Rajasthan's Sikar is the top performer, followed by Jhunjhunu and Jaipur in the Union government's index for performance of the school education system at the district level.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has inaugurated T-Hub 2.0, the world's biggest innovation campus, with an aim "to incubate the next generation of start-ups" that could become as strong pillars of the country's economy.
The Japanese government announced its decision to honour former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with the country's highest decoration "the Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum" posthumously.