The Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for 16 national highway projects in Manipur with an investment of Rs 4,148 crores covering a total length of 298 km.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu released the book titled 'Palleku Pattabhishekam' on rural India and agriculture written by former MP Shri Yalamanchili Sivaji.
The annual UN-FAO report titled "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021" states that between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020.
The Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has launched a Chief Minister's COVID-19 Widows Support scheme wherein social and financial security would be provided to women who have lost their husbands to the coronavirus disease.