External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived at Hanoi,on the 1st leg of her 4-day two-nation tour. Aimed at deepening India’s strategic cooperation with Vietnam & Cambodia - the key countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations region.
ASEAN, HQ- Jakarta, Founded-1967.
At the Asian games 2018, Hima Das and Muhammed Anas won a silver each in women's and men 400m,while Dutee Chand grabbed silver in Women 100 m dash.
~Muhammed Anas- 400m in 45.69 seconds
~Dutee Chand- 100m in 11.32 seconds
~Hima Das- 400m in 50.59 seconds
In 1986 Seoul Asian Games, PT Usha grabbed silver in 400m race.
Indiabulls Ventures has appointed Abhaya Prasad Hota, former managing director at the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), as an independent director on the board for a period of 3 years. He worked on launching the NEFT, RTGS, IMPS & ABPS.
He worked at the Reserve Bank of India for 27 years.
To enhance its surveillance and investigation functions ,SEBI plans to build a private data storage cloud & automate its inspection of brokers. It has invited expression of interests (EoIs) from companies for enhancement of analytical capabilities.
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) ,Founded 1992.
Anil D Ambani has resigned as director of the Reliance Naval and Engineering (RNAVAL), he resigned in compliance with provisions of Section 165 of the Companies Act, 2013, prescribing the limit on directorships to only 10 public companies.
RNAVAL- Country's largest integrated shipbuilding facilitator.
North Korea plans to hold an international conference on blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies in Pyongyang in October.The first-ever Conference will be held over two-day starting Oct 1.
Blockchain systems-Popularised by cryptocurrency, Bitcoin.
SBI has asked its customers to get their ATM-cum-debit cards with magnetic stripe replaced with the one with EMV chip before December 31. EMV chip card protects against counterfeit (skimming) card fraud.
EMV stands for 'Europay MasterCard Visa'.
China successfully sent twin navigation satellites into the space on a single carrier rocket. Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. After few tests, they will work together with 10 other BeiDou-3 satellites.
BeiDou system started serving China in 2000.
Paytm Money, a subsidiary of digital payments major Paytm, will offer mutual fund investment products at zero fee to its customers. It will also offer mutual fund schemes in direct plans that come with lower expense ratios.
Paytm Founder- Vijay Shekhar Sharma ,Founded -2010.
US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president as a self-styled maverick Republican in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump passed way, he was 81 and was battling glioblastoma.
He lost in 2008 to Democrat Barack Obama.