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• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday resumed his re-election campaign with a promise to lower taxes, but once again had to apologize for a photo showing him in blackface makeup.


• Mr. Trudeau, 47, was already under fire for an ethics lapse and other controversies, and the decades-old photos and videos that resurfaced last week of him engaging in activities he has acknowledged as "racist" dealt a fresh blow to his chances.


• After taking Mr. Trudeau traveled to Brampton on Sunday, in the central province of Ontario, where he announced two concrete measures aimed at wooing middle-class voters, the main targets of both his Liberal party and opposition Conservatives in the October 21 elections.

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• Dozens of people dressed in black went on a "funeral march" up a steep Swiss mountainside on Sunday to mark the disappearance of an Alpine glacier amid growing global alarm over climate change.
Around 250 people including children joined the solemn two-hour climb up the side of Pizol mountain in northeastern Switzerland to the foot of the rapidly melting ice formation, situated at an altitude of around 2,700 meters (8,850 feet) near the Liechtenstein and Austrian borders.

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• On Sept. 28, 1918, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Philadelphia to watch a patriotic spectacle.


• But the Liberty Loan Parade, which was to promote government bonds that would help pay for the Allied cause in World War I, had an unwelcome guest: influenza.


• Within 72 hours, area hospitals overflowed with flu patients. Within weeks, nearly 13,000 were dead. Today, historians blame the packed parade for the spread of the devastating influenza epidemic in the city.


• (Worldwide, about 500 million people were infected and at least 50 million died in the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)

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• Israel's Arab-dominated Joint List party moved to back the centre-left bloc of Benny Gantz, who is challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing alliance, to form a new government.


• With final results all but in, neither Gantz nor Netanyahu command a majority in parliament, so the Arab List's decision to end its usual policy of withholding support for any candidate in the wake of elections could nudge President Reuven Rivlin to ask Gantz to form a government.

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• Average global temperature between 2015-2019 is on track to be the hottest of any five-year period on record, a UN report by the world's leading climate agencies said.


• "It is currently estimated to be 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial (1850-1900) times and 0.2 degrees Celsius warmer than 2011-2015," said the report titled United in Science, a synthesis of key findings.

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• Iran’s President called on Western powers to leave the security of the Persian Gulf to regional nations led by Tehran, criticising a new U.S.-led coalition patrolling the region’s waterways as nationwide parades showcased the Islamic Republic’s military arsenal.


• President Hassan Rouhani separately promised to unveil a regional peace plan at this week’s upcoming high-level meetings at the United Nations, which comes amid heightened Mideast tensions following a series of attacks, including a missile-and-drone assault on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry.

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• Pro-democracy protesters clashed with riot police outside a mall on Sunday, with some activists vandalising a nearby subway station and defacing a Chinese flag, but plans to disrupt the airport did not materialise.


• Police fired brief volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets in the northern town of Sha Tin late, capping a day which saw thousands rally peacefully inside a mall before the mood soured.

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• There is still time for London and Brussels to make a Brexit deal, outgoing European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said in remarks published Sunday, as the clock runs down to a October 31 deadline.


• Mr. Juncker also told the Spanish daily El Pais that he wished the Commission had played a more active role in the 2016 British referendum to counteract “lies and fake news“.

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• The Congress is yet to officially come up with a campaign theme for the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections but it will focus on mandi aur taalabandi (showdown and shutdown) mode of the economy.


• The Congress party has identified specific industrial clusters where the slowdown has had a direct impact in terms of scaling down of businesses and job losses.

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• Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the 15-member Caribbean block in New York, the Vice-President of Suriname has voiced support for India’s actions in Kashmir.


• Speaking in response to a question, Vice-President Michael Ashwin Adhin said his country had respect for India’s Kashmir action since Suriname follows the U.N. Charter and therefore won’t interfere in the internal affairs of India.

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• In a rare move reflective of India-US friendship, the Trump administration replaced the presidential seal with an "India-US dosti flag" emblem from the presidential lectern.


• As a matter of tradition, every lectern from where a US President speaks - be it a joint press conference or an election speech or any speaking engagement either domestically or overseas - carries a presidential emblem.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to articulate his government's ambitions on renewable energy and make a call for a coalition for disaster resilient infrastructure at UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' High-Level Climate Action Summit.


• PM Modi is among the first set of speakers at the Summit's opening ceremony, a highly significant gesture given that only those Heads of State, Government and Ministers are invited to speak at the summit who will have any "positive development" to announce on climate action.

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• Voting for the bypoll to the Maoist-affected Dantewada Assembly constituency began on Monday morning amid tight security.


• The by poll was necessitated due to the death of BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi in a Naxal attack in April. Polling began at 7 am and it will go on till 3 pm, an election official said.


• A total of 1,88,263 voters, including 89,747 men and 98,876 women, are eligible to exercise their franchise in the constituency, which has 273 polling stations.

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• Registration for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) will close tomorrow (September 24).


• Candidates who wish to take the exam can fill the application form available at the GATE Online Application Processing System (GOAPS).

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• After 'certain adverse reports' relating to the system of evaluation of answer books of CA exams started doing the rounds in social media, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India or ICAI, the national body which regulates Chartered Accountants (CA)' profession in the country, released clarification regarding the reforms which have been put in place recently in organisation of the exams.


• The ICAI said all papers of CA Intermediate and Foundation level exams to be held in November 2019 and May 2020 will be put through the digital evaluation mode.

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• The National Fire Service College, Nagpur will conduct the 43rd All India Entrance Exam for Sub Officers Course.


