Nobel Memorial Week strengthens Sweden-India ties

New Delhi News.Net Saturday 11th October, 2008 (IANS) The Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Week was inaugurated in the capital Saturday, coinciding with the announcement of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner. The Nobel Memorial Week, inaugurated by the Swedish ambassador to India Lars-Olof Lindgren, will promote awareness about the awards, the culture of the host country - Sweden, and boost bilateral ties between India and Sweden that nurture a shared history of global peace initiatives. Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland, won this year's Nobel Prize for peace. The Nobel Prize winners from India include Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, economist Amartya Sen, medical scientist Hargobind Khorana, missionary Mother Teresa, physicists C.V. Raman and Subramanian Chandrasekhar. The week began with a Nobel quiz at the... [read full story]