The legendary artist Ram Chandra Manjhi was an Indian Bhojpuri folk dancer and a theatre artist and was one of the members of Bhikhari Thakur's drama team.
Senior Indian Information Service officer Dr. Vasudha Gupta has been appointed as the Director General of the News Services Division of All India Radio.
The United States observed the 21st anniversary of the deadly 9/11 attacks. Patriot Day is marked every year on September 11 in memory of the people killed in the terror attacks.
The Reserve Bank of India is working on a new "fraud registry" - a reporting mechanism under which data shared by banks with RBI on fraudsters will enable the regulator to blacklist such callers.
A committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai was set up by the Uttarakhand government to prepare a draft of the Uniform Civil Code.