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HC stays Visva-Bharati's move to take part of Amartya Sen's land

Calcutta high court on Thursday gave an interim stay against a move by Visva Bharati to take away a part of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's property Pratichi at Shantiniketan. IMAGE: A 2019......

Visva-Bharati gives 2 options to Amartya Sen to settle land issue

Amid the exchange of words between Visva-Bharati and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen over the economist's alleged unauthorised possession of land, the university on Sunday asked the economist either to......

Amartya Sen appointed chancellor of Nalanda University

Noble laureate Amartya Sen was appointed chancellor of theupcoming Nalanda University by the board of governors in a meeting in Patna on Thursday, officials said."Amartya Sen has been appointed......

3 share Physics Nobel for short pulses of light to study electrons

Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of......

Mamata visits Abhijit Banerjee's mother after Nobel win

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday paid a visit to Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee's house in South Kolkata and congratulated his mother on her son's success and said the state......

Why Yunus likes to be known as promoter of 'social business'

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus was in India recently to promote the concept of social business and to discuss ways to tackle social problems ranging from poverty to poor healthcare.......

Yunus wants govt out of micro-finance

Any initiative backed by a political institution and intention, would not achieve the desired result of serving the common man. The pre-condition of success is its management by a private entity......

India, China can rule global IT, energy

In 1962, Dutch economist and Noble laureate Jan Tinbergen came out with the 'gravity theory of trade' and immediately created ripples in the staid world of trade theorists. His theory that trade......

Tax agriculture, says Nobel laureate

Nobel laureate James A Mirrlees on Thursday asked India to extend its tax base from salaried class to agriculture and unorganised sectors in order to keep its burgeoning fiscal deficit under......

Bhagwati takes a swipe at Stiglitz

Noted economist Jagdish Bhagwati on Wednesday took a dig at Noble laureate Joseph Stiglitz for his anti-trade liberalisation stand.Delivering a lecture on "Trade policy choices before India : Doha......

The Most Memorable Goodbye Turns 50

'Garm Hava understands that the scorching, hate-filled, doubt-filled affair between Hindus and Muslims is our national love affair.' Sreehari Nair revisits M S Sathyu's classic film, featuring the......

Will Smith be able to sleep peacefully?

‘I asked him (His Holiness) a question about sleep and how he could help me and he gave me his blessings’ IMAGE: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama meets Australian cricket team......