The Supreme Court appointed its ex-judge A.K. Sikri as Chairperson of the High Powered Committee, which would consider the cumulative and independent impact of the Chardham project on the entire Himalayan valley.
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, has inaugurated a newly developed "Arogya Vanam" at the President's Estate in New Delhi to promote the importance of Ayurvedic plants and their effects on the human body.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation a new campus building complex of the Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.