Stockholm: Indian-American economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, and his French-American wife Esther Duflo were conferred the Nobel Prize for Economics in Sweden here, alongside their American colleague Michael Kremer. Unlike other laureates, who arrived in tuxedos and fancy Red Carpet dresses, the couple glorified the prestigious occasion in traditional Indian attire. Abhijit wore a black bandhgala […]
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‘The condition of Indian economy is on a shaky ground’: Nobel awardee Abhijit Banerjee
Boston: Fifty-eight-year old Indian American Abhijit Banerjee is the toast of MIT Sloan and India by becoming the sixth Kolkatan to win a Nobel Prize. Banerjee, his wife and one-time Ph.D student Esther Duflo, and Harvard professor Michael Kremer were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work which has “dramatically improved our ability […]
Indian-origin Abhijit Banerjee wins Nobel Prize in Economics for study on poverty
Stockholm: The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Indian-origin MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”, it was announced on Monday. Banerjee was born in 1961 in Mumbai. He is a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a Professor of Economics at […]
Poverty forces dad to drown 20-day-old twin girls in UP
Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh): In a shocking incident in Muzaffarnagar’s Bhikki village, a father killed his 20-day-old twin daughters by drowning them in a pond because he could not afford to raise them. The parents of the twins Waseem and Nazma have been arrested for the killing that took place on Sunday. Wasem, who works as […]