The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted high-level committee to suggest ways to tighten security along India-Pakistan border.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Stand-up India scheme aimed at providing credit to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and women borrowers in the non-farm sector.

Scientists have discovered a rare triple-star system named KELT-4Ab with a gas giant planet similar in size to Jupiter.

Former Project Director of Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) Myneni Hari Prasad Rao passed away due to old age ailments.

Five-time world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand (46) will be honoured with the Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award.

DCB Bank has launched an India̢۪s first of its kind Aadhaar-based Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) usage facility.

Bihar Government has taken a decision to completely ban on all types of liquor (alcohol) throughout the state including Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL).

India̢۪s First Semi-High Speed Train (SHST) Gatimaan Express was flagged off between New Delhi and Agra.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cut down repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.5 per cent from 6.75 per cent, with immediate effect.

• IISc ranked India’s top university in first NIRF Survey
• World’s first public dengue vaccination programme launched in Philippines
• World’s first White Tiger Safari opens in Madhya Pradesh

The Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangaluru was adjudged as the best Indian university in the first National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).

The world̢۪s first public dengue vaccination programme was launched in the Philippines with a French drug Dengvaxia (world̢۪s 1st dengue fever vaccine) to combat mosquito-borne disease.