Top Districts is Best Marine District - Balasore in Odisha, Best Inland District - Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh.

China has launched its 3rd Gaofen 11 reconnaissance satellite with an optical resolution comparable to top US spy satellites.

The Poet Laureate award for 2021 has been conferred upon Indian poet Adil Jussawala.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has announced that the country is planning to build the world's first "Bitcoin City".

The State Bank of India (SBI) economists in its research report - Ecowrap, has revised upwards the GDP growth projection for India to a range of 9.3% - 9.6% for FY22 (2021-22).

The Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) have approved that up to 5 percent of the annual deposits can be invested in alternative investment funds (AIFs) including infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs).

The 15th edition of the biennial Trilateral Exercise 'Dosti' is underway between India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka in the Maldives.

The Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated two new state-of-the-art centres at IIT, Guwahati in Assam.

In women's single, fourth-seeded An Se-young of South Korea defeated top-seed Akane Yamaguchi to win the title.

The Russian military carried out successful test-firing of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile.