Top headlines: 3 win 2019 Nobel Economics Prize, IRCTC makes stellar debut

Wholesale prices based inflation eased to 0.33 per cent in September, as against 1.08 per cent in August due to fall in prices of non-food articles

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize. Loans worth Rs 81,781 crore were disbursed during the nine-day outreach programme or loan mela organised by banks that began on October 1, according to the Finance Ministry. The NCLAT has asked ED to release the attached properties of Bhushan Power and Steel and directed the agency not to attach any further assets without its permission.

In another major development, mobile phones in Kashmir buzzed back to life on Monday, connecting 40 lakh post-paid subscribers to their