Washington: Amartya Sen, Indian economist and 1998 Nobel Prize winner in economics, has been felicitated with the National Medals of Arts and Humanities award by the US President Barack Obama at a glittering White House function in Washington. "We even have an economist, which we don't always get on stage," Obama said referring to 78-year-old Sen, before he presented the 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities. "Sen is...
08:27 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: US President Barack Obama will award nine scholars the 2011 National Medal for Humanities including India's Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen. Sen will be felicitated for his insights into the causes of poverty, famine, and injustice. "By applying philosophical thinking to questions of policy, he has changed how standards of living are measured and increased our understanding of how to fight hunger," said a White House statement. The...
08:52 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Kolkata: Nobel laureate and eminent economist Amartya Sen said the Lokpal Bill presented in Parliament recently was not 'well thought out'. "I personally do not think the Lokpal Bill, as it came out, is well thought out," Sen told a gathering here last night on the occasion of screening of 'Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined', a documentary on him. Sen said the challenge lay in how to integrate the democratic...
07:09 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: After honouring Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama last year, Jamia Milia Islamia will this year honour economist Amartya Sen, another Nobel Laureate, with an honorary doctorate. Sen, whose work on welfare economics, particularly on the causes of famine, won him a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, will be conferred with an honorary degree on Friday. Though the University wanted to award the doctorate to the Harvard...
09:55 AM, Dec 16, 2011
Kolkata: Amartya Sen and Partha Dasgupta received it and now Mahima Khanna is basking in its glory. The 23-year-old Kolkata girl is the third Indian recipient of the prestigious Stevenson prize for economics from Cambridge university. Mahima said, "It's an astounding feeling to have achieved one of the milestones that these people have achieved." But it wasn't an easy life for Mahima. She is a single parent child it was...
08:46 AM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: Mahima Khanna, a 23-year-old from Kolkata, has become the third Indian to win one of Cambridge University's highest honours - the Stevenson Prize. Khanna topped the 2010-11 MPhil class of economics at Cambridge. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was the first Indian to win the award in 1956. Sir Partha Dasgupta, a Cambridge professor emeritus, won it in 1967. Dasgupta was knighted by the queen for his contribution to...
12:01 PM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: Coming out in support of Binayak Sen, Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen said on Saturday that the life sentence given to the doctor-activist looks like a "miscarriage of justice". Sen also hoped that the judgement convicting Binayak, who has been awarded life term by a Chhattisgarh court for "sedition" and colluding with Maoists, will not "survive" the challenge made to the higher courts of the country. The Nobel...
03:38 PM, Jan 08, 2011
Chennai: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen Tuesday said restoring Bihar's Nalanda University - the world's oldest - was a difficult task, but progress was being made. "The university is being re-started right now, and since I happen to have the diffcult task of chairing its interim governing body, I am finding out how hard it is to re-establish a university after a 800 year hiatus," Sen said at the 98th Indian...
11:09 AM, Jan 05, 2011
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Chasing growth is "stupid" says Professor Amartya Sen. That he is obsessed with growth is "nonsense" says Professor Jagdish Bhagwati. At the time when the ...
05:21 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's advocate. At the end of the year that seems to be one of the most troubled in recent times, we look back at 2010 with the Nobel Laureate, economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Professor Sen, you've come to India at a time when country is particularly troubled by the spate of scams and scandals that have in a sense come to obsess public...
08:16 PM, Dec 26, 2010
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen said that not the Prime Minister individually, but the political system is to be blamed for corruption. ...
07:56 PM, Dec 26, 2010
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Aishwarya, Sachin Tendulkar, Manmohan Singh, Chetan Bhagat and Amartya Sen are the most influential people ...
01:12 PM, May 08, 2010
Ban homework so that the poor can do away with the liability of private tuitions. ...
06:40 PM, Dec 20, 2009
Sen says there can be reasoned agreement on unjust outcomes. ...
06:04 PM, Aug 18, 2009
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