Child marriage became illegal in the Philippines as a law banning the practice took effect in a country where one in six girls enters wedlock before the age of 18.
India's first innovation centre for graphene is set to come up in Thrissur, Kerala. This will be the first graphene Research and Development (R&D) incubation centre in India.
The state government of Karnataka has set up India's first AVGC Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru. AVCG stands for Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics.
Jahnavi Dangeti, a young girl from Andhra Pradesh, has just completed NASA's International Air and Space Program at the Kennedy Space Centre in Alabama, US, making her the first Indian to accomplish this feat.