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.

• Anand Sinha to replace Vinod Rai on IDFC Bank board
• GIPCL signs pact with SECI for solar projects
• IIT Madras researchers develop instrumentation for cancer treatment

Private sector lender IDFC Bank has appointed former Reserve Bank of India deputy governor Anand Sinha on its board as an independent director.

Gujarat Industries Power Company (GIPCL) entered into power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Solar Energy Corporation of India for solar power projects in Gujarat.

T.K.V Desikachar, son of Indian yoga master T.Krishnamacharya , passed away in Chennai. He was 78.

One of the treatment modalities for cancer is hyperthermia. This is a method by which the temperature of a region containing tumour cells is raised above normal levels. Exposing cells to elevate temperature leads to cytotoxicity.