• Winners of 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom

• India’s first centre for international arbitration was launched by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in
Mumbai

• Sports personality appointed as the Brand Ambassador of Vizag Steel recently
P V Sindhu

• Person who won the 24th Ekalabya Award for the year 2016
Srabani Nanda

• Person appointed as China's Ambassador to India recently
Luo Zhaohui

• The winner of the 2016 China Open Women's Singles title is
Agnieszka Radwanska

• A new termite species named Glyptotermes Chiraharitae was recently discovered at
Kerala

• NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently detected Great Balls of Fire near
V Hydrae

• She clinched the women's singles of the Russian Open Grand Prix at Vladivostok
Ruthvika Shivani Gadde

• They clinched the mixed doubles titles of the Russian Open Grand Prix at Vladivostok
N Sikki Reddy and Pranaav Chopra

• The winner of the 2016 China Open Men's Singles title is
Andy Murray

• The theme for the 2016 International Day of the Girl Child is
Girls' Progress = Goals' Progress: What Counts for Girls 

• Supreme Court in its decision held that a Hindu son can divorce his wife if she tries to separate him from his elderly parents as
It is 'pious obligation' of a son to maintain his parents


• Russia on 8 October 2016 vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution demanding an end to the bombing of
Aleppo city in Syria