Last Updated: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 22:03
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was awarded special Rabindra Smriti Puraskar by a state-level committee instituted by the West Bengal government on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 14:10
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen`s only sister Supurna Dutta has died in a private hospital here.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 8, 2011, 23:27
Binayak Sen was sentenced to life imprisonment for his alleged links with Maoists.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 17:29
Amartya Sen said that in a coalition govt, the Prime Minister is bound by certain compulsions even as his level of integrity was "exceptional".
Last Updated: Monday, December 20, 2010, 15:53
Nobel laureate and eminent economist Amartya Sen on Monday termed as "dreadful" the growing incidents of political violence across West Bengal and said there was needed to find out why it has become so dominant.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 11:52
Nobel Laureate Sen said he never intends to open any account on Facebook.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 22:21
Panjab University has decided to offer the prestigious Manmohan Singh Chair to Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen and the Mulk Raj Anand Chair to political commentator Aijaz Ahmed.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 18:51
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has stressed on the need for a firm recognition of the right to food and a comprehensive legislation to guarantee it to everybody.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 23:04
Amartya Sen on Sunday described Jyoti Basu, who breathed his last in Kolkata, as one who would be missed for his ideas and leadership and said he was concerned about neglect of industrialisation in the state.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 10:44
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen feels there is an urgent need to review the curriculum at the primary level to make home task redundant and private tuition unnecessary.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 09:13
Listening to distant voices and strengthening the participatory process will be useful in finding solution to issues like global warming, terrorism and AIDS, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 11:27
Despite the "overwhelming" need for industry in West Bengal, the manner in which the state government acquired land for the purpose was a "mistake," Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has said.
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