The Press Information Bureau was established in June 1919. In 1941, J. Natrajan became the first Indian to be head the Bureau as Principal Information Officer. The organisation's name was changed to the Press Information Bureau in 1946.
India's mining major NMDC in association with FICCI organised a conference on the Indian minerals and metal industry on the theme 'Transition Towards 2030 & Vision 2047' in New Delhi.