Visva-Bharati gives 2 options to Amartya Sen to settle land issue

Amid the exchange of words between Visva-Bharati and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen over the economist's alleged unauthorised possession of land, the university on Sunday asked the economist either to......

3 share Physics Nobel for short pulses of light to study electrons

Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of......

Mamata visits Abhijit Banerjee's mother after Nobel win

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday paid a visit to Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee's house in South Kolkata and congratulated his mother on her son's success and said the state......

Nobel Laureate Yunus with Supriya Sule

"It is time to redesign the laws governing financial services in India, so that they allow the poor to access financial services," Nobel Laureate from Bangladesh and MD, Grameen Bank, Mohammad......

Why Yunus likes to be known as promoter of 'social business'

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus was in India recently to promote the concept of social business and to discuss ways to tackle social problems ranging from poverty to poor healthcare.......

Yuan can be an alternative to US dollar: ADB

The Chinese yuan has the potential to be an alternative to the US dollar and help create a multi-currency global reserve system, says an Asian Development Bank report. A joint report by the ADB......

India has enough food stocks to fight shortage: PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said that the country has ample foodgrain stocks to face any shortage arising out of inadequate monsoons and that there was no need to worry on that......

Yunus wants govt out of micro-finance

Any initiative backed by a political institution and intention, would not achieve the desired result of serving the common man. The pre-condition of success is its management by a private entity......

Simran to quit films?

Simran's fans were in for a shock on April 24 as Tamil newspapers frontpaged a news report claimingthat she wasquitting films to getmarried to a pilot from Mumbai.The rumours began when she......

Will Smith be able to sleep peacefully?

‘I asked him (His Holiness) a question about sleep and how he could help me and he gave me his blessings’ IMAGE: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama meets Australian cricket team......