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.

World̢۪s first White Tiger Safari was inaugurated at Mukundpur in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh. It was inaugurated and opened to public by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Tran Dai Quang has sworn in as the ninth President of Vietnam after he was elected by country̢۪s National Assembly. He succeeds Truong Tan Sang and shall have term of five years.

Renowned Latin jazz saxophonist Leandro Gato Barbieri passed away in New York, US due to pneumonia. He was 83.

Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed (56) took oath as the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, bringing to an end the three-month Governor̢۪s Rule in the state.

India and Saudi Arabia have singed five agreements to boost the bilateral cooperation between the two nations. The agreements were signed during the two day official visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Saudi Arabia in Riyadh.

• PM Narendra Modi conferred Saudi Arabia’s highest civilian honour
• Indian Scientists develop biopolymer for water purification
• IT dept launches tax calculator; e-filing begins this week