If prices had been kept exactly to the inflation rate then a Â£1,000 season ticket in 2004 should have cost Â£1,342 in 2013. Instead, the average increase in rail fares means it would now cost Â£1,515. Other examples of increases set to the RPI include the interest on repayments of student loans.
Who was the first asian to win nobel prize? Discuss Who was the first asian to win nobel prize? within the General Knowledge (GK) forums, part of the Preparation Resource for Entrance Exams category; Rabindranath Tagore ( first Indian, as well as first asian) for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913. Advertisements...
As soon as Amartya Sen won the Nobel prize in 1998 for Economic sciences 10.4 lakh Bengalis delirious with joy had taken out a rally on the streets of Calcutta, dancing for hours. Amartya Sen first caught the white man's eye when he did a Rudyard Kipling-- that the brown man of Asia is the European white man's burden.