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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
TopicNobel Prize

Topic: Nobel Prize

Economics Nobel for Abhijit Banerjee celebrates asking the right questions

When policy is too often made on a whim, amid lies, or to serve ideology, a prize for people who ask for a little bit of evidence first is worth celebrating.

Esther Duflo, second woman to win Economics Nobel, says profession must respect women more

Esther Duflo shared the Nobel for Economics with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for their "experimental approach" to fighting global poverty.

Economics Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee a Modi govt critic, saw no logic in demonetisation

Abhijit Banerjee’s Nobel in Economics makes him only the second person of Indian origin after Amartya Sen to get the reputed award in this field.

Economist Abhijit Banerjee is the sixth Nobel winner with a Kolkata connection

Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo are two of three winners of the 2019 Nobel for Economics.

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee shares 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics with 2 others

Abhijit Banerjee studied at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988.

Why hasn’t an Indian got a Nobel Prize for literature in 106 years since Tagore?

Austria’s Peter Handke was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature while the postponed 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk.

Peter Handke critics outraged by Nobel committee’s decision to award ‘genocide denier’

Austrian novelist Peter Handke, who awarded this year's literature Nobel, has been controversial for his support of Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milošević.

Swedish academy announces Nobel Prize for Literature for 2018 and 2019

Poland's Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Nobel Prize while Austria’s Peter Handke won this year's Nobel for literature.

2019 Chemistry Nobel awarded for work in development of lithium-ion battery

The Chemistry Nobel was awarded to Americans John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Japanese Akira Yoshino.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.