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India’s tradition is Hindus and Muslims living, working together: Amartya Sen
Kolkata: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday said India has the tradition of Hindus and Muslims working and living together in cohesion. Sen, a noted economist, was speaking at a programme at…
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Lok Sabha poll results show India not ‘Hindu Rashtra’: Amartya Sen
Kolkata: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday asserted the recent Lok Sabha poll results point to the fact that India is not a ‘Hindu Rashtra’. Sen, who arrived in Kolkata from the…
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Annulling of electoral bonds will lead to greater transparency: Amartya Sen
Kolkata: Eminent economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court’s recent judgment annulling the electoral bonds scheme, denouncing it as a scandal. Speaking to PTI from Massachusetts, USA,…
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Amartya Sen vs Visva-Bharati: Lower court rules in favour of economist
Kolkata: Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen on Wednesday won the first round of legal battle against the Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, with a district court in West Bengal’s Birbhum dismissing the notice…
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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s family denies rumours of his demise
Kolkata: The family of Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen on Tuesday denied that economist Amartya Sen has died. Earlier, several people had posted on X that the renowned economist had died. “It…
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Uniform civil code a difficult issue: Amartya Sen
Santiniketan: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday claimed that the Uniform Civil Code is a “difficult” issue and efforts are on to make it easy. The 90-year-old economist also said the UCC…
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Intellectuals hold sit-in near Amartya Sen’s Santiniketan house for second day
Santiniketan: Intellectuals held a sit-in near the ancestral house of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen here on Saturday protesting against the notice by Visva-Bharati university to the economist to vacate 0.13 acres (5,500…
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Mamata asks ministers to start sit-in outside Amartya Sen’s house over eviction notice
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked state ministers to begin a sit-in outside Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan in Birbhum district to protest against the Visva-Bharati’s eviction…
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Amartya Sen approaches court against eviction notice from Visva-Bharati University
Kolkata: Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has approached a district court in Birbhum district of West Bengal against the eviction notice issued by the Visva-Bharati University authorities in the ongoing dispute over…
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Targeting of Amartya Sen ‘pathetic’: Cong on Visva Bharati notice to Nobel Laureate
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday accused the Modi government of “targeting” Amartya Sen after the Visva Bharati University issued an eviction order asking the Nobel laureate to vacate 13 decimals of…
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Land issue: Visva-Bharati hopeful Amartya Sen will respond to eviction notice by next week
Kolkata: Visva-Bharati is hopeful that Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, who is accused of illegally holding a 13-decimal plot owned by the university, will respond by next week to an eviction notice sent…
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Visva Bharati student gets show-cause notice for backing Amartya Sen on social media
Kolkata: Visva Bharati university authorities have issued a show-cause notice to one of its students after the latter supported Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on social media over the current row where the…
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CAA implementation to reduce role of minorities: Amartya Sen
Kolkata: Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen believes implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) could reduce the role of minorities in the country, while encouraging majoritarian forces. In an interview with PTI,…
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Role of regional parties to be important for 2024 LS polls: Amartya Sen
Kolkata: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen asserted that it “would be a mistake” to think that the 2024 Lok Sabha election would be a one-horse race in favour of the BJP, and felt…
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People being divided for political opportunism: Amartya Sen
Kolkata: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday said people of the country were being divided for “political opportunism”. Sen also lamented that the colonial practise of imprisoning people due to political reasons…
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