The three-week 'Pitch Black' exercise, being hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The Indian Air Force, with its four Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jets and two C-17 heavy-lift aircraft, joined the 'Pitch Black' exercise.
Delhi-based Mangalnam Swaminathan Foundation has announced a pension scheme for the first time in the country for the victims of political violence in Kerala.
Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Jitendra Singh has launched India's first saline water lantern, 'Roshini', which uses seawater to power Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps.
China launched the second of three modules to its permanent space station, in one of the final missions needed to complete the orbiting outpost by year's end.