The athletics season is nearing an end, but Indian competitors are still at it, some even continuing to raise their performances. On Wednesday, Services sprinter Manikanta H Hoblidhar broke the 100m national record at the National Open Championships in Bengaluru.

Manikanta clocked 10.23 secs to win the third 100m semifinal, improving on Amiya Mallick's mark of 10.26 secs set in 2016. Manikanta had clocked 10.50 secs in the preliminary heat earlier in the day. The final is scheduled on Thursday.

In a remarkable feat of chess mastery, the talented Shubhi Gupta, a 13-year-old prodigy hailing from the enchanting city of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, has claimed victory in the prestigious U-19 Girls’ National Chess Championship. This fiercely contested tournament unfolded its brilliance from September 20th to September 28th, within the charming confines of Ahmedabad.

Shubhi’s journey to the championship was nothing short of awe-inspiring, as she faced off against a formidable lineup of opponents, displaying an unwavering resolve and strategic acumen that enabled her to amass an extraordinary score of 9.5 out of 11 rounds. Notably, this outstanding performance Catapulted her International ELO rating by a remarkable 141 points, a testament to her rapid growth and undeniable potential on the global chess stage.

If things go as planned, 3D-printed buildings could turn out to be the next big thing in Kerala’s construction sector.

Kerala’s first 3D-printed building, a 380 sq ft, one-room summer house, is all set for a formal inauguration on October 10 on the Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra (Kesnik) campus at PTP Nagar in Thiruvananthapuram.

Designed as a demonstration project, AMAZE-28 – as the summer house is named – was completed in 28 days. The project was carried out by Tvasta, a Chennai-based construction tech start-up launched by IIT-Madras alumni, with which Kesnik has inked an memorandum of understanding (MoU).

Indian Men’s Doubles pair of Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty rose to number one in the latest BWF rankings for the first time in their careers.

The Indian duo sealed the top spot in the rankings after securing gold in the Men’s Doubles in the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou.

Satwik-Chirag beat South Korea’s Choi Solgyu and Kim Wonho in straight games to win India’s first ever badminton gold in the Asian Games.

Satwik and Chirag have now aggregated 92411 points from 18 tournaments this year, 2000 points ahead of second-placed Fajar Alfian and Mohammad Rian Ardianto.

Former Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) Sarat Chandra Mishra passed away on Monday at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar.

The retired Indian Police Service official was 88.

"Mishra was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar after being tested positive for dengue," an official statement said.

Sarat Chandra Mishra, an IPS officer of the 1959 batch, also served in the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).

India and Tanzania on Monday elevated their ties to the level of strategic partnership, inked six pacts to boost cooperation in several key areas and agreed on a five-year roadmap to significantly expand defence engagement at talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

In his media statement after the talks, Modi said both sides are also working on an agreement to increase trade in local currencies, and described Tanzania as a “valued partner” in the Indo-Pacific.

The prime minister said steps are being taken to adopt the success story of UPI in Tanzania and that both sides will continue to explore new opportunities to realise the full potential of the economic cooperation.

Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has embarked on an official visit to Marrakech, Morocco, beginning today. She will attend the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, along with G20 FMCBG meetings. The annual meetings will be attended by Finance Ministers and Central Bankers from across the world. Finance Minister Mrs Sitharaman and RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das will co-chair the fourth G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting.

The Finance Minister will also hold bilateral meetings with Indonesia, Morocco, Brazil, Switzerland, Germany and France, besides other meetings, scheduled to take place from 11th to 15th October in Marrakech. 

Over 18 lakh accounts to the tune of over 11 thousand crore rupees have been opened under Mahila Samman Savings Certificate 2023 across the country.

Communication Ministry said, the new scheme Mahila Samman Savings Certificate was launched on 1st April this year. The two year tenure scheme offers an attractive and fixed interest of 7.5 percent interest compounded quarterly. The scheme is valid for a two-year period upto 31st March 2025. The Ministry said, more than 33 thousand accounts to tune of 405 crore riupees have been opened in Delhi. 

Union Minister for AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal said that the 8th Ayurveda Day will be celebrated on 10th of November.

Briefing media in New Delhi on Tuesday, Mr Sonowal said, the main event will be held at Panchkula in Haryana. He said, the theme for this year is Ayurveda for One Health.

The theme is in alignment with the theme of India’s G20 Presidency ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’, and the focal theme for Ayurveda day-2023 has been decided as ‘Ayurveda for One Health’ with Tag line ‘Ayurveda for everyone on every focusing on human-animal-plant-environment interface.

Secretary in Ministry of AYUSH Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha said, a total of 12,500 Ayush Health and Wellness Centers have been approved under NAM, out of which 8095 are already operational.

Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India Ajay Kumar Sood today inaugurated the ‘Bharat NCX 2023. Addressing the event, Mr. Sood laid out the importance of Digital Public Infrastructure protection, hardware security needs and Post Quantum Cryptography.

The second edition of the National Cyber Security Exercise 2023 ‘Bharat NCX 2023’ will be conducted as a hybrid exercise over a period of twelve days till 20th of this month. The exercise aims to train senior management and technical personnel of Government and Critical Sector organizations and Public and Private agencies on contemporary cyber threats and handling cyber incidents and response. The programme is being conducted by the National Security Council Secretariat in strategic partnership with Rashtriya Raksha University. The participants will be trained on various key cyber security areas such as Intrusion Detection Techniques, Malware Information Sharing Platform, Vulnerability Handling and Penetration Testing, Network Protocols and Data Flows, Digital Forensics.