People should work together to maintain unity: Amartya Sen"I think if someone asks me if I'm scared of something, I would say 'yes'. There is a reason to be afraid now. The current situation in the...
01 Jul, 2022, 10.19 AM IST
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen conferred with Spain's top award in social sciencesIn his best-known work, 'Poverty and Famines. In an Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981)', Sen demonstrated that hunger is not a con...
26 May, 2021, 07.27 PM IST
Kaushik Kaushik Basu takes over as IEA president"Basu's leadership kicked off with the closing of IEA's 18th World Congress in Mexico, at which Basu spoke, along with Cornell's Ravi Kanbu...
27 Jun, 2017, 03.40 PM IST
Amartya Sen skeptical over PM Narendra Modi's idea of secularismAmartya Sen expressed skepticism about PM's idea of secularism, asserting he would like to see "more action" in reaching out to the minorit...
07 Jul, 2015, 11.11 PM IST
Scientific progress helped by sharing of ideas, says Nobel laureate Amartya SenNobel laureate Amartya Sen said the march of civilisation and scientific progress was driven through time by "international and inter-regio...
06 Jan, 2015, 04.39 AM IST
Kailash Satyarthi's autographed chair, Amartya Sen's bicycle at Nobel museumThe museum has over 230 such signatures. Famous signatories include Barack Obama, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, economist John N...
16 Dec, 2014, 02.16 PM IST
India subsidising privileged more than poorest of poor: Amartya SenRenowned economist Amartya Sen today said Indian governments were subsidising "privileged consumers" more than the "poorest of the poor".
19 Dec, 2013, 10.19 PM IST
India needs to invest heavily in education, research: President Pranab MukherjeePresident Pranab Mukherjee said India needs to invest heavily in education, research & innovation to claim its rightful place as an advance...
14 Dec, 2013, 09.07 PM IST
Amartya Sen shouldn’t worry about a politician’s qualification to be PM: BJPPradhan drew attention to Sen’s reluctance to pass any value judgement on Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
24 Jul, 2013, 04.32 AM IST
- West Bengal should improve its higher education standards: Amartya Sen
The state should improve the over-all standard of higher education in the state and not just the Presidency University, said the nobel laur...
09 Jul, 2011, 08.53 PM IST
- Western economies can learn from India: Amartya Sen
At a time when western world is facing severe crisis, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen believes that they can learn from countries such as India ...
04 Jun, 2011, 01.29 PM IST
- Rajat Gupta resigns from PHFI
Rajat Gupta, the former McKinsey & Co chief accused of insider trading in the US, has resigned from the board of Public Health Foundation o...
17 Mar, 2011, 11.59 AM IST
- India gifts $4.5 m to Harvard to set up fund
India has gifted $4.5 mn to Harvard University to establish a fund in the honour of nobel laureate Amartya Sen, which would provide fellows...
12 Dec, 2008, 12.27 AM IST
- India needs to rectify its 'failures': Amartya Sen
Though India's progress on certain aspects like the economic growth is noteworthy, it has to address "huge shortfalls" in other areas like ...
14 Aug, 2007, 11.00 PM IST
- India needs to rectify its 'failures' to progress well: Sen
Though India's progress on certain aspects like the economic growth is noteworthy, it has to address "huge shortfalls" in other areas like ...
14 Aug, 2007, 10.16 PM IST
- Labour liberalisation increases efficiency
Noble prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has said that even a small liberalisation in movement of labour can increase global efficienc...
18 Dec, 2006, 07.55 PM IST
- Reform must benefit underprivileged: Amartya
Circa 800 BC, Maitreyi asked her husband Yagnyavalkya whether wealth would make her immortal and Yagnyavalkya replied in the negative. What...
28 Jan, 2004, 07.29 AM IST