Abhijit Banerjee  

 As 2019 draws to an end, let's meet the heroes who made headlines this year. These five Indians have made a mark for themselves in 2019.

In a tweet, the Nobel Prize committee shared a small video of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who turned up in a dhoti and saree respectively, and Michael Kremer receiving the award at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
 

From Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee meeting PM Modi and lauding him for unique style of work to Rajnath Singh speaking on the strength of the Indian armed forces, watch MyNation in 100 seconds
 

Nobel prize winner Abhishek Banerjee met PM Modi today for the first time after winning the award 

A recent thread of Tweets went viral after the incident of Pakistan’s first Nobel Laureate in Physics Dr. Abdus Salam dedicating his prize to his Indian mathematics professor Anilendranath Gangopadhyay was remembered, in the wake of Abhijit Banerjee’s accomplishment. Here’s the story of a teacher extraordinaire and his Nobel winning student.

On October 14, a tsunami of congratulatory messages poured in for Nobel Economics Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee, leaving us to wonder if India erupted with similar enthusiasm when Madurai's Iron Lady received the Padma Shri earlier this year for reducing poverty in Tamil Nadu villages?

While PM Narendra Modi congratulated Nobel prize winner Abhijit Banerjee handsomely, former AICC president Rahul Gandhi chose to belittle Narendra Modi in his congratulatory message, only exposing his mediocre position.  

Indian American Abhijit Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Economic Prize alongside his wife Esther Duflow and Harvard’s Michael Kermer. Banerjee was asked about the Indian economy to which he replied that it was doing badly. However, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar took to Twitter to point out reality that the poor have been oppressed for 70 years and are only now seeing the light of day.

One of the biggest hurdles in fighting terrorism is the lack of one central counter-terrorism agency, said National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval. He was speaking at the two-day NIA's national conference of chiefs of Anti-Terrorism Squad and Special Task Force (STF) on Monday. Mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir has resumed from the afternoon of October 14.  All this and more on MyNation in 100 seconds.
 

Born in India, but currently holding American citizenship, Abhijit Banerjee has won the Nobel Prize for economics. Here are 10 facts about the Nobel laureate, who has made India proud.  

Sam Pitroda, veteran Congress leader and Rahul Gandhi’s advisor in an interview with a news channel said that the middle class will have to bear the cost of the NYAY scheme