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Princeton professor Angus Deaton wins Economics Nobel
12 Oct 2015
Prof Angus Deaton has tried to correlate three central questions of how consumers distribute their spending among different goods, how much of society's income is spent and how much is saved and how best to measure and analyse welfare and poverty
LafargeHolcim hires Ron Wiradhadiraksa as chief financial officer
12 Oct 2015
LafargeHolcim today replaced chief financial officer, Thomas Aebischer with Ron Wiradhadiraksa from Philips
LafargeHolcim hires Ron Wiradhadiraksa as chief financial officer
12 Oct 2015
LafargeHolcim today replaced chief financial officer, Thomas Aebischer with Ron Wiradhadiraksa from Philips
Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, Aziz Sancar share chemistry Nobel
08 Oct 2015
The persistent changes to the genetic material does not disintegrate into complete chemical chaos as a host of molecular systems continuously monitor and repair DNA, the researchers found
Youyou Tu's herbal therapy for malaria wins Nobel for medicine
06 Oct 2015
Youyou Tu of China, who discovered `artemisinin’, a novel herbal therapy for malaria, shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology with William C Campbell and Satoshi Omura who discovered new therapies for infections caused by roundworm parasites
Youyou Tu's herbal therapy for malaria wins Nobel for medicine
06 Oct 2015
Youyou Tu of China, who discovered `artemisinin’, a novel herbal therapy for malaria, shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology with William C Campbell and Satoshi Omura who discovered new therapies for infections caused by roundworm parasites
Ralph Lauren steps down, hands reins to Stefan Larsson
01 Oct 2015
Ralph Lauren, the quintessential American designer who built a fashion empire based on sweeping fantasies of country-club prep and the Wild West, is stepping down from his post as chief executive of the company
Fortis co-founder Shivinder Singh steps down to join spiritual organisation
24 Sep 2015
Singh (40) will join a spiritual organisation, Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB), based in Beas, near Amritsar and become non-executive vice-chairman of Fortis with effect from 1 January 2016
Governor rejects Sanjay Dutt’s mercy plea
24 Sep 2015
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn quits over `Dieselgate’
24 Sep 2015
Martin Winterkorn, CEO of German carmaker Volkswagen AG, resigned on Wednesday amidst accusations that the car maker rigged US emission tests - the biggest scandal in its 78-year history
Leonardo DiCaprio joins fossil fuel divestment movement
23 Sep 2015
Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio has joined over 2,000 individuals and 400 institutions in pulling $2.6 trillion of investments out of fossil fuel companies
Cricket chief Jagmohan Dalmiya dies at 75
21 Sep 2015
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Sunday at around 9 pm. He was aged 75
Mamata says Netaji Bose didn’t die in 1945
19 Sep 2015
Some of these declassified intelligence intercepts suggest that in 1948-49 American and British intelligence agencies believed that Netaji was alive and that he played an important role in Communist uprisings in Southeast Asia
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