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1. Princeton University's Angus Deaton has won the Nobel prize in economics for “his analysis of consumption, poverty , and welfare,“ the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on 13.10.2015.
2. Veteran Communist leader K.P Sharma Oli was sworn in as Nepal's 38th Prime Minister on 13.10.2015. 
3. 44.5% household having wastewater outlets connected to closed drainage in Urban India and 38.4% households having waste water outlets connected to closed drainage.
4. China opens huge Brahmaputra dam: A 510MW Chinese hydroelectric dam became operational on the Brahmaputra on 13.10.2015. The electricity from all units of the Zangmu Hydropower Project in Tibet, regarded as the highest in the world and just 550km from the Indian border, had been connected to China's national power grid.
5. India is the third biggest startup ecosystem in the world, after the US and UK.Israel and China follow India.
6. Booker Prize: Jamaican novelist Marlon James wove for his 686-page novel `A Brief History of Seven Killings', which on 13.10.2015 won him the Man Booker Prize.
7. India's invite to Pakistan to participate in the International Fleet Review early next year-2016, which will see over 50 countries including China take part.
8. The name of thejoint exercise of the naval forces of Japan, India and the US at the Bay of Bengal: Exercise Malabar 15.