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• U.S. Secretary of State ordered to turn over documents related to the President's alleged efforts to enlist the Ukraine government’s help in his campaign for reelection.


• Democrats charged aggressively into an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, ordering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to turn over Ukraine-related documents and scheduling testimony for witnesses to alleged abuse of power by the U.S. leader.

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• The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email, reviving a politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election, current and former officials said.


• As many as 130 officials have been contacted in recent weeks by State Department investigators - a list that includes senior officials who reported directly to Clinton, as well as others in lower-level jobs whose emails were at some point relayed to her inbox, said current and former State Department officials.

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• Ukraine must investigate the activities of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden's son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country's laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine's former prime minister, said in an interview.


• Azarov did not specify to which Ukrainian laws he was referring.

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• Austrians vote in a snap parliamentary election that conservative leader Sebastian Kurz looks set to win, but he will still need a coalition partner to secure a majority and it remains unclear whom he will pick.


• The election follows the collapse in May of Kurz's coalition with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after a video sting scandal that forced FPO Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache to step down.

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• Tight security ensured Afghanistan's presidential election was held in relative calm, though several small attacks, low turnout and complaints about the voting system heightened fears an unclear result could drive the country into further chaos.


• Preliminary results are not expected before October 17 and final results not until November 7. If no candidate gets 51% of the vote, a second-round will be held between the two leading candidates.

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• Termination of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir and the bifurcation of the territory has put the people of the region under great political stress and opened chances of international intervention, declared a civil society meeting on Kashmir held here.


• “Fifty-five days since the siege began, especially in Kashmir valley but also in Jammu, repressive measures are still in place.

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• The police have recorded at least 15 late night protests and eight daytime incidents of stone pelting in the past 24 hours in Srinagar, indicating a sudden worsening of the law and order in the wake of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech at the United Nations.


• Scores of youth took to the streets in at least 15 locations across Srinagar, immediately after Mr. Khan concluded his speech.


• They clashed with security forces and raised slogans. The forces used tear smoke shells to break up the protests in Batapora, Lal Bazar, Soura, Chanapora, Bagh-e-Mehtab and parts of the old city.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted by the sights, sounds and dresses of a “Mini India” as part of a grand welcome ceremony organised by the State unit of the JP here.


• Party workers in the thousands, mobilized from across the Capital and showcasing the cultural heritage of their respective States, began assembling at the Palam airport technical area hours in advance of his arrival.

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• In a strong rebuttal to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), India said Mr. Khan had engaged in “hate speech”.


• “Unfortunately, what we heard today from Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan was a callous portrayal of the world in binary terms, ‘us’ versus ‘them’, rich versus poor, North versus South, developed versus developing, Muslims versus others,” First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Vidisha Maitra said.

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• "Student entrepreneurs should be allowed to sit for the examination, even if their attendance is less than the minimum permissible percentage, with due permission from the institute," as per the new innovation and startup policy released by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD).


• The MHRD's Innovation Cell or the MIC recently released the "National Innovation and Startup Policy 2019 for Students and Faculty."


• It has also directed the institutes to allow their students to take a semester or year break to work on their startups. "Student entrepreneurs may earn academic credits for their efforts while creating an enterprise.

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• Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' on Friday launched a common admission portal for IITs and IISc for international applicants interested in pursuing postgraduate studies


• With this, international students can now apply for admission to 600 Masters and PhD degree programmes in science and engineering at the IITs and the IISc through a single portal.


• The option to apply through this portal will be made available to students from July 2020.

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• The Panjab University's Urdu Department has objected to its proposed merger with those of various foreign tongues, asserting that Urdu is not a foreign language but an Indian one like Hindi and Punjabi.


• The university has recently proposed making Urdu Department the part of School of Foreign Languages to be set up after merging departments of Russian, French, German, Chinese and Tibetan languages, said Urdu Department coordinator Ali Abbas.

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• The prompt corrective action is aimed at improving the performance and will not impact the normal day-to-day operations, says RBI.


• The Reserve Bank of India has put Lakshmi Vilas Bank under prompt corrective action framework due to high bad loans and insufficient capital.

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• Christian Coleman, US sprinter, stamped his mark on world sprinting on Saturday with a dominant performance to sweep to the global 100 metres title and suggest the heir to retired Jamaican icon Usain Bolt has arrived.


• The 23-year-old American, who escaped a doping ban earlier this month on a technicality, swept over the finish line in a world-leading personal best of 9.76sec to claim his first major outdoor championship gold medal.

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• India named an unchanged squad for the 4th and 5th women's T20 Internationals against South Africa to be played in Surat respectively.


• India lead the five-match series 1-0 after winning the first game by 11 runs, while the second contest was washed out without a being bowled. The third T20I will be played.

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• Dragflicker Harmanpreet Singh scored a brace as the Indian men's hockey team defeated world number eight Spain 6-1 in their second match of Tour of Belgium in Antwerp.


• Harmanpreet (28th, 32nd minutes), skipper Manpreet Singh (24th), Nilakanta Sharma (39th), Mandeep Singh (56th) and Rupinderpal Singh (59th) were the goal scorers as world number 5 India capped off a brilliant performance.

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• IIM Bangalore's two-year MBA Programme retains its number 1 position in India in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Masters in Management (MiM) Rankings 2020 released (September 26).


• In the QS Masters in Management category, IIM Bangalore bagged the top spot among Indian institutions, while being placed 26th globally, with a score of 63.1 out of 100. The programme has scored significantly well (94.4) on the Alumni Outcomes parameter in the rankings.

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• An IIT Kharagpur professor has been named for Ethics in AI Research Award, which is part of Facebook's initiative, for his project dealing with bias in Indian media.


• Animesh Mukherjee, Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering department, has been selected for the Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Award in the ''operationalizing ethics'' category for his project "Targeted Bias in Indian Media Outlets", an IIT KGP statement.

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• Engages Vaijinath M. Gavarshetty, former SBI CGM from October 1.


• The board of directors of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL) approved the appointment of Vaijinath M. Gavarshetty as the Chief Executive Officer and key managerial personnel of the company with effect from October 1, 2019.

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• Mumbai based Indian author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi (42) is coming back with a new book entitled “Loss” which is a record on death and grief, drawing on a stock of personal losses of his parents and a beloved pet (Bruschetta). The book has been published by HarperCollins India.


• Loss ,a collection of three essays, has takes the reader down the dark, winding path to healing.It is scheduled to come out in the summer of 2020.