Nobel Prize

On Abhijit Banerjee's Comment On Economy, P Chidambaram's Jab At Centre

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday October 16, 2019

Stepping up his attack on the Centre, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said no one in the government seems to have felt "a pang of guilt" over Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee's remarks that the Indian economy is "doing very badly".

Thankfully Abhijit Banerjee Did Not Get Nobel Prize For NYAY Scheme: Tathagata Roy

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday October 16, 2019

Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy, who has stirred controversy in the past with his comments, has criticised Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee for conceptualising the NYAY scheme of the Congress.

Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee's Economist Mother, Mamata Banerjee Talk Poverty Alleviation Over Tea

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Wednesday October 16, 2019

Nobel winner Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee's economist mother Professor Nirmala Banerjee, in an hour long 'adda' with Mamata Banerjee this afternoon told the chief minister she must create greater awareness about her government's interventions to alleviate poverty in West Bengal among potential beneficiaries and the general public so they could make inf...

Mamata Banerjee Visits Abhijit Banerjee's Mother After Nobel Win

India News | Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Wednesday October 16, 2019

Days after renowned economist Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Prize, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today visited hisSouth Kolkata residence to congratulate his mother.

Bengal Government Planning To Felicitate Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday October 15, 2019

West Bengal government is planning to organise a grand felicitation for Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, senior minister Partha Chatterjee said on Tuesday.

"His Achievement Bigger": Sourav Ganguly On Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel

India News | Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Tuesday October 15, 2019

Former cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly, who will take over as head of India's top cricketing body soon, today complimented economist Abhijit Banerjee over his achievement of winning the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work in the field of poverty alleviation.

Sourav Ganguly Congratulates Nobel Prize Winner Abhijit Banerjee, Hopes To "Meet Him One Day"

Prakash Rai | Tuesday October 15, 2019

Sourav Ganguly termed Abhijit Banerjee's achievement as "much bigger" and said that he was reading about his economic theory which earned him the coveted prize while on the flight.

Abhijit Banerjee Advised On NYAY, Hope It Becomes Reality: Priyanka Gandhi

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday October 15, 2019

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday congratulated Indian-origin economist Abhijit Banerjee on winning the Nobel Prize and hoped the party's minimum income guarantee scheme NYAY which he helped conceptualise will become a reality one day.

"Less Photo-Ops": Kapil Sibal Jabs PM Modi, Quotes Abhijit Banerjee

India News | Edited by Shylaja Varma | Tuesday October 15, 2019

Congress leader Kapil Sibal today quoted Abhijit Banerjee, Economics Nobel winner, to take a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the state of the county's economy.

"When Economy Is In A Tailspin...": Abhijit Banerjee Advises Government

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday October 15, 2019

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard's Michael Kremer, said on Monday that the Indian economy is "doing very badly" even as the government is increasingly recognising that there is a problem.

In Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee's Poverty Research, A Survey With Shoes

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday October 15, 2019

Successful micro-level field experiments like the one that established a connect between barefoot children, whooping cough and school drop outs in Africa characterise the works of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo who believe there can be no grand theory of underdevelopment, said economists.

"Immense Pride": Manmohan Singh On Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday October 15, 2019

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh congratulated Indian-origin economist Abhijit Banerjee on Monday for getting the Nobel Prize and said his work on poverty alleviation and development of new techniques was truly pathbreaking.

"He Showed Sparks Of Brilliance": Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee's Teacher

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday October 15, 2019

As Kolkata celebrates city boy Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel glory, his classmate and school teacher remember the MIT professor to be an introvert, who showed sparks of brilliance.

Abhijit Banerjee Went Back To Bed After Finding Out He Won The Nobel

India News | Edited by Anuj Pant | Monday October 14, 2019

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics today, said he went back to bed after receiving news of his monumental achievement.

A JNU Link In Nirmala Sitharaman's Congratulations For Abhijit Banerjee

India News | Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Monday October 14, 2019

Compliments flooded the social media when Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee and two others won the Nobel Prize for Economics for their efforts at alleviating global poverty on Monday. But it was a tweet from Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister and Mr Banerjee's fellow-alumnus from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, that stood o...