- Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched Sahakar Mitra Internship programme to provide paid internship to youth and ensure availability of assured project loans to young cooperators.
- Railways created a new world benchmark by successfully running first Double Stack Container Train in high rise Over Head Equipment (OHE) electrified from Palanpur and Botad stations in Gujarat.
- The Petroleum Ministry has constituted a three-member high-level committee headed by Mr.SCL Das to inquire into the blowout at an Oil India Ltd well in Assam and the subsequent fire that killed two firefighters and injured at least one.
- A week after being hit by Cyclone Nisarga, Maharashtra has renamed its Environment Ministry as Environment and Climate Change Ministry.
- Union Minister for Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank virtually released India Rankings-2020 for Higher Educational Institutions in New Delhi. IIT Madras has topped the overall ranking in list.
- According to Mercer’s ‘2020 Cost of Living Survey’, India’s financial capital Mumbai has emerged as the most expensive city in the country for expatriates in terms of cost of living. Mumbai is the 60th most expensive city for expatriates globally, while it ranks 19th in Asia.
- Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space achieves another record after 25 years becoming the first woman to reach the ocean’s deepest point.
- Eminent Indian-American soil scientist Rattan Lal has been named this year’s recipient of the World Food Prize for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production that conserves natural resources and mitigates climate change.
- Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) delivered ICGS Kanaklata Barua, the fifth and final ship in the series of Fast Patrol Vessels (FPV) for the Indian Coast Guard.
- The number of Asiatic lions in the Gir forest region has increased by 29 per cent to 674, the Gujarat forest department.
