The World Economic Forum's annual Sustainable Development Impact Summit will take place on September 20-23, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Reserve Bank of India had appointed a committee headed by N. S. Vishwanathan to make suggestions on structure for the urban cooperative banks (UCBs). The Panel was set up to suggest structure based on deposits, prescribed different capital adequacy as well as regulatory norms for them to their sizes.

A book titled 'Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID' has been authored by Ritu Menon.

Swedish green steel venture HYBRIT had made the 'world's first' customer delivery of steel produced without using coal.

A book titled 'Battlefield' has been authored by Vishram Bedekar, translated from the Marathi original Ranaangan by Jerry Pinto.

Japan's space agency has been planning on bringing soil samples back from the Martian Moon 'Phobos' by 2029.

The government launched a new geospatial planning portal called 'Yuktdhara' under Bhuvan. It was launched by Giriraj Singh, Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.

India pitched its indigenously built fighter aircraft at the International Military-Technical Forum 'ARMY-2021' in Moscow, Russia.

NITI Aayog and World Resources Institute (WRI), India, jointly launched the 'Forum for Decarbonizing Transport' in India.

Indian naval ship (INS) Shakti reached Sri Lanka on August 22, 2021, carrying 100 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) in a bid to help the island nation in combating the Covid-19 pandemic.