In India, the National Sports Day is observed every year on 29 August.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation the renovated complex of Jallianwala Bagh Smarak in Punjab's Amritsar via video conference.

The Coordinating Centre of the BRICS Agricultural Research Platform is housed at NASC Complex, Pusa, New Delhi.

The Reserve Bank of India has increased the limit of fund transfer under the Indo-Nepal Remittance Facility Scheme from Rs 50,000 per transaction to Rs 2 lakh per transaction.

Raksha Mantri, Shri Rajnath Singh visited the Army Sports Institute (ASI), Pune and he named the Army Sports Institute stadium as "Neeraj Chopra Stadium".

However, for cash-based transfers under the Indo-Nepal Remittance Facility per transaction limit of Rs 50,000 will still be present with a maximum number of transfers in a year allowed at 12.

The Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, launched India's first indigenously developed Quantum Computer Simulator Toolkit. The development of the QSim toolkit is a collaborative effort of IISc (Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore, IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Roorkee and C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing).

The International Day against Nuclear Tests is held on August 29 since 2010.

The Indian Navy's frigate "Trikand" exercised with German frigate "Bayern" in the Gulf of Aden.

The e-Photo exhibition "Making of the Constitution" and Virtual Film Poster Exhibition "Chitranjali@75" has launched by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.