The government's priority is to give best treatment and healthcare facilities to COVID-19 patients in Delhi and to keep the death rate as low as possible, he said

Professor Eugene F Fama said that he would not want to be part of the aviation business in a situation such as this. Aviation industry that has been battered in the wake of the pandemic is one of the most severely-impacted sectors

Dorsey seems to hold Yousafzai in high regard as in his 2015 interview with Recode, he called Malala Yousafzai the person who inspired him the most

Feluda, which claims to combine the accuracy of the PCR test with the accessibility of the antigen kits, uses the gene-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9 that had recently earned inventors Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna the Nobel Prize

The PMO said that the FAO's journey in making the vulnerable classes and masses stronger, economically and nutritionally, has been unparalleled

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to confer the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Stanford University professors Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson; The novel coronavirus survives for 28 days on banknotes, glass and other common surfaces, according to a study; In what could be termed as second round of stimulus, the government yesterday announced measures that by its own estimate would give a demand boost of Rs 1 lakh crore. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Govt's Big Billion Sale! Airports, fuel lines, assets to be sold to fill revenue gap

A video released by Stanford University has gone viral in which Wilson, 83, is ringing his 72-year-old Nobel partner's doorbell and knocking on his door in the middle of the night

Paul R Milgrom, Robert B Wilson win Nobel Prize for Economics 2020The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to confer the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Stanford University professors Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson \"for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats\".Using the auction theory, the researchers try to understand the results of different rules of bidding and final prices.Ahead of festive season, govt a...

American economists Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson have been awarded Nobel Prize 2020 in Economic Sciences for their contributions to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats

Using the auction theory, the researchers try to understand the results of different rules of bidding and final prices

The Rome-based organisation says it helps some 97 million people in about 88 countries each year and that one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat

Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'said some universities have already set up partnerships with Indian institutions, allowing students to partially study in India and complete their degrees on the main campus abroad

Nobel Prize in Literature 2020: The Swedish Academy has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature to Louise Gluck for her unmistakable poetic voice, said the official statement

Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Since Charpentier and Doudna discovered the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors in 2012, their use has exploded. This tool has contributed to many important discoveries in basic research, and plant researchers have been able to develop crops that withstand mould, pests and drought

Scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about the black hole

\"Prior to their work, the discovery of the Hepatitis A and B viruses had been critical steps forward,\" the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said in a statement on awarding the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million)

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of India's most valued firm Reliance Industries, has topped the list of richest Indians for the ninth consecutive year, with a net worth of Rs 6,58,400 crore; The government has expressed concerns that the COVID-19 outbreak might get worse during the festive season followed by the winter season; Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee on Tuesday said India is among the worst performing economies in the world and the government's economic stimulus was inadequate to tackle the problem. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Is fiscal stimulus on cards by Diwali? FM Sitharaman has this to say

Amid the economic slowdown owing to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, expectations are high about the next fiscal stimulus by the government

COVID-19 impact: Large companies maintaining digital transformation budgets, says TCSA significant number of large enterprises have either maintained their digital transformation budget or increased it even as the COVID-19 pandemic as impacted revenue of businesses globally, according to a survey by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Prior to the pandemic, the average organisation surveyed had only 9 per cent of its workforce working mostly from home. That percentage has increased seven-fold a...

Speaking at a virtual event, Banerjee said the country's economic growth was slowing down even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit as real GDP growth had moderated from 7 per cent in 2017-18 to 6.1 per cent in 2018-19 and 4.2 per cent in 2019-20