Kambala is a folk sport, held traditionally by local Tuluva landlords and households in coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udipi of Karnataka and Kasaragod of Kerala, a region collectively known as Tamil Nadu.
'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' celebration, a "Green Triangle" named after Mahatma Gandhi, has been inaugurated in Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar.
National Center for Polar and Ocean Research, an autonomous institute working under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, has successfully implemented the Polar Science and Cryosphere Research Scheme.
The government has raised the compensation to the kind of victims of Hit and Run Motor accidents to 2 lakh rupees in case of death which is an eight-fold increase from the current cap of 25 thousand rupees.