Secretary General of the bloc Zhang Ming said Varanasi, the holy city will be declared the first "Cultural and Tourism Capital" of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation for 2022-23.
President Ram Nath Kovind has paid tributes to Sant Kabir and inaugurated Sant Kabir Academy and Research Centre and Swadesh Darshan Yojana at Kabir Chaura Dham, Maghar, Uttar Pradesh.
19-year-old Jahnavi Dangeti has scripted history by becoming the youngest to complete the Analog Astronaut programme at the Analog Astronaut Training Centre (AATC) at Krakow in South Poland.