poverty by trying to save the  continent's shrinking forests.
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As much of the world marked Sept. 11 by remembering the 2001 attacks on the United States, India celebrated it as a day of peace &#151; the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas K. Gandhi's philosophy of peaceful resistance.
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She is the first African woman to be awarded the peace prize since it was created in 1901. A surprised Mrs Maathai broke the news to reporters minutes before the official announcement.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has become the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for aiding the continent&#39;s poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize today for her work as leader of an organization that has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa.
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NEW DELHI -- India chose its first female president yesterday in an election hailed as a victory for women in a country where gender discrimination is deep-rooted and widespread.
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A distinctly African setting framed the award of this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to the first woman from that continent to receive the prestigious honor.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize, first awarded in 1901...
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ASIA/INDIA - Il Vescovo del Kashmir riceve il premio Mahatma Gandhi, per la prima volta assegnato a un leader cattolico New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Mons. Celestine Elampassery, Vescovo di Jammu- Srinagar, nella travagliata regione del Kashmir indiano, ha ricevuto il Premio Mahatma Gandhi per il suo notevole contributo alla societÃ , in particolar modo per le iniziative...
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan who created a women&#39;s movement which has planted more than 30m trees in 20 countries, became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize yesterday.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.