The Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) has revised North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIP), 2007.

The Madras High Court has banned all unauthorised Sharia courts in mosques across Tamil Nadu, saying centres of worship were only to be used for religious purposes.

Scientists have discovered as many as 163 new species in the ecologically diverse Greater Mekong region of the Southeast Asia. It includes 3 mammals species, 9 amphibians, 11 fish, 14 reptiles and 143 plants.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of the country̢۪s first Indian Institute of Skills (IIS) in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh to make India the Skill Capital of the World.

Scientists including those from India have found a huge ‘dead zone’ of an estimated 60,000 square kilometres in Bay of Bengal.

The 12-foot-tall stone statue of renowned Tamil poet and philosopher-saint Thiruvalluvar was inaugurated at Mela Bhawan in Haridwar, Uttarakhand by Chief minister Harish Rawat.

India and Kyrgyzstan have signed six Memoranda of Understanding (MoU)/ Agreements including in the fields of tourism, agriculture and food industry etc.

The Union Government has decided to set up a single permanent Tribunal to adjudicate all inter-State river water disputes.

• Anil Dhasmana appointed as new chief of Research and Analysis Wing
• Union Power Ministry to launch GARV-II Mobile App to monitor rural electrification programme
• World’s first Goat with superfine wool cloned in China

The Union AYUSH Ministry has launched Swasthya Raksha Programme to promote health and health education in villages.

The world̢۪s first cloned goat bearing superfine Cashmere wool was born in north China̢۪s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The Union Power Ministry is going to launch new mobile application GARV-II to provide real time data of all six lakh villages of the country.