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• Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden and close rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have feuded over healthcare at the party's third debate.


• The event in Houston, Texas, was the first time the three presidential hopefuls faced off in a debate.


• Mr. Biden attacked the feasibility of Mr. Sanders' universal healthcare plan, Medicare for All, while Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders defended the measure.


• Only the 10 highest-polling Democrats in the field of 20 were on stage.

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• Huawei's chief executive has proposed selling its current 5G know-how to a Western firm as a way to address security concerns voiced by the US and others about its business.


• Ren Zhengfei said the buyer would be free to "change the software code".


• That would allow any flaws or supposed backdoors to be addressed without Huawei's involvement.


• The US and Australia have banned their networks from using Huawei's equipment. The UK is still weighing a decision.


• Huawei has repeatedly denied claims that it would help the Chinese government spy on or disrupt other countries' telecoms systems and says it is a private enterprise owned by its workers.

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• Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Saudi Arabia later this month, his third trip to the country, a media report said.


• According to a Pakistani news channel, Mr. Khan will travel to Saudi Arabia before his trip to the US to address the UN General Assembly for the first time on September 27.


• Mr. Khan has said that he would highlight the Kashmir issue in his speech after India ended Jammu and Kashmir's special status last month.

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• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied that he had lied to Queen Elizabeth II when requesting she suspend Parliament this month in the run-up to Brexit.


• Mr. Johnson asked the British head of state to shutter Parliament for five weeks from last, claiming it was necessary ahead of rolling out a new domestic agenda.

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• The war of words between the Taliban and President Donald Trump escalated as the Afghan insurgents warned that the U.S. leader had failed to grasp “what type of nation he is dealing with”.


• The latest salvo comes a day after Mr. Trump boasted during a 9/11 anniversary ceremony that American forces have “hit our enemy harder than they have ever been hit before and that will continue” just days after peace talks between the two sides collapsed.

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• Russian investigators raided dozens of regional offices of top protest leader Alexei Navalny as well as the homes of his supporters after mass Opposition rallies this summer.


• Mr. Navalny said the raids were the result of Kremlin “hysteria” after allies of President Vladimir Putin suffered major losses in local elections in Moscow.

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• A senior Indian diplomat met UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet in Geneva and conveyed India's concerns on the threat posed by cross border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.


• Secretary (East) in the External Affairs Ministry Vijay Thakur Singh also briefed Ms. Bachelet "on the steps taken towards the gradual return to normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir", MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted.


• During her meeting with the UNHR High Commissioner, Ms. Singh "conveyed India's concerns on the threat posed by cross border terrorism emanating from Pakistan", he said.


• Speaking at the 42nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Ms. Singh hit out at Pakistan's "malicious" campaign on the Kashmir issue and condemned "state-sponsored terrorism".

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• India is building supercomputers instead of procuring them from foreign countries, Department of Science and Technology Secretary Ashutosh Sharma said.


• Two computers are already functional at IIT-BHU and IIT-Kharagpur (1.6 petaflops), while the third will be assembled at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune by the end of the week.


• In an interaction with reporters in Delhi, Mr. Sharma said the project is worth Rs. 4,500 crore and it is being implemented in three phases.


• Under phase one, the initial plan was to buy three computers and build three. However the purchase was delayed, leading to an escalation in cost which prompted the DST to go for the "build" model with greater integration and focus on indigenization, a senior scientist said.

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• Amidst conflicting signals from the government over whether India will join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) this year, Australia’s lead negotiator for the 16-nation free trade agreement (FTA) says all countries have “committed” to completing talks in time for the RCEP summit on November 1.


• “What I can tell you is that in Bangkok last weekend, all ministers including India reiterated their commitment to concluding the negotiations in full by the time of the leaders summit in November,” negotiator James Baxter said, referring to an RCEP trade ministers’ meeting held in Thailand on September 8, attended by Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.

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• The fare for the Mumbai- Ahmedabad bullet train would be around Rs 3,000, an official of the National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) said.


• Of the total 1,380 hectares of land required for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor, commonly known as the bullet train project, so far 622 hectares of land, which comes to around 45 percent, has been acquired, the official said.


• “Our land requirement for this entire project is 1,380 hectares, which includes private, government, forest and railway land (in Gujarat and Maharashtra).


• So far, we have acquired 622 hectares (45 percent).

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• New look for Central Vista and building common Secretariat also on the cards, according to sources in Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry.


• By August 15, 2022, when India celebrates its 75th Independence Day, the government is planning to have a new Parliament building — either a brand new one or a redeveloped version of the existing historic building.

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• IIT Madras, in its Diamond jubilee year in 2019, has launched the Official Historical Archive and a decade-wise exhibit highlighting the Institute's history.


• The archive was launched by the IIT Madras Heritage Centre and will showcase 60 years of growth that has led to the Institute's many achievements.


• IIT Madras has added many feathers in its cap since its foundation in 1959 including getting the status of 'Institution of Eminence' status in addition to being ranked # 1 among Overall Institutions category in India Rankings 2019 released by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).

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• Phillip Zimmerman, technical development services programme manager, and Roma Khanna, tournament director, FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup that will be held in India in 2020, attended the MGCM Chava League at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Municipal School here to initiate the FIFA Football for Schools Programme in India.


• FIFA Football for Schools Programme aims to make the sport more accessible to children around the world by incorporating football activities into the physical education curriculum (or as an extracurricular pursuit), thereby contributing to the education, development, and empowerment of children.

