Nobel Prize Winners in India: From Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa to Amartya Sen, here is the full listThe Nobel Prize recognizes outstanding global contributions in various fields, with several Indians achieving this honor. Key laureates inc...
07 Oct, 2024, 04.26 PM IST
SC upholds acquittal of Gammon India promoter Abhijit Rajan in insider trading caseA two judge Supreme Court bench of Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice V Ramasubramanian noted that the contract of Gammon was for a Rs. 16...
19 Sep, 2022, 09.01 PM IST
Waiter, there's an economist in my soup!Given I can barely cook to save my life, I reached out to Banerjee and Olivier. We were on Zoom and he was in Boston. A chat with him prove...
18 Dec, 2021, 10.50 PM IST
- Economists, Get Your Cookbooks Out!
We suggest a few economists pick up the ladle with one hand and a pen with the other and leave their mark in the gastronomic field. Jean Dr...
30 Nov, 2021, 11.42 PM IST
Pranab's son wants to live up to his father's legacy in new role in TMCMukherjee, an engineer-turned politician, said he also wants to help work towards re-industrialising eastern India, which he feels can be t...
06 Jul, 2021, 05.48 PM IST
View: Direct cash transfer is not the vaccine for reviving GDP. It’s not even anti-viral remdesivirEconomists like Raghuram Rajan, Abhijit V Banerjee and Manmohan Singh, as well as politicians like P Chidambaram and Yogendra Yadav, have b...
04 Dec, 2020, 09.34 AM IST
View: Economies of the 21st century are too complex for a State vs market binaryFrom masters of the universe, are economists now switching to be the gods of small things? Interestingly, last year, well before the hint o...
19 Oct, 2020, 11.28 PM IST
Bill Gates is back with his summer reading list - this time with content to face the pandemic and take a break from itIt's more than just books on the list this time.
22 May, 2020, 01.09 PM IST
View: Despite doubts, there’s enough proof to conclude that foreign trade is good for poorAreas where workers faced foreign competition tended to have greater reduction in poverty rates.
29 Nov, 2019, 06.06 AM IST
View: How randomised control trials have indeed been an effective tool for development economicsAn RCT randomly allocates volunteers to, say, two groups. One is treated with the drug in question, the other with a placebo. There are ove...
28 Oct, 2019, 10.58 PM IST
Project to turn India into majoritarian nation has 'crippled' economy: CongressCongress spokesperson Manish Tewari also said the slowdown has a humanitarian side to it as manifested in death due to heart attack of an a...
15 Oct, 2019, 04.23 PM IST
When two Nobel laureates, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Paul Krugman met at ET GBS 2015At the 2015 ET Global Business Summit, 2019 Economics Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and 2008 Economics Nobel laureate Paul Krugma...
14 Oct, 2019, 11.11 PM IST
Abhijit Banerjee joins list of Indian, Indian-origin Nobel LaureatesIndian-American Abhijit Banerjee on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Economics, joining the list of Indians and people of Indian origin to gr...
14 Oct, 2019, 06.48 PM IST
Five shortlisted for Visva-Bharati Varsity V-C post; Some have controversial pastWhile vigilance clearances are awaited in some cases following which the names will be sent for presidential approval, the choice of names ...
30 Aug, 2018, 07.32 AM IST
Secrets Act panel boss against opening Netaji filesThe move came after Netaji's grandnephew Surya Bose met Modi in Berlin and pressed for the declassification of the files.
18 Apr, 2015, 12.04 PM IST
Jadavpur University students end hunger strike as Mamata Banerjee announces V-C's resignationThe CM's announcement was greeted with loud cheers by the agitating students who also announced an end to their hunger strike.
13 Jan, 2015, 01.42 PM IST
- Food Security Bill: An open letter from economists to PM
We welcome the tabling of a National Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha as an important step towards the elimination of hunger and undernu...
12 Mar, 2012, 07.38 AM IST