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The first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize ever, Youyou Tu, 85, could not have imagined to become an icon for her quest to understand traditional medicine to find a new drug to defeat the most common malaria menace. Born in China on 30 December, 1930, Youyou found artemisinin (Qinghaosu) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which saved millions ...

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has called for zero poverty in the world and sought the microfinance professionals to work to achieve the goal. After inaugurating the new corporate office of NBFC-MFI Grameen Koota in Bangalore early this month, Prof Yunus, who inscribed his message “Keep Changing the world” on the wall, said: “We have to create a world where we ...