This year’s Nobel Prize, for findings that disprove the perception that increased minimum wages cost jobs, should spur the government to make the Code on Wages more effective.
October 25, 2021The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Physics Nobel to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems"
October 5, 2021In a statement, he said that the engineering syllabus would be revised to equip all the students to get jobs.
August 12, 2021Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.
October 5, 2020In December 2017, Behn accused disgraced Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey when the actor hosted a Nobel Prize concert.
December 27, 2019Dr Banerjee, Dr Duflo, and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on October 14, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."
December 12, 2019Abhijit Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo, both working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Harvard University professor Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on 14 October “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
October 23, 2019They choose an area where a particular policy is applied as against other control areas.
October 17, 2019Banerjee's statement on Indian government's failing financial policies comes after Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, former finance minister Manmohan Singh and former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan advised the Modi administration against some of its drastic decisions like demonetisation and GST.
October 15, 2019Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo, both working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Harvard University professor Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.'
October 15, 2019Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics jointly with his wife Esther Duflo and another economist Michael Kremer.
October 14, 2019Some of the names attracting the buzz are, poet Anne Carson and novelist Margaret Atwood, as well as Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Polish writer and activist Olga Tokarczuk, French Guadeloupean Maryse Conde, South Korean writer Han Kang.
October 10, 2019The mechanism has given researchers new insights into treatments for anaemia, cancer and other diseases, beyond describing a fundamental physiological process that helps animals to thrive in some of the highest regions on Earth.
October 7, 2019Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday declined to comment on US President Donald Trump’s claims that he has nominated the American leader for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
February 18, 2019One half of last year’s Nobel Prize in physics has celebrated optical tweezers which enables detailed study of biological specimens in a way that was not possible using conventional methods.
January 9, 2019The coincidence is as remarkable as it is profoundly critical. In parallel with the award of the Nobel prize in Economics to two economists who have worked on the “green growth” model, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has emitted a direly disconcerting signal to the world from Incheon in South Korea. In a …
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October 10, 2018On Tuesday, optical physicist Donna Strickland became the third woman to have been awarded a Nobel Physics Prize.
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