The Rajya Sabha has passed the Mental Health Care Bill to provide better healthcare for people suffering from mental illness and also to decriminalise suicide.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released a theme song for Tiranga Yatra to be organised to mark 70 years of Independence Day.

The International Day of the World̢۪s Indigenous Peoples is observed every year on 9 August to promote and protect the rights of the world̢۪s indigenous population.

• Odisha Government launches Baristha Bunakar Sahayata Yojana
• PM Narendra Modi launches Mission Bhagiratha in Telangana
• Gymnast Dipa Karmakar becomes first Indian to qualify for Vault Finals

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Mission Bhagiratha with an objective to provide safe drinking water to all.

Researchers in India for the first time have found that mice and rats exposed to endosulphan suffer from DNA damage and genomic instability, and impaired DNA damage response.

Mr Vijay Rupani (60) has sworn in as the 16th Chief Minister of Gujarat after Anandiben Patel had resigned from the post on August 3, 2016.

Telangana Government has inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for setting up Telangana Water Resources Information System (TRIS).

The Odisha Government had launched Baristha Bunakar Sahayata Yojana, a special assistance scheme for elderly weavers.

The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) will house the India̢۪s first repository on tigers, under its new Tiger Cell.

Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta has won the 20th Commonwealth Chess championship crown 2016 held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Gymnast Dipa Karmakar (22) created history by becoming the first Indian gymnast to qualify for the apparatus finals of artistic Gymnastics at the Rio 2016 Olympics.