- Today on the Eastern seaboard, IAF undertook live firing of BrahMos missile from a Su30 MkI aircraft. The missile achieved a direct hit on the target, a decommissioned Indian Navy ship. The mission was undertaken in close coordination with Indian Navy.
- University Grants Commission has taken decision on a regulation for academic collaboration between Indian and foreign higher educational institution to offer training, joint and dual degree programmes. This was announced by UGC Chairman Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar in a virtual meeting with media today.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays foundation stone of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar; Says, Centre will help people avail cost-effective medicine.
- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla today arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam on a three day visit.
- Khadi and Village Industries Commission breaks all previous records to create highest ever employment under Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Program in Financial Year 2021-22.
- This is for the first time since the launch of the PMEGP Scheme in 2008, that KVIC has established over one lakh new units in a financial year.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will confer the Awards for Excellence in Public Administration 2021 on 21st of this month to mark the 15th Civil Services Day.
- National Apprenticeship Mela 2022 to be organised across the country in over 700 locations on 21st of this month.
- The WHO said it was struggling to deliver two generators to hospitals in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, fearing the worst for its hard-hit health system.
- The World Health Organization said it was trying to pre-position supplies closer to the frontlines to speed up delivery if a window opens.
- Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharastra, and Mizoram on the increasing COVID cases and positivity rate.
- In Rajasthan, eleven people killed in a road accident in Jhunjhunu district.
- Centre to organise a grand event to mark 400th Prakash Parv of Guru Tegh Bahadur at Red Fort in Delhi on Thursday.
- The Union Steel Ministry will host National Metallurgist Award 2021 tomorrow in New Delhi to recognise outstanding contribution of metallurgists and engineers in the field of iron and steel.
- On the first day in Asian Wrestling Championship in Mongolia, today three Indian grapplers, win bronze medals.
- In Bangladesh lashes erupted between students and traders in the new market area of the capital city Dhaka in which dozens of people including police personnel and media persons were reportedly injured.