• The duration of the Sub Officers Course is 33 weeks out of which 21 weeks will be conducted at any of the Regional Training Centre and 12 weeks practical attachment at major fire services in the country.


• The exam will be held on October 13.


• The exam will comprise questions from General Knowledge, General English, Science, and Mathematics. The question paper will be printed bilingually (Hindi & English) except for General English.


• The question paper will be objective type and will consist of questions from Science and Mathematics also.

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• The Sikh community here in collaboration with the National University of Singapore launched an academic programme in Sikh studies to commemorate the 550th birth anniversary of the faith's founder Guru Nanak Dev.


• The academic program is the first Asian visiting professorship in Sikh studies outside India and will enable National University of Singapore (NUS) to attract leading scholars who have demonstrated excellence in the study of Sikh philosophy, history, art, culture and the wider Punjabi diaspora globally.

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• Private sector lender HDFC Bank said it plans to organise 1,000 Grameen Loan Melas over the next six months.


• The Grameen Loan Melas or village loan fairs will be held across more than 300 districts and cover around 6,000 villages across India and will be a one-stop-shop for people from five to six nearby villages.

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• State Bank of India (SBI) has decided to adopt repo rate as the external benchmark for all floating rate loans for MSME, housing and retail loans.


• This dispensation will come into effect from October 1, 2019.


• SBI has now voluntarily extended the external benchmark based lending to medium enterprises also, to boost lending to the MSME sector as a whole.

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• The Centre is exploring the possibility of bringing certain financial service providers within the ambit of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) to help deal with exceptional cases and make them go through their insolvency and liquidation proceedings, a top government official said.


• “We are in consultation with the regulators (RBI) to see if a separate special framework could be worked out to bring specified financial service providers under IBC.

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• Sebastian Vettel ended a 13-month win drought by leading a Ferrari one-two victory at the Singapore Grand Prix, while Lewis Hamilton finished fourth but stretched his championship lead to 65 points.


• The German, whose last victory was in Belgium in August 2018, took the chequered flag 2.641 seconds ahead of unhappy Monegasque team mate Charles Leclerc.

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• An insipid batting display saw India sink to a resounding nine-wicket defeat in the third and final T20 international here.


• Some questionable shot-making saw Virat Kohli’s men scramble together a modest 134 in 20 overs after winning the toss at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.


• Quinton de Kock then went on the rampage, smashing an unbeaten 79, as South Africa raced home with 19 balls to spare to level the series.

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• Team India opener Rohit Sharma has equalled former India captain MS Dhoni's record for playing the most number of T20I matches for India.


• The third T20I against South Africa today is Rohit's 98th T20I match. Dhoni has featured in 98 T20Is, scoring 1,617 runs. Dhoni and Rohit are followed by Suresh Raina, who has played 78 T20I matches.

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• Shondol dance, which is known as the royal dance of Ladakh, has created history by entering into the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest Ladakhi dance. Shondol is a famous dance, which artistes used to perform for the king of Ladakh.


• The event was held on the concluding day of the ongoing Buddhist carnival Naropa festival near the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh.


• As many as 408 women attired in traditional dresses and beautiful headgears performed the dance, which broke the previous record of 299 artists dance of Shondol in the 2018 festival.

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• "Game of Thrones" ended its eight-season run with a big win at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, which were held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.


• The HBO series, based off of the works of George R.R. Martin, earned the Emmy for outstanding drama series.


• Though it led the pack, with 32 nominations, the night was full of surprises and one-of-a-kind moments, including incredible entrances and outfits on the purple carpet.

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• Senior journalist and Ramon Magsaysay awardee Ravish Kumar received the first Gauri Lankesh Memorial Award in Bengaluru.


• He was chosen for the award for sharp news analysis and uncompromising secular stance by the Gauri Lankesh Memorial Trust, founded in memory of the journalist.

• Outstanding Drama Series - Game of Thrones


• Outstanding Comedy Series - Fleabag


• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series - Killing Eve


• Directing for a Drama Series - Jason Bateman (Ozark)


• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Billy Porter (Pose)


• Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series - Julia Garner (Ozark)


• Writing for a Drama Series - Jesse Armstrong (Succession)


• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones"


• Variety Talk Series - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver


• Director for a Variety Series - Don Roy King, "Saturday Night Live


• Variety Sketch Series - Saturday Night Live


• Writing for a Variety Series - Last Week Tonight With John Oliver


• Outstanding Limited Series - Chernobyl


• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie - Michelle Williams, "Fosse/Verdon"


• Outstanding Television Movie - "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch"


• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie - Jharrel Jerome, "When They See Us"


• Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or Drama - Craig Mazin, "Chernobyl"


• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie - Ben Whishaw, "A Very English Scandal"


• Directing for a Limited Series - Johan Renck, "Chernobyl"


• Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie - Patricia Arquette, "The Act"


• Competition Program - "RuPaul's Drag Race"


• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag"


• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series - Bill Hader, "Barry"


• Director for a Comedy Series - Harry Bradbeer, "Fleabag"


• Writing for a Comedy Series - Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag"


• Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Alex Borstein, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"


• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Tony Shalhoub, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

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• The Reserve Bank of India has approved the re-appointment of Shyam Srinivasan as the Managing Director and CEO of Federal Bank for another year, giving him a full decade as the head of the private sector lender.


• His re-appointment is with effect from September 23 this year until September 22, 2020, the bank said in a regulatory filing.

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• Actor Govinda will be the brand ambassador of Madhya Pradesh and will help promote the state’s traditions and tourist places.


• MP Govt. planning to set up a film city as several productions units are visiting places like Maheshwar, Mandu, and Bhopal to shoot movies.