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IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva ropes in Raghuram Rajan, 11 others to key external advisory group
• 5 years agoRaghuram Rajan, 57, who was the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor for three years until September 2016, is currently working as a professor at the prestigious University of Chicago
Huawei's US research arm Futurewei looks to separate itself in the wake of blacklist
• 6 years agoFuturewei has banned Huawei employees from its offices and moved Futurewei employees to a new IT system.
Remains of 20,000-year-old seawater dating back to Ice Age found in Indian Ocean
• 6 years agoAfter running tests the extracted water, it was found that it was much saltier than normal seawater.
Air pollution in India: Information about polluters should be made public, industries fined for exceeding emissions, say researchers
Indiaspend • 7 years agoMore than 660 million Indians live in areas that exceed the country’s standard (40 µg/m3 annual and 60 µg/m3 for 24 hours) for particulate matter (PM) 2.5, airborne particles 30 times finer than a human hair that can sicken or kill people by entering the lungs.
Raghuram Rajan says won't apply for Bank of England governor job, 'am an academic not a professional central banker'
• 7 years agoRaghuram Rajan has been mentioned by analysts as a possible future BoE governor after Mark Carney - who previously headed Canada’s central bank - steps down at the end of June 2019.
Raghuram Rajan says nobody should be branded 'anti-national' for holding debates in universities
• 7 years agoFormer RBI governor Raghuram Rajan said universities need to be "safe spaces" where debates take place and no one is shouted down after being branded an "anti-national"
Raghuram Rajan urges India to embrace technology despite fears of Artificial Intelligence taking over jobs
• 7 years agoFormer RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan expressed fears that Artificial Intelligence would take up jobs — both high skilled and unskilled
China winning war on air pollution, could raise life expectancy by over 2 years, finds US study
• 8 years agoChina appears to be "winning" its war on air pollution, making so much progress that life expectancy could rise by more than two years, according to a study.
Infosys Prize-winning chemist Dr Yamuna Krishnan on her work with DNA, and science in India
Nandita • 8 years ago'We have talented women scientists, but the numbers are not in their favour,' says Dr Yamuna Krishnan, who won the Infosys Prize in the Physical Sciences category recently
India vs Sri Lanka: Virat Kohli inhaled 3.5 times more pollutants than his cheering fans; price he paid for his double ton
Santosh Harish • 8 years agoVirat Kohli during his epic 243, was on the field for 445 minutes. During the innings, he ran 143 of his own runs, and 120 runs for his partners.