Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be changing its company name to Meta during the company's Connect virtual reality conference.
An Indian-origin Canadian politician Anita Anand has been appointed as the new Defence Minister of the country in a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Beijing-based multilateral development bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Asian Development (ADB) will co-finance a USD 2 billion loan for India to procure COVID-19 vaccines under ADB's Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX).