Tag: Nobel laureate
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Voice of sanity
India has, despite the urging of informed quarters, till now missed the chance to play honest broker in resolving the crisis in Myanmar.
July 2, 2021 -
Country could be passing through recession: Economist Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee, during an address at the Kolkata Literary Meet, also said the priority of the government should be on refinancing the banking sector, which is in 'doldrums'.
January 28, 2020 -
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee lauds Delhi govt schools for outperforming private peers
Banerjee also pitched strongly for leaving syllabus setting to the individual institutions, rather than making it centralised where boards set the syllabi.
January 12, 2020 -
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee visits Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Dev Sen gifted her book titled Bhalobashar Baranda to Banerjee, who had some refreshments at her residence.
October 24, 2019 -
Bigots blinded by hatred, Indians proud of your work: Rahul Gandhi slams Piyush Goyal while defending Nobel Laureate
Earlier, on Friday Union minister of Commerce and Industries Piyush Goyal dubbed Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel for Economics, as Left-leaning.
October 20, 2019 -
Piyush Goyal says Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee is ‘Left-leaning’
Goyal made the remarks at a media briefing held at Pune where he went to campaign for BJP for the upcoming Assembly elections.
October 18, 2019 -
Bangladesh court issues arrest warrant against Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus
Yunus is chairman of GC, did not attend the hearing because he was in abroad. The chief executive officer and a senior manager at the company appeared at the court and secured bai
October 10, 2019 -
Solzhenitsyn is 100
Solzhenitsyn was acutely aware that fascism, Nazism or totalitarianism are all examples of gigantic collective power to ensure that the people cannot defend themselves. If anybody wants to fight against the lies of the administration, he should start fighting against the ‘lies in himself‘.
December 25, 2018 -
The Misplaced Syringe
He was a scientist and she was a language student. They were from different corners of the globe: he from southern England, she from northern Finland. Unexpectedly, their paths crossed. While in grammar school, Lawrence played cricket energetically, but after a match, unlike his mates, he would sneak back into school to do something different: …
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August 27, 2018 -
Mamata remembers Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday took to Twitter to remember Indian-American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Har Gobind Khorana on his 96th birth anniversary. Remembering Nobel laureate scientist Har Gobind Khorana on his birth anniversary — Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) January 9, 2018 Known for his comprehensive work on DNA and for constructing first synthetic gene, …
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January 9, 2018 -
What’s acceptable and what is not
In an interview, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has talked of the girls’ education projects she is supporting in Pakistan but she declined to identify them lest they also face a security threat. A little over 20, Malala may be everyone’s darling. Wherever she travels from her UK base — from the Middle East, to Africa …
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November 6, 2017 -
Neruda nostalgia
Memories of Pablo Neruda, well loved in India and Nobel Laureate in 1971, came alive in Kolkata and New Delhi with an exhibition by Chilean photographer Luis Poirot. He met the writer, diplomat and politician in 1969. The exhibition titled “Neruda: Absence and Presence” had evocative images of Neruda, his possessions, and his surroundings, providing …
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October 23, 2017 -
12,000 km in 35 days: Kailash Satyarthi’s Bharat Yatra ends at Rashtrapati Bhavan
After covering over 12,000 km in 35 days, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s ‘Bharat Yatra’, a movement to spread awareness about child abuse and trafficking, came to an end on Monday at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. In this Yatra, Satyarthi garnered support from all sections of the society through 300 marches across the country. Appreciating the …
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October 16, 2017 -
BJP supports CBFC move to red flag Amartya Sen documentary
Supporting CBFC's decision to red flag director Suman Ghosh's documentary on Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday said the board had the power to pass a movie or stall it based on its evaluation. "The board has the right to decide which film to censor and which to pass. …
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July 12, 2017 -
China rejects EU demand for Nobel laureate’s release
China strongly opposed a resolution passed by the European Parliament urging Beijing to release from house arrest Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who is suffering from terminal-stage liver cancer, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. Beijing urged the international community to respect China's sovereignty and to refrain from interfering in its internal affairs, ministry spokesperson …
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July 7, 2017 -
China releases Nobel laureate with terminal cancer
China's jailed Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer last month, his lawyer said on Monday. “He's now being treated at a hospital in Shenyang (in northeast Liaoning province). He has no special plans. He is just receiving medical treatment for his illness,” lawyer Mo …
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June 26, 2017 -
Malala hopes to study philosophy, politics, economics at Oxford
Pakistani Nobel laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai has given an admission test at the prestigious Oxford University where she hopes to study philosophy, politics and economics, a media report said on Friday. Yousufzai, while speaking to the media, said that her interview was not easy and like any other student she is anxiously waiting …
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January 13, 2017