Hughes Communications India (HCI) in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) officially launched India's first high throughput satellite (HTS) broadband internet service.
India has for the first time referred to what it called "the militarization of the Taiwan Strait", marking a rare instance of New Delhi appearing to comment on China's actions towards Taiwan.
India's top oil and gas producer ONGC got a record third interim chairman in Rajesh Kumar Srivastava as the government has not made a full-time appointment yet.