Mother Teresa was an infamous nun and is a canonized saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She is known for her devotion to the poor and even won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work (Britannica).

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

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 ...

He asked Mother Teresa to establish a religious community ... beginning with the Indian Padmashri Award in 1962 and notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, honored her work, while an increasingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The predecessor to Banerjee of being an Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics is Amartya Sen. Sen won the award in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. Sen was born in Shantiniketan in ...

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 ...