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• By day, the unforgiving sun glares off the road beside Ipah's wooden home with blinding brightness as a passing motorbike stirs a swirl of dust.


• By night, the beams of an occasional truck carrying coal or palm fruits pierce the darkness.


• This remote corner of Indonesia is set to be transformed from a forest backwater on the island of Borneo to a global city - a new capital of a country whose 260 million people make it the world's fourth most populous.

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• As Prime Minister, Theresa May was direct in her criticism of lawmakers in Britain's parliament, whom she accused as recently as March of "infighting," "political games and the arcane procedural rows."


• Now, more than a month after she resigned amid a lack of confidence in her ability to oversee an orderly British exit from the European Union, she sits in parliament among the very lawmakers she so pointedly criticized.

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• AL-HOL, SYRIA: The woman told aid workers it was an accident. Her 14-year-old daughter had slipped and fallen, she said. There was nothing they could have done.


• But the body told a different story. The girl's neck had been broken in three places, doctors said, and she died with eyes open, biting her lips and struggling to breathe.


• Photos and medical records suggested she had been beaten about the torso, then strangled. It was murder, not a misstep.

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• The Austrian capital Vienna has retained its ranking as the world's most liveable city, according to an annual report from the Economist.


• Vienna once again came ahead of Melbourne -- which had held the top ranking for seven years until losing it to Vienna in 2018 -- according to a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released.


• The top two were followed by Sydney, Osaka, and Calgary.


• Each year the EIU gives 140 cities scores out of 100 on a range of factors such as living standards, crime, transport infrastructure, access to education and healthcare, as well as political and economic stability.

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• The US Defense Department said it was freeing up $3.6 billion in funds budgeted for other projects to build a wall on the Mexican border as ordered by President Donald Trump.


• Six weeks after being confirmed by Congress, Defense Secretary Mike Esper has signed off on the diversion of funds from 127 "deferred military projects" both inside and outside the country, said Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffmann.

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• The disfigured body of the young woman was found on Saturday, hidden under rubbish, branches and an old quilt.


• A local resident passing near the train station of Cagnes-sur-Mer, southern France, though he had seen a foot and raised the alarm.


• The death of 21-year-old Salomé has been recorded as the 100th case of femicide this year.


• It comes as the government announces measures to combat the killing of women related to domestic violence.

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• Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that “genuine Indians” left out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) should not worry while included “foreigners” should not rejoice as long as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were around.


• “I want to make it clear that nothing is final till the Prime Minister and the Home Minister are around. Nobody should say the last word till the names of foreigners are excluded from the NRC and the genuine Indians included,” Mr. Sarma told a local TV channel.

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• India and Japan have decided to hold their first Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue (2+2) ahead of the Japan-India annual summit this year for “advancing cooperation towards peace and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific region”.


• “The Ministers recognised that peace and stability of the Indian and Pacific Oceans are crucial for ensuring prosperity of the Indo-Pacific region and the entire world, and had a frank exchange of views on the current security situation in the Indo-Pacific region, including developments on the Korean Peninsula and in the South China Sea,” the Defence Ministry said in a statement.


• Accord on the meeting was reached by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya at the India-Japan annual defence ministerial dialogue, the Defence Ministry said.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that his visit to Russia will give a fresh boost to relations between India and Russia.


• PM Modi landed in the far eastern city of Vladivostok early this morning. During his two-day visit, he will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and attend the Eastern Economic Forum.


• "It seems to me that nature itself connects us with the far east. For example, every December, Siberian cranes fly to my native state of Gujarat. For them, this is a kind of tourist destination.


• Siberian cranes fly from there to Gujarat, many Indians go to the Far East. So this is a natural connection," PM Modi said in an interview to Russia's state-run TASS news agency.

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• The governors of five US states - New Jersey, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware and Indiana - are scheduled to visit India over the next few months to enhance economic ties between the countries.


• They will be leading high-powered trade delegations comprising top businesses from their respective states.


• The unprecedented move of five American governors visiting India in quick succession is a part of the efforts by the Trump administration and the Modi government to enhance a state-to-state relationship.

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• The four Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLAs, whose disqualification was sought by senior party leader Abhay Singh Chautala under the anti-defection law, submitted their resignations to Haryana assembly Speaker Kanwal Pal here, officials said.


• The legislators included Dabwali MLA Naina Chautala, who is the mother of JJP leader Dushyant Chautala.


• The other legislators who submitted their resignation are Anoop Dhanak (Uklana), Rajdeep Phogat (Dadri) and Prithi Singh (Narwana).


• They were called to submit their reply on the complaint lodged by INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala.

