Oct. 10, 2024
1. 13-year-old Tanvi Patri won the Asian Championships U-15 title at the Badminton Asia junior championship in Chengdu, China.
2. Netherlands Lando Norris won the Dutch Grand Prix 2024.
3. 19-year-old Linda Noskova secured her maiden WTA tour title at the Monterrey Open.
4. Chennai-based startup Space Zone India in collaboration with Martin Group launched the world’s first mobile Hybrid Rocket: RHUMI-1.
5. Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh has chaired the bilateral meeting on US-India Civil Nuclear Commerce in New Delhi.
6. The eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu Janmashtami: August 26, 2024, marks the 5251st birth anniversary of Lord Krishna.
7. The Union Cabinet on Saturday approved the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS), set to benefit approximately 23 lakh government employees and will serve as an alternative to National Pension System (NPS).
8. Tata Power Solar Systems Ltd (TPSSL) has signed an agreement with ICICI Bank to provide financing for solar units to residential and corporate customers.
9. Global Property Price Index: Manila ranked first, Mumbai ranked 2nd and New Delhi ranked 3rd.
10. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has updated its e-mandate framework to include the auto-replenishment of balances in FASTag and the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC).
11. China claimed is the world’s largest zinc producer.
12. Former Swedish tennis player and ex-coach of Roger Federer, Peter Lundgren, has died at 59.
13. Bandhan Bank has launched 'avni', designed exclusively for women, to boost its current and savings account deposits.
14. Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Penn State Created a miniature editing tool: ISDra2TnpB, making it suitable for plant genome editing.
15. The Union Cabinet has approved the BioE3 policy to advance biotechnology-based manufacturing, aiming to drive a tech revolution similar to the IT industry’s impact in the 1990s.
16. The 2nd India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR) was held at Singapore.