Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were awarded the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for their approach to alleviate global poverty. Fifty-eight-year-old Banerjee was born in 1961. He studied in Calcutta University’s Presidency College and Jawaharlal Nehru University and then did a PhD from Harvard
Year: 2019
1992: India: 0% China: 0% U.S: 1.7% 1999: India: 0.3% China: 0.7% U.S: 35.8% 2006: India: 2.8% China: 10.5% U.S: 68.9% 2017: India: 34.4% China: 54.3% U.S: 87.3% via : World Bank.
GoAir to launch daily flights to and from Guwahati-Aizawl, from October 15. Flight will depart from Guwahati at 06:50 am and arrive in Aizawl at 07:50 am. Return flight will depart from Aizawl at 08:40 am and arrive in Guwahati at 09:50 pm. Price of Rs. 2498 for return fares.
Kaziranga National Park been opened for tourists. Due to devastating floods, opening got delayed. Only jeep safari been opened for some areas of Bagori and Kohora Range. Elephant safari has to wait, as many areas of Kaziranaga National Park have been damaged by the flood waters.
15 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were nabbed in Digboi Assam from a night service bus by Asom Jatiyotabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad. A middleman Sultan had brought them to work at an illegal coal mine in Jagun, Margherita and Arunachal Pradesh.