India ranks 76th on World Economic Forum’s Global Energy Transition Index 2019. Sweden remained on the top of the list of 115 countries. India has moved up two places from 78th last year.
WEF HQ- Cologny, Switzerland; Founder- Klaus Schwab
Irish Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Conor McGregor has announced his retirement from the sport. He is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champion at featherweight and lightweight categories.
UFC HQ- Las Vegas, USA; President- Dana White;
Admiral Sunil Lamba, Chief of the Naval staff commissioned a state of the art "Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Training Facility – ABHEDYA at INS Shivaji, Lonavla (Maharashtra).
Vice Admiral Karambir Singh is appointed as the new Navy chief.
Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra is appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court, following the resignation of Chief Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi. Chief Justice AK Tripathi resigns after appointed as a judicial member of the Lokpal.
Justice PC Ghose was appointed as India’s First Lokpal.
Archana Kamath claimed Under-21 silver at the ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open Table Tennis Tournament while Sathiyan Gnanasekaran settled for bronze with a loss in the semi-final.
Archana Kamath was defeated by Japanese Satsuki Odo.
Archana Kamath won National Women's Singles Tournament 2019.
Peter Tabichi, a Maths & Physics teacher from a secondary school in a remote village in Kenya's Rift Valley has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize for 2019. The competition for this award is run by Varkey Foundation.
World Teachers’ day is observed on 5 October every year.
Axis Bank opened its 4000th branch at EON, Kharadi, Pune. The new branch was inaugurated by Amitabh Chaudhry, Managing Director and CEO, Axis Bank, and Ravi Narayanan, President and Head Branch Banking, Axis Bank.
Axis bank - 3rd largest private bank in India after HDFC & ICICI
Jet Airways Founders Naresh Goyal (also Chairman) and wife Anita Goyal have stepped down from the board of Jet Airways. Joint venture partner Etihad's stake will be brought down to 12 percent from 25 percent and Naresh Goyal will now hold 25 percent.
Jet Airways is 1st airline to connect India with Manchester, UK.
K. Govindaraj was unanimously re-elected as president of the Basketball Federation of India (BFI). Veselin Matic of Serbia will be India’s new Basketball Head Coach.
Headquarters of BFI is at New Delhi.
Apple Inc & Goldman Sachs Group Inc jointly launched the Apple Card credit card for iPhones. The card is tied to Apple Pay, a service that allows people to load banking information and pay in store or use it for purchases online.
Apple Inc. CEO- Tim Cook; HQ- California, USA;