'Spices Board' is a regulatory and export promotion agency of Spices, working under the aegis of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It is headquartered in Kochi, Kerala.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 11 new government medical colleges and a new campus of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Tamil Nadu via video conferencing.
Chairman of Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Vinay Kumar Saxena has launched the country's first mobile honey processing van in Sirora village, Ghaziabad.
The Kerala Government formed a three-member commission headed by Justice K Hema (retired), former bureaucrat KB Valsalakumari and veteran actress Sharada as members. The commission was formed to scrutinise problems faced by women in the Malayalam film industry.