Argentinian- Lionel Messi beat Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and five-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo to win the best FIFA player of the year award for a record sixth time. U.S. co-captain Megan Rapinoe won the women's top award-Golden Boot.
Megan Rapinoe beat Alex Morgan and England’s Lucy Bronze.
SBI decided to link all the floating rate retail loans and loans to MSME to the RBI’s repo rate, with effect from October 1. According to this, every time when there is a change in repo rate, interest rates will change automatically.
Repo rate-linked loan interest rate is lower than MCLR-linked
India won 5 medals that included 1 silver and 4 bronze medals in the World Wrestling Championships 2019. India’s Rahul Aware won medal by winning bronze in the 61kg event while Dipak Punia settle for silver.
World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Pine Labs, a merchant-focused company, has entered into a strategic alliance with Federal Bank, to offer equated monthly installments (EMIs) on debit card-based offline transactions to the bank’s customers.
Last month, Pine Labs signed an MoU with Bank of Baroda
NRIs with Indian passport can now apply for biometric ID on arrival without the 182-day waiting period. In case NRI's passport does not have Indian address, he shall be allowed to submit any of the other UIDAI-approved documents as proof of address.
UIDAI Chairman: Ajay Bhushan Pandey
Airtel has tied up with Bharti AXA Life Insurance to offer pre-paid plan with insurance protection cover for its customers. The product combines Airtel’s deep distribution reach with Bharti AXA Life’s expertise in insurance.
It is currently available in Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry
Science and Technology and Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched ‘Unique Methods of Management and treatment of Inherited Disorders (UMMID)’ initiative to tackle inherited genetic diseases of new-born babies. He also inaugurated NIDAN Kendras.
NIDAN: National Inherited Diseases Administration
Facebook Inc bought New York-based CTRL-labs in a deal valued around $1 billion. CTRL-labs is a start-up that is exploring ways for people to communicate with computers using brain signals. It will join in the Facebook Reality Labs team.
Facebook Vice President of AR/VR Andrew Bosworth
Nilesh Shah, MD of Kotak Mahindra Asset Management, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). He will be succeeding Nimesh Shah, MD and CEO of ICICI Prudential AMC.
AMFI Vice-Chairman: Saurabh Nanavati
Veteran cricketer Madhav Apte died after suffering a cardiac arrest at the age of 86. He was the first Indian opener to aggregate over 400 runs in a Test series. His highest first-class score was 165 not out.
He earlier served as president of the Cricket Club of India
Tom Hanks is set to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next year's Golden Globe awards. He will receive the 2020 Cecil B DeMille award at the event in January,2020.
Award is given annually to an actor, director or producer