The World Bank has slashed its growth forecast for India for the current financial year to 7.5 percent, a hefty 1.2 percentage points down from its previous forecast of 8.7 percent.
The Karnataka government has launched 'Farmer Registration and Integrated Beneficiary Information System' or FRUITS software for Aadhaar-based, single-window registration for schemes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Centre for Brain Research and laid the Foundation Stone for Bagchi Parthasarathy Multispeciality Hospital at IISc Bengaluru.
Russia has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become India's second-largest oil supplier after Iraq as refiners buy post-war Russian crude in Ukraine at huge discounts.