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Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win 2019 Nobel Economics Prize

8:16 pm October 14, 2019

Stockholm: Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” “The research conducted by this year’s Laureates has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which […]

Hungary opposition wins Budapest in blow for PM Orban: partial results

10:57 am October 14, 2019

Budapest: Hungary’s opposition scored a shock win in the Budapest mayoralty election Sunday, the first electoral blow for nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban since he came to power in 2010. With around 89 per cent of votes counted, centre-left challenger Gergely Karacsony led by around 50 per cent of the vote ahead of the incumbent […]

Muraleedharan calls on Pope Francis

11:54 pm October 13, 2019

Vatican City: Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan on Sunday called on Pope Francis and presented him Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi’ and caparisoned elephant of Kerala temple festivals, reflecting India’s age-old traditions. Muraleedharan, who led the Indian delegation at a ceremony in the Vatican City in which the Pope declared Indian nun […]

Britain’s Johnson plays down Brexit breakthrough hopes

11:44 pm October 13, 2019

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson played down hopes Sunday of a breakthrough in his last-ditch bid to strike an amicable divorce deal with the European Union. Negotiators went behind closed doors for intensive talks in Brussels after Johnson outlined a new set of proposals to Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Thursday. They have […]

Dutch Royals leave for their country after 5 day India visit

Dutch King, Queen to visit Kerala on Oct 17, 18

7:25 pm October 13, 2019

Kochi: King of The Netherlands Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will arrive here on October 17 on a two-day visit, official sources said. The Dutch Royals, who will be in the country on a five-day visit from Sunday, would arrive at the international airport here from Mumbai by a special flight at 1 p.m on October […]