Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant announced that the state will become the first in the country to supply water free of cost to its citizens.

India's Mariyappan Thangavelu has won the silver medal in the men's high jump (T63) at the Tokyo Paralympics.

The inaugural International Day for People of African Descent is being celebrated on August 31, 2021, by the United Nations.

At the ongoing Tokyo Paralympics 2020, Indian shooter Singhraj Adana has won the bronze medal in the P1 Men's 10m Air Pistol SH1 final.

Amul, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation has dropped two places to rank 18th in Rabobank's 2021 Global Top 20 Dairy Companies list.

For the first time in the history of the Indian judiciary, nine new judges including three women judges took oath as Supreme Court judges. President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday appointed nine judges to the Supreme Court, taking its total strength to 33 judges, one short of full strength.

The Researchers from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform in South Africa have informed that the potential variant of interest, C.1.2, has been first detected in South Africa in May 2021.

The world's highest motorable road at 18,600 ft connecting Leh to the Pangong Lake has been inaugurated in Ladakh by Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal.

Netherlands-based Prosus NV has announced to acquire the Indian digital payments provider BillDesk and merge it with its own fintech service business PayU.

Sharad Kumar has won the bronze medal, clearing the 1.83m mark, in men's high jump (T63) at the Tokyo Paralympics.