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• IIT Kharagpur has been selected for setting up a Sophisticated Analytical and Technical Help Institute (SATHI), a Department of Science and Technology initiative of the Centre, for which Rs. 125 crore has been earmarked over a period of three years.


• The primary objective of the state-of-the-art, professionally managed science and technology infrastructure facility, will be to extend help to the academic institutes in the neighbouring regions, an IIT KGP statement said here.


• Research establishments and industries, particularly start-ups and manufacturing units, will also be able to use the sophisticated instruments in a few select areas.

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• National Testing Agency (NTA), began receiving application for JEE Main exam online. Along with opening the application window, the agency also announced some vital changes in the exam pattern for the JEE Main exam.


• JEE Main exam was last year converted from once-a-year exam to twice-a-year exam, all to accommodate and give another chance to students who may not be able to give their best performance while sitting for the exam the first time.


• In its second year of conducting the exam, NTA has increased the number of papers in JEE Main from two to three.

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• 16 Students from various Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country have been selected through an Online Space Quiz conducted by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), to witness the landing of Chandrayaan 2 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 7.


• India's first moon lander - Vikram - is scheduled to land on the south polar region of the moon on September 7 between 1:30am to 2.30am. A total number of 1,50,279 students from various Kendriya Vidyalayas from all over the country participated in the online Space Quiz Conducted by the space organisation.


• The government had earlier announced a quiz on space technology, whose winners will get a chance to watch live the Chandrayaan 2 moon mission spacecraft make a soft landing on the lunar soil in September.

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• Indian Bank will retain its USP and gather more strength and scale in the next 3-4 years, says CEO Padmaja Chunduru.


• Indian Bank has the metrics to be the anchor bank in its merger with Allahabad Bank, and the amalgamated entity would truly be a pan-India one, according to a top official of Indian Bank.

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• Public sector banks (PSBs) can now create Chief General Manager (CGM) posts as per their business needs.


• The Department of Financial Services (DFS) in the Finance Ministry granted the flexibility to all nationalised banks.


• Banking industry experts see this development as part of PSB Governance reforms undertaken by the Government and empowerment of Bank Boards.

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• Qatar unveiled the logo for the 2022 World Cup which will be hosted by the Gulf emirate, displaying it in public spaces in Doha and cities around the world.


• The design is a stylized Arabic white unisex shawl with maroon patterning, which is displayed in a figure-of-eight symbolizing infinity while creating a heart shape above the words “FIFA WORLD CUP Qatar 2022”.


• It was projected onto the vast facade of the country's National Archives in the capital's southern Msheireb district to a fanfare that included a procession of soldiers on horseback watched by a crowd of hundreds.

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• President Ramnath Kovind will be conferring the National Teachers' Awards to the winners of 2018 at a function on September 5.


• The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has already released the list of teachers who would be felicitated tomorrow by the President.


• A total of 46 teachers from across the country will be felicitated in an event which will be held in the national capital.


• The award is in its 61st year having been instituted in 1958.


• The Ministry had invited nominations for the award from May 6 to June 25, 2019. Teachers are selected at three different levels for the award.


• First, the nominees are scrutinized by a District Selection Committee. The names of nominees selected by the district committee are then sent to a State Selection Committee which then forwards its recommendations to an Independent National Jury.

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• Saudi Arabia removed Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih from his position as Chairman of Saudi Aramco, the second time his role has been scaled back in less than a week, as the government prepares to sell shares in the state-owned oil company.


• Al-Falih said on Twitter that he will be replaced by Yasir Al-Rayyan, head of the sovereign wealth fund.

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• Former India spinner Sunil Joshi has been appointed as coach of the Uttar Pradesh Ranji team for a one-year term, the UPCA has announced.


• The former left-arm spinner from Karnataka will join the training camp on September 20. The Karnataka stalwart, who was Bangladesh’s spin consultant till the World Cup, had applied for the Indian team’s bowling coach job but was not shortlisted.


• “We have appointed Sunl Joshi as coach of our team for one year. He will join the camp before the Vijay Hazare trophy,” Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) Secretary Yudhvir Singh told PTI-Bhasha.

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• A new book entitled “First They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks” penned by journalist Sophie Ansel(France) will be formally released by Penguin Random House (India) on September 9, 2019.


• The book documents the troubles of Rohingya community, through the eyes of a Rohingya, “Habiburahman”, who was born and raised in a small village in western Burma( now Myanmar), in 1979, grew up stateless with his people when their own country’s military leader ordered that Rohingya were not one among the 135 recognized ethnic groups that formed the 8 ‘national races’.