Nobel laureate also underscored the need to curtail curriculum once the classes resume at the junior level and help children make up for the lost time.
"We have started our organisational activities in Goa," Mamata's nephew Abhishek Banerjee said in a rally held finally after repeated postponements as the Tripura Police withheld permissions due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Abhijit Banerjee said that boosting the state's economy is directly related to the revival of the country's economy as it is under stress due to the ongoing pandemic situation.
Banerjee, who heads West Bengal's Global Advisory Board (GAB) and advises the state government on issues related to the pandemic, said that boosting the state’s economy is directly related to the revival of the country's economy as it is under stress due to the ongoing pandemic situation.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced on September 24 the ₹ 50,000 grant for each of the 36,946 community Durga Puja committees in the state in COVID-19 time.
Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee feels that he wouldn't have won the nobel prize if he was living in India. The 58-year-old India-born American economist was speaking at a session at Jaipur Literature Festival when he was asked if he could have won the Nobel based in India.
Talking about the economic slowdown in India, Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee said that it was important that there were no more cuts in corporate taxes.
Indian-American economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo and colleague Michael Kremer, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics earlier in October, received their awards at Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden on Tuesday.
I-League side Mohun Bagan conferred their life membership to Nobel laureate Abhijit Mukherjee at his residence.
Addressing the media, Banerjee said, "PM Modi started by cracking a joke on how the media is trying to trap me to say anti-Modi things. He has been watching the TV and he's been watching you guys. And he knows what you're trying to do."
In a rare honour, the Presidency University on Thursday decided to emboss facsimiles of the faces of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Amartya Sen - the two Nobel laureates in its list of distinguished alumni - on its wall.
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 Benerjee's remarks that the Indian economy is "doing very badly".
Sourav Ganguly, who is set to take over as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said Abhijit Banerjee's feat was a much bigger achievement.
The Indian Cricket Board president-elect Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said the achievement of Nobel prize winner and fellow Bangali Abhijit Banerjee was much bigger than his.
When "the economy going into a tailspin is the time when you don't worry so much about monetary stability and you worry a little more about demand, the demand is a huge problem right now in the economy," he said at a news conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge on Monday after his prize was announced.
Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics along with two others. He will share the award with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard professor Michael Kremer for their work which has "dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice." Here are 7 things to know about Abhijit Banerjee.
Abhijit Banerjee, the Indian-American economist has been awarded Nobel prize for economics. Along with Abhijit Banerjee the Nobel has been awarded to Esther Duflo and Micheal Kremer.
The Nobel Economics Prize 2019 has been awarded to husband-wife duo Abhijit Banerjee-Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. The prize is given for creating an experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. They share the prestigious award with American development economist Michael Kremer. Let us know their journey behind winning Nobel Prize in Economics 2019.
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
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