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• After MPs rejected Prime Minister Boris Johnson's second bid to call an early election to solve the Brexit impasse, he is left in limbo heading towards a crucial EU summit next month, just days before Britain's scheduled exit.


• Britain will leave the European Union on October 31 unless it asks the bloc to delay, and the leaders of the other 27 member states agree.

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• US President Donald Trump nominated an Indian-American as a federal judge in Florida. Anuraag Singhal is among the 17 judiciary nomination sent by the White House to the Senate. If confirmed by the Senate, the Indian-American would replace James I. Cohn as the United States district judge for the southern district of Florida.


• Mr. Singhal is the first Indian-American to be nominated for this position in Florida. His confirmation hearing by the senate judiciary committee is scheduled.

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• Dorian may have blown out to sea, but the US weather service now finds itself buffeted by strong political winds, with senior government meteorologists in open rebellion against Donald Trump.


• It all started on September 1, when the president tweeted that states including Alabama "will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated" a few days after the fierce Atlantic storm became a hurricane.


• Exactly 20 minutes later, the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama tweeted directly contradicting the president: "Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama."

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• North Korea fired projectiles toward the sea, South Korea's military said, hours after Pyongyang said it is willing to hold working-level talks with the United States in late September.


• Negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington have been gridlocked since a second summit between the North's leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in February ended without a deal.


• North Korea twice launched "unidentified projectiles" in an easterly direction from South Pyongan province, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

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• Britain's parliament began a controversial five-week suspension during a ceremony marred by a protest in which opposition MPs held up signs reading "SILENCED" and shouted "Shame on you!".


• House of Commons Speaker John Bercow condemned the move as "an act of executive fiat" and one of the protesting MPs was seen trying to stop him leaving the chamber to take part in the ceremony, which suspends parliament until October 14.

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• Prime Minister Narendera Modi has raised by 10% the amount of degraded land India has agreed to rehabilitate by 2030.


• “I would like to announce that India would raise its ambition of the total area that would be restored from its land degradation status, from 21 million hectares to 26 million hectares between now and 2030,” he said as the keynote speaker during the high-level ministerial segment at the ongoing United Nation Conference of Parties summit on land degradation.


• On August 27, Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar, during a prelude to the UN summit, had said that India would restore “5 million hectares” between 2021 and 2030.

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• The Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the Union Home Ministry has decided to reopen investigations in seven anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984 in which trial had been completed and cases closed as the accused were discharged.


• In April, the Ministry expanded the ambit of the SIT to reinvestigate or further investigate cases in which the accused were discharged or acquitted.


• The seven anti-Sikh riot cases were registered in 1984 at the police stations in Vasant Vihar, Sun Light Colony, Kalyanpuri, Parliament Street, Connaught Place, Patel Nagar, and Shahdara.

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• The Election Commission met representatives of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Trinamool Congress and Communist Party of India hearing their arguments on why their status as national parties should not be revoked.


• All the three parties have argued that they should not be de-recognised only on the basis of the recent electoral performances.


• The Commission said the hearing was only a partial one and the parties will be called back again for deliberations.

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• Eight Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, who were involved in threatening and intimidation of locals, were arrested in south Kashmir's Sopore.


• The arrest comes two days after four people, including a two-year-old girl, were injured after terrorists attacked house of a fruit trader in Sopore.


• Saturday's attack is seen as an attempt by terrorists to instill fear among the people and disrupt peace in the Kashmir Valley.

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• Himachal Pradesh has witnessed five earthquakes in the Chamba district during the past 24 hours, Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) informed.


• Speaking to ANI, IMD Director Manmohan Singh said, “The first earthquake was recorded on the borders of the district while the second was recorded on the same day around midnight.”

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• Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will present the full-fledged Budget for the financial year 2019-20 in the Assembly.


• Though T Harish Rao has assumed charge as the Finance Minister on Sunday, the Chief Minister himself will present the Budget in the Assembly. Harish Rao will present the Budget in the Legislative Council.

• Total Budget Outlay is Rs 1.42 lakh crore


• Public Debt: 32,900 crore


• Public Debt Repayment: 9,265.77 crore


• Revenue Recepits: 1,13,099.92 crore


• Capital expenditure - Rs 17,274.67 crore.


• Budget Estimates Surplus - Rs 2,044.08 crores.


• Financial Deficit - Rs.24,081.74 crore.


• Revenue Expenditure: 1,11,055.84 crore


• Loans and Advances: 8,896.02 crore


• Other Non-Tax Revenue: 23,934 crore


• Share of Central Taxes: 19,718 crore


• Rs 12,000 crore for Rythu Bandhu


• Rs 1137 crore for Rythu Bhima


• Rs 6000 crore for Farm loan waiver


• Rs 9,402 crore for Aasara pensions


• Rs 2,714 crore for Gram Panchayats.


• Rs 1,764 crore for Municipalities

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• All India Management Association (AIMA) will release admit card for MAT September 2019 exam soon. As per the official website for AIMA MAT, the registration for Computer-Based Test (CBT) for September MAT exam will conclude and the admit cards for the exam will be uploaded on the website as well.


