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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen not receiving West Bengal's highest civilian award Banga Bibhushan

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen not receiving West Bengal's highest civilian award Banga Bibhushan

Jul 25, 2022, at 05:54 am

There are reports that Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will not receive the West Bengal government's highest civilian award, the Banga Bibhushan Samman, scheduled to be conferred on Monday. Speculation is rife over the news since it broke amid a political hullabaloo and call for award boycott by a prominent Left leader over the recovery of a huge amount of money from a female aide of West Bengal Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee and his subsequent arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in the teachers' recruitment scam.