David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens have provided new insights about the labour market and shown what conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn from natural experiments that has spread to other fields and revolutionised empirical research,” says the Nobel Prize committee
Based in Irving, Texas, SEI operates, franchises and/or licenses more than 77,000 convenience-retailing stores in 18 countries and regions, including 16,000 in North America
Maria Ressa used freedom of expression to expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country, the Philippines, while Dmitry Muratov has for decades defended freedom of speech in Russia under increasingly challenging conditions, according tp the Nobel Prize Committee
`Abdulrazak Gurnah's dedication to truth and his aversion to simplification are striking,; the Nobel Committee for Literature said, adding, `His novels recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world’
Tata group bid more than Rs5,000 crore over the Rs12,906 crore reserve price set by the government to acquire 100 per cent shares of Air India along with its shareholding in AIXL and AISATS, but excludes Air india’s non-core assets, including land and building, valued at Rs14,718 crore
Benjamin List and David MacMillan have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for independent research leading to the development of a third type of catalysis, called asymmetric organocatalysis that builds upon small organic molecules
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 has been awarded to three scientists, with Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann jointly sharing half of the prize money "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" and the other half going to Giorgio Parisi "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales."
The groundbreaking discoveries of the TRPV1, TRPM8 and Piezo channels by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates have allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive and adapt to the world around us, says the Nobel Prize Committee
India’s merchandise imports increased by 82.36 per cent year-on-year to $275.92 billion in fiscal first half (April-September 2021-22) against an increase of 56.92 per cent increase in its exports to $197.11 billion in April-September 2020-21
Not just that, the US and its allies have taken home enough of the lesser Talibans so that liberal democrats in those countries can nurture refugee-driven unrest, to challenge and destabilise governments there
Like the socialist state withering away at its extreme, the liberals think that extreme liberalism would also help drive the state into anarchy!
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While a uniform tax rate would disable low-income and developing countries wanting to preserve or enhance their corporate tax base and mobilise revenue, the G7 is more concerned about the shift of income from intangible sources such as drug patents, software and royalties on intellectual property to these low-tax jurisdictions
Jennifer Rosner in conversation with Swetha Amit on the idea behind her book, The Yellow Bird Sings, set in the backdrop of WWII, where a Jewish mother in hiding with her children introduces them to music to soothe their frayed nerves
Imperial’s Professor Neil Ferguson says the next stage of the UK’s roadmap out of lockdown is ‘in the balance’ as variant B1.617.2 becomes dominant
Aditya Iyengar in conversation with Swetha Amit about his book ‘Bhumika.’
A new Imperial report identifies alternative materials and carbon capture technologies as critical in decarbonising the cement industry
Ajay Monga in conversation with Swetha Amit on his book-Skin Deep
The digital divide could exclude millions of the UK's poorest people, academics warned at the first event of Imperial's new 'SDG of the month' series
Author Vikrant Khanna in conversation with Swetha Amit about his latest book, The Girl Who Disappeared
Saeed Ibrahim in conversation with Swetha Amit on his book Twin Tales from Kutcch
