In ICC Men’s World Cup Cricket, India beat Australia by 6 wickets in their first game of World Cup 2023 to start their campaign on a winning note at the MA Chidambaram Stadium last night. Chasing a target of 200 runs set by Australia, India made 201 runs for the loss of four wickets in 41.2 overs. Virat Kohli scored 85 and KL Rahul made unbeaten 97 to help India register a win. KL Rahul was declared Player of the Match. The Men in Blue also broke Australia's 27-year-old streak of winning the first match of the World Cup.

A strong 165 run partnership between Virat Kohli and KL Rahul for the 4th wicket was highlight of the Indian Innings. Virat Kohli and KL Rahul joined hands and stitched one of the greatest partnerships in World Cup history to take India to a win. Earlier, opting to bat first, Australia were all out for just 199 in 49.3 overs. For India, Ravindra Jadeja, scalped three wickets, Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav picked two wickets while Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Siraj and Hardik Pandya took one wicket each.

India’s Jyothi Surekha Vennam won gold medal in the women’s individual compound archery event at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Saturday.

Jyothi defeated So Chaewon of South Korea 149-145 in the final to complete a hattrick of gold medals, having already won titles in the women’s and mixed team events.

India on Saturday woke up to a very golden morning with its archers and the kabaddi team helping the nation to secure its long waited dream of achieving 100 medals target for the first time ever.

With a nail-biting 26-25 victory over Chinese Taipei in the women's kabaddi final, the Indian contingent won its 100th medal at the Asian Games, a first.

The women's kabaddi team accomplished the feat by winning the continental championship for the third time, improving one spot from their runner-up finish at the previous Games in Indonesia, and realising the nation's hopes of reaching the historic three-figure mark for the first time.

Indian archer Aditi Gopichand Swami came up with a stellar performance in the women’s compound archery women’s individual event to clinch the bronze medal at the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday.

Gopichand defeated Indonesia’s Ratih Zilizati Fadhly 146-140 to secure the bronze medal in the compound archery event, bringing India a step closer to taking its medal count in this Asiad past 100.

Aditi dominated the game from the very first set while the Indonesian trailed and eventually fell out of medal contention.

Aditi maintained consistency and scored 29 points in the first three sets. In the fourth game, she bagged 30 points and followed it up with a score of 29 in the last set.

The Reserve Bank has proposed to include the beneficiaries of @RBI under the Payments Infrastructure Development Fund - PIDF Scheme.

In a statement regarding various developmental and regulatory policy measures issued from Mumbai today, RBI said the decision is expected to give a fillip to its efforts towards promoting digital transactions at the grassroots level.

The Reserve Bank has further proposed to extend the PIDF Scheme by a further period of two years, i.e., up to December 31, 2025. It may be recalled that the scheme was operationalized in January 2021 for a period of three years with an aim to incentivize the deployment of payment acceptance infrastructure such as physical Point of Sale (PoS), Quick Response (QR) codes in tier-3 to tier-6 centres, northeastern states and Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. RBI has informed that over 2.66 crore new touchpoints have been deployed under the Scheme till August 2023.

President Droupadi Murmu will inaugurate the International Research Conference on Just and Resilient Agri-Food Systems to be organized from 9th October to 12th October in New Delhi. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Gender Platform are going to host the four-day conference which is titled From Research to Impact- Towards Just and Resilient Agri-food Systems.

Briefing media about the conference today, Director General of ICAR, Dr Himanshu Pathak said that the conference, and its theme, are significant in the wake of the recent G20 Summit that unequivocally endorsed women-led development.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is planning to establish gift shops in its monuments. It will create an opportunity for the cultural and creative industries to work closely with the monuments. The ASI intends to leverage souvenirs to generate interest and promotion of heritage monuments.

It has released an Expression of Interest on its website to enhance interest and recognition of Indian cultural crafts and heritage leading to their conservation, development, and sustaining the livelihood of the associated artisans and their communities. An entire list of 84 monuments is available on the Expression of Interest.

The 52nd GST Council meeting is underway in New Delhi. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is chairing the meeting. It is being attended by Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, besides Finance Ministers of States and Union Territories and Senior officials from Centre and States.

The Union Home Minister Amit Shah is all set for a day's visit to Uttarakhand today. During his stay, he will be presiding over the 24th meeting of the Central Regional Council at Narendra Nagar in Tehri district. The meeting is likely to be attended by the Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Uttarakhand. The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, arrived yesterday to attend the meeting.

Later on, the Home Minister will also be participating in the 49th All India Police Science Congress, which is being held at the Forest Research Institute (FRI) in the State capital of Dehradun. The Congress will focus on policing in the 5G era, narcotics, internal security, social media challenges, and community policing. It is being organised under the aegis of the Police Research and Development Bureau.

Aman Sehrawat secured a bronze medal for India in the men's freestyle wrestling 57kg category at Asian Games 2023. Sehrawat beat local favorite Liu Minghu by 11-0 in Hangzhou to win the 93rd medal for India at the continental meet this year.

In case you didn't know, Aman Sehrawat is the U-23 world champion. Aged 16, he became the first Indian wrestler to win a gold medal at the U-23 World Wrestling Championships in Pontevedra, Spain, last year. He also won a silver medal at the U-20 World Wrestling Championships.