Anand refuses to accept honorary doctorate
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand has refused to accept the honorary doctorate, which was to have been conferred on him by the University of Hyderabad at a special convocation at the ongoing International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 here on Tuesday.
Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan is to receive an honorary doctorate from an Australian university later this week, two years after he originally turned the offer down.