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Pedro Sanchez, a global champion who fed the world’s poor dies at 85Pedro A. Sanchez, a soil scientist, passed away at 85. He revolutionized agriculture in poor nations, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. San...
Alice Wong, disability rights activist and author, dies at 51Alice Wong, a prominent disability rights activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed away at 51. She was a fierc...
Shailaja Paik: Indian-American professor gets over Rs 6.7 crore "genius" grant for research on Dalit womenShailaja Paik, an Indian-American researcher on Dalit women, has been awarded an $800,000 MacArthur 'genius' grant. Paik, a history profess...
Iconic American author Cormac McCarthy passes away at 89The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, who was best known for books such as 'The Road' and 'No Country For Old Men'., died on June 13.
Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win 2019 Nobel Economics Prize"This year's Laureates have introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty," the acade...
Indian American scientists to get MacArthur FellowshipThe Indian-Americans - Manu Prakash and Subhash Khot - are alumunus of Indian Institiute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur and Bombay respectiv...
ET Recommendations: Book, gadget and appThe Emerald Light in the Air', the title story, narrates the protagonist’s battle with depression but ends on a small note of salvation and...
Dr Jim Yong Kim is no financier, but that could be his strength in race for World Bank chiefJim Yong Kim, the physician and Dartmouth College president tapped by the US to run the World Bank, represents a break from the financiers ...