- National Technology Day is being celebrated in country today. On this day in 1998, India successfully conducted nuclear test in Pokhran, Rajasthan.
- Supreme Court orders that 152-year old sedition law under Section 124A of Indian Penal Code should be effectively kept in abeyance till Union Government reconsiders the provision.
- Ministry of Education today issued guidelines regarding precautions to be observed by schools to combat the ill-effects of the heat wave.
- In the guidelines, the Ministry said, school hours may start early and get over before noon.
- Indian Railways has introduced separate seats for newly-born children in trains.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address Utkarsh Samaroh at Bharuch in Gujarat tomorrow via video conferencing; To mark celebration of 100 per cent saturation of schemes for providing timely financial assistance to needy persons.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the Second Global COVID Virtual Summit tomorrow evening at the invitation of the US President Joseph Biden.
- Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt has said that the government is making all efforts to meet defence requirements through domestic procurement.
- He was addressing the National Technology Day function organised by Defence Research and Development Organisation in New Delhi.
- Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal holds bilateral meeting and co-chairs the 10th India-Oman Joint Commission Meeting with his counterpart Qais bin Mohammed Al Yousef.
- 15th round of India-Uzbekistan Foreign Office Consultations held in New Delhi. Consultations were co-chaired by Secretary (West) in MEA, Sanjay Verma and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Furkat Sidikov. Last round of FoC was held in virtual format in Nov 2020.
- India unanimously elected as new Chair of the Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA) for 2022-2024 in Manila, Philippines.
- Bangladesh Finance Minister A. H. M. Mustafa Kamal today said that the government is very much cautious about foreign exchange management in view of the prevailing global situation.
- President Kovind accepts credentials from Ambassador of Slovak Republic Robert Maxian, Ambassador of Republic of Sudan Abdalla Omer Bashir Elhusain & Ambassador of Nepal Dr. Shankar Prasad Sharma at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
- Under cyclone Asani impact, Light and moderate rainfall likely at many places over coastal Andhra Pradesh, Coastal areas of Odisha and West Bengal while heavy rainfall predicted at isolated places over coastal Andhra Pradesh.