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• Calcutta University has released the Provisional Pre-Publication status of marks for BA/B.Sc. part II (Honours/ Major) Examination, 2019.


• Students can check their marks status from the official results portal for exams conducted in West Bengal. Students would need their roll numbers to check their marks status.

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• The Army began recruitment drives for the first batch of women soldiers, who will be inducted in non-combat roles. Rallies were held in various cantonments including those in Lucknow and Shillong.


• The Army is conducting a selection test for the first batch of 100 women soldiers to be taken into the Corps of Military Police.


• Army officials said women candidates from West Bengal, Odisha and Sikkim attended the rally in Shillong which is being conducted over two days.


• Candidates from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand attended the rally in Lucknow.

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• The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) had declared the result of Constable (GD) in CAPFs, NIA, SSF and Rifleman (GD) in Assam Rifles Examination 2018 in June in which 534052 candidates (Female: 68420 and Male: 465632) were shortlisted for Physical Efficiency Test (PET)/Physical Standard Test (PST).


• However, the commission later found discrepancies in some questions and final answer keys and undertook a comprehensive review of the Question Items/ Final Answer Keys of such questions and revised the final answer keys of 13 questions.

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• Bank of Baroda (BoB) has put the erstwhile Dena Bank’s headquarters located in Mumbai’s prime business hub of Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) on sale via e-auction. It has set a reserve price of ₹530 crore for the sale.


• This move comes in the wake of Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank getting merged with BoB with effect from April 1. The e-auction is scheduled to take place on October 18. Dena Bank had moved its headquarters to BKC from Cuffe Parade in 2004.

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• Banks will be able to lend more to customers for buying consumer products such as mobile phones, home appliances, two-wheelers, and three-wheelers, with the RBI cutting the risk weight for consumer credit, including personal loans.


• While credit card receivables have been excluded, what this cut means is that banks can offer consumer loans by setting aside relatively lesser capital. The RBI has cut the risk weight to 100 per cent from 125 per cent.

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• Australia fast bowler Megan Schutt scripted history be becoming the first woman to claim two hat-tricks in white ball cricket after she cleaned up the West Indies tail in the third ODI here.


• Schutt (3/24), thus, became the first Australian women to claim a hat-trick in ODIs. Her feat enabled Australia women to bowl out West Indies women for a paltry 180.


• Later chasing 181, half centuries by opener Alyssa Healy (61) and captain Meg Lanning (58) helped Australia beat the hosts by eight wickets in the third game of the five-match series on Wednesday. The visitors have now taken an unassailable 3-0 lead.

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• Wahab Riaz, the Pakistan pacer, has taken an indefinite break from red-ball cricket to focus on the limited-overs formats.


• The left-arm pacer, who last played first-class cricket in November 2018, has conveyed his decision to the Pakistan Cricket Board while confirming that he has withdrawn from the upcoming Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, the first-class competition in Pakistan.


• "After reviewing my past couple of years' performances in red-ball cricket and the upcoming limited-overs cricket, I have decided to take time off from first-class cricket.

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• P. Hari Krishna and Nihal Sarin completed 2-0 triumphs while Vidit Gujrathi and B. Adhiban posted 1.5-0.5 victories for a place in the second round of the World Cup chess championship here.


• Vidit won and Adhiban drew the second game of Round One to set up the required margin to advance in the knockout competition.

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• Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), today, conferred Teacher's Award 2018 to 35 Teachers and Principals.


• The awards were given away by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'.


• The Union HRD Minister also launched the CBSE's portal 'Vidyadan' on Diksha App, a Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (National Forum for Teachers) and released CBSE's annual activity calendar.


• Mr. Ramesh Pokhriyal greeted all the awardees and principals and thanked them for their in nation-building through teaching.

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• The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has honored Indian Ambassador Navdeep Singh Suri with its highest civilian honor Order of Zayed II award.


• He has been given this honor for strengthening the relationship between the two countries.

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• An avid hunter and ex-soldier who knows how to handle a weapon, Vic Bencomo has a new preoccupation: tightening gun regulation in the United States, where firearms take tens of thousands of lives a year.


• The final straw came, the 45-year-old Iraq War veteran says, when he found himself having to cope with former brothers in arms dying by suicide after returning from the battlefield.


• "I'm sitting and watching the atrocities that are occurring in the United States every single day," Bencomo, who now works in computing and lives in Colorado, told AFP.

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• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed a veteran Indian Army official as the head of the world body's observer mission in Yemen's port city of Hodeidah.


• Lieutenant General (retired) Abhijit Guha has been appointed as the Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) and head of the UNMHA.


• He will succeed Lieutenant General Michael Lollesgaard, who served as RCC Chair and head of UNMHA from January 31 to July 31, the Secretary General's spokesman said in a statement.

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• China has successfully launched three satellites ( a resource satellite- ZY-1 02D and two small satellites).


• These satellites have been launched in a predetermined orbit that will help in disaster management, urban construction and monitoring of polar regions and global climate change.

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• Scientists from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) discovered 2 new species of ginger- Zingiber namely Zingiber perenense and Zingiber dimapurense from Nagaland.


• The article on Zingiber dimapurense was published in NeBIO, an International Journal of Environment and Biodiversity and the article on Zingiber perenense was published in The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal.

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• Climate change campaigner of the South Pacific, Tongan Prime Minister (PM), Akilisi Pohiva, aged 78, passed away at Auckland hospital, New Zealand after suffering complications from pneumonia and liver disease.


• Born on 7 April 1941, he was known as a champion for democracy and he was the longest-serving member of parliament of Tonga since he was first elected in 1987.