National
SSB, SRM University and ITC make donations for PMNRF.
The Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), B.D. Sharma, called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday and handed over a demand draft of Rs 2.12 crore towards the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for flood-affected people of Jammu and Kashmir.
International
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced to have established a UN mission to combat Ebola with the advance teams to be deployed to West Africa by Monday.The UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER)
The death toll in the heavy rains triggered by typhoon Kalmaegi rose to 8 on Saturday, even as nearly 400 students were rescued from an inundated school in China's southwestern Yunnan province.
Scotland's pro-independence leader Alex Salmond resigned as first minister and leader of his political party today, hours after Scots voted to remain in the United Kingdom.
The US and China have started a two-day meeting at the Pentagon to set up a code of conduct on naval and air force safety on the high seas, in the wake of a Chinese jet intercepting an American Navy patrol plane in the international waters of South China Sea.
Former finance minister Ashraf Ghani was declared Afghanistan's next president on Sunday, hours after signing a power-sharing deal with his rival Abdullah Abdullah that ended a prolonged standoff over the disputed result.
Sports
North Korea's Kim Un-Guk thanked his supreme leader Kim Jong-Un as he broke three world records on his way to gold in the 62kg class weightlifting at the Asian Games on Sunday.
Ace Indian shooter Jitu Rai clinched a historic gold in the 50m Pistol and Shweta Chaudhry gave India first medal by clinching bronze in the Women 10m Air Pistol Finals, on Saturday on the opening day of the 17th Asian Games at the Ongnyeon International Shooting Range.
Indian shooters were on target for the second successive day as they delivered a bronze in the men's 10m air pistol team event, while shuttlers bagged another medal of same hue in the women's team competition in the 17th Asian Games in Incheon on Sunday.
Dipika Pallikal also assured the country of its first women's singles squash medal in the Asian Games.
Business
Five associates of State Bank of India (SBI) would raise about Rs 33,000 crore capital to meet global risk norms -- Basel III -- in the next five years.
Overseas investors have pumped in a staggering over Rs 1 lakh crore into the Indian debt market since the beginning of the year primarily on account of government's reform agenda.
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