Esther Duflo  

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.
 

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.