Medicine Nobel for work on immune system Mary E Brunkow Institute for Systems Biology, seattle, USA HYDERABAD l Tuesday l October 07, 2025 l `9.00 l PAGES 16 l LATE CITY EDITION Fred Ramsdell Sonoma Biotherapeutics, San Francisco, USA Shimon Sakaguchi Osaka University, Osaka, JAPAN Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Dr Shimon Sakaguchi on Monday won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering how the body regulates T-cells to prevent autoimmune attacks on healthy tissues. 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Ramasubramanian, Presenting Partner Celebration Partner Silver Partners Associate Partners Content Partner Chairperson of the NHRC and former Judge of Supreme Court of India HYDERABAD HYDERABAD Jury decides Ramnath Goenka award winners, announcement on Nov 28 E x press N e w s S er v i c e @ New Delhi Winners of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman (RNGSS) 2025 were on Monday decided at a meeting of the external and internal jury chaired , by author and former diplomat Pavan Varma, author Githa Hariharan and economist and member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council Sanjeev Sanyal. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony in Delhi on November 28. The RNGSS is named in honour of Ramnath Goenka, a doyen of the Indian print industry and visionary of The New Indian Express (TNIE) Group. Authors Ruskin Bond and Perumal Murug an (for Lifetime Achievement), Devika Rege (Fiction) and Anirudh Kanisetti (Non-Fiction) have been past winners. For the third edition of the RNGSS, the team at TNIE began work on the longlist in July Several suggestions and . submissions came in from senior editors of various centres across the country from New Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Odisha. In addition, publishers shared their recommendations. Books released between July 2024 and June 2025 were considered for nomination. Cutting down longlists into half meant putting the spotlight on books of the moment, books that should matter, giving authors and ideas a platform, a time of excitement and goal setting for us and our readers. The 2025 edition of RNGSS will be given under four categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Debut, and Lifetime Achievement.  Continued on: P7 Bihar polls on Nov 6 & 11 US pharma major to P R E E T H A N A I R & R A J E S H K u m ar t H A K U R @ New Delhi Jubilee Hills bypoll on Nov 11 AS Bihar gears up for a twophase election on November 6 and 11, it will decide the fate of the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) of the opposition, which is eyeing a return to power in the state. For the ruling NDA, led by the BJP and JD(U), retaining power is about setting the tone for 2029 LS polls. While the grand alliance is yet to announce its seat-sharing formula, the polls are seen as a test of unity for the main players RJD and the Congress. The uneasy relationship between the two may deepen as Congress is looking to bargain for some ‘winnable seats’. The Congress contested 70 seats in 2020 but won only 19. The party is expected to contest 60–65 seats to accommodate alliance partners, said a leader. The RJD contested 144 seats and won 75, while the CPI(ML) contested 19 and won 12. According to Opposition leaders, another factor that will 21 INSIDE 13 October: Poll notification October: Last date for filing nominations 22 October: Scrutiny of nominations 11 Nov: Polling 24 October: Last date for withdrawal 14 Nov: Counting dent their prospects is the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls that cut the number of electors from 7.89 crore to 7.43 crore. They see it as a potential tool of disenfranchisement of economically backward, migrants, Muslims, Dalits, and other marginalised groups who support them. In that context, the Election Commission of India’s actions will be under intense scrutiny and the Bihar election will be a test of its credibility The elec. tions will also reveal whether Opposition’s main plank of BJP’s alleged ‘vote theft’ reso- Fire in ICU of Jaipur hospital kills EIGHT patients | P8 invest $1 billion in state E x press N e w s S er v i c e @ Hyderabad District Election Officer and GHMC Commissioner RV Karnan announces the bypoll schedule while Hyderabad police chief VC Sajjanar looks on nated with the Bihar voters. The NDA hopes to win riding on ‘20 years of development’ and welfare programmes. Retaining Bihar is crucial for the ruling alliance because a defeat could weaken its march to the 2029 Lok Sabha elections. As for JDU chief and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, a victory would cement his legacy while a defeat could end his relevance. Meanwhile, the entrant Prashant Kishor’s party is expected to leave a dent on the Opposition vote banks especially the upper caste and the young. In a major boost to investments in Telangana, US pharma major Eli Lilly will invest $1 billion to set up a manufacturing and quality hub in the state. With this investment, the pharma company plans to expand its global medicine supply capacity . The announcement was made after the company’s global delegation met Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu at the Integrated Command and Control Centre on Monday . The chief minister thanked the Eli Lilly delegation for choosing Telangana for its in- vestment and assured them of the government’s full support. Revanth attributed Hyderabad’s growth as a pharma hub to former prime minister Indira Gandhi’s initiative in establishing IDPL in Hyderabad in 1965. “Indira Gandhi’s initiative in 1965 is the reason why Hyderabad stands as a hub of bulk drug manufacturing. 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