These are just some of the headlines for the 16th of October 2007 :

Sensex touches 19K in just four sessions

Four trading sessions is all it took for the sensex (Mumbai’s stock exchange index) to go from 18,000 to 19,000 – The fastest 1,000 point run in the history of the 21-year-old index!

3 Americans share Economics Nobel

Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the Noble prize in Economic Sciences, this Monday, for their work which helps explain situations in which markets work well.

India leads in deaths during childbirth

Indian women account for the highest number of pregnancy or childbirth deaths in the world, putting the Maternal Mortality ratio for the country at 450 per 100,000 live births, the latest Maternal Mortality report has revealed.

Tiger is born

In the labour room of Hiranandani Hospital, a beautiful baby boy weighing 2.9 kgs was born to BossLady and Naveen Bachwani at 4.18 pm by way of a “normal” delivery.  He will be named Tiger.