South Indian Bank has appointed PR Seshadri as its managing director and chief executive officer effective from October 1. He will succeed Murali Ramakrishnan who served at the post from October 1, 2020 till September 30, 2023.
Sh. Seshadri has served, amongst other positions, as Managing Director & CEO of The Karur Vysya Bank Limited (KVB).
The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence.
A Special Campaign 3.0 will begin on 2 October with a focus on Swachhata and reducing pendency in government offices with a saturation approach. The campaign coincides with the Birth Anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. It will continue till 31st of October. The Campaign is a sequel of the Special campaigns conducted in the last two years.
India's goods and services tax (GST) collections reached Rs 1.63 lakh crore in September, a 10% increase compared to the same period last year. The CGST component was Rs 29,818 crore, SGST Rs 37,657 crore, IGST Rs 83,623 crore, and cess Rs 11,613 crore. The government settled Rs 33,736 crore to CGST and Rs 27,578 crore to SGST from IGST.
Indian women's roller skating team won a bronze medal in the 3000m relay event at the Asian Games. The team consisting of Sanjana Bathula, Karthika Jagadeeswaran, Heeral Sadhu, and Aarathy Kasturi Raj finished the race in 4 minutes and 34.861 seconds.
After a slow start to the financial year, initial public offerings (IPOs) got a boost in the month of September when Rs 12,000 crore were raised through this route. The first half of the financial year saw over Rs 26,000 crore being raised. Almost 50% of them took place in September alone, according to data from PRIME database.
The Bihar government released a caste-based survey report on, ahead of the Lok Sabha election in 2024. According to the survey, extremely backward caste (EBC) comprises 36.01% of the population, OBC 27.12% and general category 15.52% of the covered population. Scheduled caste comprises 19.65% and ST 1.68% of population covered under the survey.
As part of the Indian Navy's long range deployment in Southeast Asia, the ships of First Training Squadron (1TS) -INS Tir, INS Sujata, and ICGS Sarathi arrived at Port Klang, Malaysia.
Renowned author, philanthropist and wife of Infosys co-founder N. R. Narayana Murty, Sudha Murty, was conferred with the Global Indian Award by the Canada India Foundation.
The Global Indian Award, which is worth $50,000, is given each year to a prominent Indian who has made a major mark in his or her chosen field.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology for 2023 has been awarded to Katalin Kariko, & Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid-19.
Svante Pääbo was awarded the prize for Physiology in 2022 "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".
In Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, Indian Table Tennis players Ayhika Mukherjee and Sutirtha Mukherjee picked up a historic bronze medal in the women’s doubles tournament. The Indian duo lost to Suyong Cha and Sugyong Pak of North Korea in the semi-finals.
The Indian men’s team, comprising Aryanpal Singh Ghuman, Anandkumar Velkumar, Siddhant Rahul Kamble and Vikram Rajendra, won the bronze medal in the 3000m relay event in roller skating in the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou.
World Habitat Day is celebrated on the first Monday of October each year. In 2023, World Habitat Day will be observed on October 2nd, providing a platform for discussions and initiatives focused on urban development and housing.
2023 Theme: Resilient urban economies. Cities as drivers of growth and recovery.