• The MAT September 2019 admit cards are expected to release at 11:00 am.


• AIMA has extended application date for both Computer-Based Test (CBT) and Paper-Based Test (PBT).

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• Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda said here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would launch Eklavya schools exclusively for the tribal students of the country on September 12.


• "The central government has given the approval to set up 462 Eklavya residential school s on the lines of Navodaya schools.


• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Eklavya residential school on September 12. The residential school will have 450 tribal students from class six to twelve. Around Rs. 10,000 crore will be spent.

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• Former Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist accompanied a delegation of University of Wollongong to the Delhi University.


• The delegation from UOW, Australia was led by its vice-chancellor Professor Paul Wellings.


• They discussed future collaboration between UOW and DU in specific areas of Market, Business Studies, Science and Technology, and Law.


• Gilchrist addressed the students of the varsity who had got admission on the basis of their excellence in cricket and other sports.


• The meeting ended with the mutual resolve to strengthen the academic ties and research between the two universities.

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• Bank of India committee has recommended the setting up of an intermediary to specifically promote mortgage securitisation, reducing the minimum holding period, and a separate investment limit of 5 per cent in provident fund and insurance investment guidelines, among others.


• The committee, headed by Harsh Vardhan, Senior Advisor, Bain & Co, said that a government-sponsored intermediary, through the National Housing Bank (NHB), will enable market-making and standards-setting.


• It suggested developing standards for loan origination, loan servicing, loan documentation, and loans to be eligible for securitisation, including standardised formats for data collection and aggregation.

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• Union Bank of India said its board of directors has approved merger of Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank with itself and given nod for a capital infusion of Rs 17,200 crore in the current financial year.


• The decision was taken at the meeting of the board of directors held, the bank said in a regulatory filing.


• The board “considered and given its in-principle approval for the amalgamation of Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank into Union Bank.

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• Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) has cut its marginal cost of funds-based lending rates (MCLR) by up to 25 basis points across tenors. With this move, the overnight MCLR has come down to 7.90 per cent from 8.15 per cent now.


• One-year MCLR has now come down to 8.40 per cent from 8.55 per cent. One-month MCLR is now 8 per cent (8.20 per cent); three-month MCLR is 8.15 per cent (8.35 per cent); and six-month MCLR is 8.30 per cent (8.45 per cent).


• The revised rates will be applicable from Tuesday, an OBC statement said.

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• The strongest Indian presence, though without two-time champion Viswanathan Anand, promises some exciting times when the World Cup chess championship opens in Khanty Mansiysk.


• For the first time, the field of 128 players includes 10 Indians in an event that offers a prize fund of $1,600,00. Only Russia (28) has more participants.

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• Croatia missed a chance to go three points clear at the top of Euro 2020 qualifying Group E after a stunning goal by halftime substitute Tamkin Khalilzade earned Azerbaijan a 1-1 home draw with the 2018 World Cup runners-up.


• The result provisionally left Croatia in pole position on 10 points from five games, one ahead of second-placed Hungary who has played four and we're at home to Slovakia later.

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• Odia poet Pradeep Dash was selected for the 40th edition of 2019 Sarala Puraskar award for his poetry work Charu Chibar O Charjya.


• The award which is the foremost literary honour in Odisha, comprises of a citation with a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and will be presented on October 26, 2019 by governor of Odisha Shri Ganeshi Lal.

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• American multinational technology company Microsoft has appointed Rajiv Kumar as the new Managing Director(MD) of Microsoft India Research & Development(R&D) Private Ltd (MIRPL).


• Kumar, who is currently the company’s Experiences and Devices (E+D) group, succeeds Anil Bhansali and will be relocating to Redmond, United States(US).

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• Mumbai stalwart Amol Muzumdar was appointed batting coach of the visiting South African team for the Test series against India beginning October 2.


• The 44-year-old, who made 11167 first-class runs at an average of 48.13 but never got to play for India, confirmed the appointment.

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• Chandrayaan 2 lander Vikram has been located on the moon's surface by the lunar orbiter, ISRO confirmed this morning in a message posted on its official Twitter account, adding that "all possible efforts were being made to re-establish contact".


• The confirmation comes after ISRO chief K Sivan was quoted by news agency ANI as admitting that Vikram had made a "hard landing" and saying that the orbiter had managed to take thermal images of the lander.

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• Book titled ‘Fortune Turners: The Quartet that spun India to glory’ on spin quartet written by Aditya Bhushan and Sachin Bajaj was launched in New Delhi. It is published by Global Cricket School.


• It reveals the careers of the famous four spinners of Indian cricket team- Bishan Singh Bedi, Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwat Chandrashekhar and S. Venkataraghavan, who dominated Indian bowling in the 1960s-70s and were instrumental in some of the team’s famous victories of the time.

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• Senior journalist Dilip Satpathy, aged 56, from Cuttack, Odisha passed away. The bone marrow cancer had relapced him 3 years ago.


• He started his career as a reporter in a city-based English daily and become the Resident Editor of the Bhubaneswar edition of Business Standard.