Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation ...

The university last held its convocation on January 27, 2000, at Nazrul Mancha months before the onset of the pandemic. That day, Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was awarded an honorary DLitt ...

The core of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s new book, Poor Economics, can be summed up by a single sentence in the foreword: “[W]e have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon ...

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Kolkata rape and murder: The agency said Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mondol had been in touch with each other after the crime surfaced. The CBI told a court in Sealdah that there could be a bigger ...

Atri Banerjee has channeled his own experiences into a new production of John Osborne’s groundbreaking 1956 work “Look Back in Anger.” By Roslyn Sulcas Reporting from London The night before ...

"Ajit Vinayak Gupte [IFS: 1991], presently Ambassador of India to Egypt, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany. He is expected to take up the ...

Junior doctors protesting in Kolkata over the rape-murder of a 31-year-old doctor have given an affirmative response to the Mamata Banerjee ... of Tala police station, Abhijit Mondal, has been ...