India Post Starts Speed Post Service to Six New Foreign Countries.

Former speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Kodela Sivaprasada Rao has passed away. He was one of the senior most leaders of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Kodela was six time MLA from Narsaraopet constituency in Guntur district. In 2014, post-bifurcation of AP, he was made the first Speaker of the Assembly.

The Haryana Government has appointed cricket legend Kapil Dev as the first Chancellor of Rai Sports University.

• GST Network has decided to make Aadhaar authentication or physical verification mandatory for new dealers from January 2020. The decision was taken in order to check malpractices in GST
• Those who don’t want Aadhaar authentication, physical verification will be carried out, which will be completed in three days. The GSTN also decided the much simplified new return system may be launched on January 1, 2020. Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi is head of the group of ministers of GST Network

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced a last mile ₹20,000 crore affordable housing package to benefit around 3.5 lakh home owners.

New York Becomes Second US State To Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes.

The 5th International Ramayan Festival was organized by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), in New Delhi. International Ramayan Festival is being organized for 5th year in a row, during which 17 countries have participated with their artists and rendered their versions of Ramayan. The Union Minister for Home Affairs, Amit Shah presided as Chief Guest over the Ramayan Festival.

Bangladesh Naval Ship (BNS) Somudra Avijan arrived at Visakhapatnam on a four-day visit to the Eastern Naval Command (ENC).

Wing Commander Anjali Singh has become India’s first female military diplomat to be posted in any of the Indian missions abroad.

India’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth recorded for the Q1(Apr-June) 2019-20 is 5% which is at a six-year low.

Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa recently announced that Hyderabad-Karnataka Region has been renamed as Kalyana Karnataka Region that comprises six districts of Karnataka: Koppal, Ballari, Bidar, Kalaburagi, Yadgir and Raichur.

On September 16, 2019 the govt. of Kerala and the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) jointly signed Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) with Maldives to strengthen cancer care in the island nation by giving training to doctors. Maldivian minister Abdulla Ameen and Kerala’s health minister KK Shylaja signed the MoU in presence of Kerala Chief Minister(CM) Pinarayi Vijayan.