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US dollar rises against British pound
October 15, 2019
US dollar rises against British pound
New York– The US dollar rose against the British pound as investors closely monitored Brexit development. Analysts said the British…
Update: MIT’s Abhijit Banerjee and Wife Esther Duflo win Nobel Prize in Economics
October 14, 2019
Update: MIT’s Abhijit Banerjee and Wife Esther Duflo win Nobel Prize in Economics
By Peter Dizikes MIT News Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, MIT economists whose work has helped transform antipoverty research and…
Demand is reducing drastically in India, big fight on data integrity not helping
October 14, 2019
Demand is reducing drastically in India, big fight on data integrity not helping
Boston– Fifty-eight-year old Indian American Abhijit Banerjee is the toast of MIT Sloan and India by becoming the sixth Kolkatan to…
Indian economy in ‘tailspin’ warns Nobel laureate Banerjee
October 14, 2019
Indian economy in ‘tailspin’ warns Nobel laureate Banerjee
BY ARUL LOUIS New York– The newly-minted economics Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has warned that the Indian economy is going into…
Nobel winner feels no grand theory can explain underdevelopment: Economists
October 14, 2019
Nobel winner feels no grand theory can explain underdevelopment: Economists
BY SIRSHENDU PANTH Kolkata–Successful micro-level field experiments like the one that established a connect between barefoot children, whooping cough and…
MIT’s Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo Win Nobel Prize in Economics
October 14, 2019
MIT’s Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo Win Nobel Prize in Economics
By MIT News Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, innovative MIT economists whose antipoverty research has given new prominence to the…
MIT alumna Priyanka Bakaya addresses the world’s mounting plastic waste problem
October 13, 2019
MIT alumna Priyanka Bakaya addresses the world’s mounting plastic waste problem
Zach Winn/MIT News Office It’s been nearly 10 years since Priyanka Bakaya founded Renewlogy to develop a system that converts…
US announces sanctions on Gupta brothers of South Africa
October 10, 2019
US announces sanctions on Gupta brothers of South Africa
Washington–The US Department of Treasury on Thursday announced it had imposed sanctions on the high-profile Gupta brothers – Ajay, Atul…
Ex-Ranbaxy promoters Malvinder, Shivinder Singh arrested in a Rs 740 crore fraud case
October 10, 2019
Ex-Ranbaxy promoters Malvinder, Shivinder Singh arrested in a Rs 740 crore fraud case
New Delhi–Former promoters of pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy, Shivinder Singh and his elder brother Malvinder Singh, have been arrested in a…
Nandan Padukone-Led IM Therapeutics Raises $10 Million Financing
October 10, 2019
Nandan Padukone-Led IM Therapeutics Raises $10 Million Financing
BOSTON–ImmunoMolecular Therapeutics, a clinical stage company developing personalized therapies for autoimmune disease, announced that it has raised $10 million in…