World Senior Citizen Day is found globally on August 21 each year. The day is celebrated to raise cognizance about problems affecting older people, such as deterioration with age & the abuse of the elderly and support, honour and exhibit appreciation to seniors and to understand their achievements.

Earlier this week, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy issued an interim order allowing women candidates to take the National Defence Academy Examination to be held on November 14, 2021.

United Nations observes twenty-first August every year as the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism.

NTPC Limited has commissioned the largest floating solar PV project of 25 MegaWatt on the reservoir of its Simhadri thermal station in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

India's Manika Batra & G Sathiyan has won the mixed doubles title at the WTT Contender table tennis tournament in Budapest.

Sonny Chiba, a Japanese martial arts expert and actor who appeared in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill," dies at 82

Exim Bank has extended soft loans worth USD 210.73 million on behalf of the Indian government to Guinea to support various projects in the African country.

An all-women team of the three-armed forces successfully scaled Mt Manirang in Himachal Pradesh on August 15 and unfurled the national flag to celebrate the 75th Independence Day.

The government of India has constituted an 8-member Committee to double the production and quadruple the exports of handlooms in 3 years. Shri Sunil Sethi, Chairman of Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) New Delhi, is the Chairman of the committee.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched an ambitious 'Ubharte Sitaare Fund' -USF for export-oriented firms and startups in a program at Lucknow.