In a rare honour, the Presidency University on Thursday decided to emboss facsimiles of the faces of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Amartya Sen - the two Nobel laureates in its list of distinguished alumni - on its wall.
Stepping up his attack on the Centre, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said no one in the government seems to have felt "a pang of guilt" over Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Benerjee's remarks that the Indian economy is "doing very badly".
Sourav Ganguly, who is set to take over as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said Abhijit Banerjee's feat was a much bigger achievement.
The Indian Cricket Board president-elect Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said the achievement of Nobel prize winner and fellow Bangali Abhijit Banerjee was much bigger than his.
When "the economy going into a tailspin is the time when you don't worry so much about monetary stability and you worry a little more about demand, the demand is a huge problem right now in the economy," he said at a news conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge on Monday after his prize was announced.
Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics along with two others. He will share the award with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard professor Michael Kremer for their work which has "dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice." Here are 7 things to know about Abhijit Banerjee.
Abhijit Banerjee, the Indian-American economist has been awarded Nobel prize for economics. Along with Abhijit Banerjee the Nobel has been awarded to Esther Duflo and Micheal Kremer.
The Nobel Economics Prize 2019 has been awarded to husband-wife duo Abhijit Banerjee-Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. The prize is given for creating an experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. They share the prestigious award with American development economist Michael Kremer. Let us know their journey behind winning Nobel Prize in Economics 2019.
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
The constituency has been a Congress bastion over the past 15 years, electing its then veteran leader Pranab Mukherjee in 2004 and 2009.
New Delhi: The Finance Commission has suggested raising share of states in central taxes to 42 per cent from current 32 per cent.As per the increased devolution suggested in the report of the 14th Finance
Kolkata: Ending four months of a bitter standoff with protesting students, Jadavpur University Vice Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti on Tuesday announced his much-anticipated resignation, saying he had to step down in face of "undemocratic" and "unconstitutional"
Kolkata: Even as Jadavpur University students on Monday went euphoric over the news of vice chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti resigning, questions were being raised over the legality of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announcing the
Kolkata: As the fast unto death of Jadavpur University students entered second day today, Vice-chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti appealed the protesters to come to the negotiating table.Eleven students from different departments of the university are sitting
Kolkata: Jadavpur University Vice-Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti yesterday said he lodged a verbal complaint with police about four unidentified car-borne youths who tried to intercept him when he was on his way home this evening. Chakroborty
Kolkata: After over two months of a series of student protests that rocked Jadavpur University, Vice Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti on Wednesday agreed to form an inquiry committee into the events, including alleged police action on
Mumbai: Indian Super League side Chennaiyin FC have replaced injured goalkeeper Abhijit Mondal with Italian Francesco Franzese, an ISL statement said.Abhijit had sustained a knee injury during training and will not be available for the
New Delhi: First look of Amitabh Bachchan in Shoojit Sircar's ‘Piku' is out and he has again succeeded in showing off his versatility. Big B who has a penchant for trying out different looks for his
Kolkata: With politics in West Bengal gradually becoming polarised between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP, a section of Congress leaders in the state have called for unification of secular forces to stop "communal
Kirnahar(WB): President Pranab Mukherjee today said Durga puja is not only a religious programme, it is also a social festival.“Durga puja is not only a religious programme, it is a social festival. On this occasion
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