Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the International Cooperation and Convention Centre - Rudraksh, in Varanasi.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui has been covering the situation in Kandahar over the past few days for the Reuters news agency.

Industrialist N.S. Srinivasa Murthy based in Bengaluru has been appointed as Honorary Consul General of Vietnam for Karnataka.

Jammu & Kashmir has got its first real-time air-quality monitoring station with the inauguration of the first-ever Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station at J&K Pollution Control Committee headquarters at Rajbagh, Srinagar by Chairman Suresh Chugh.

Singer Ananya Birla has teamed up with music maestro AR Rahman to launch a cheer song for Indian sports personalities as they gear up for Tokyo Olympics.

The Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has launched the Electric Bike Taxi scheme in Bengaluru.

India's first grain dispensing ATM has been installed at Farrukhnagar in the Gurugram district of Haryana under a pilot project, to make ration dispersal hassle and complaint-free for citizens.

The Export-Import Bank of India has extended a USD 35.26 million loan for a power transmission project being executed by Kalpataru Power Transmission in Senegal.

The Punjab government announced a waiver of Rs 590 crore worth of loans under the farm debt waiver scheme for labourers and the landless farming community.

The Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for 16 national highway projects in Manipur with an investment of Rs 4,148 crores covering a total length of 298 km.