The Odisha Government and the United Nations World Food Programme has joined hands to improve household food and nutritional security by strengthening the livelihood initiatives and reaching the thousands of state-supported Women's Self-Help Groups.
The Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya chaired a meeting in order to improve the availability of phosphatic fertilisers (DAP and NPK) and to reduce the dependence on imports by making India truly Aatmnirbhar in fertilisers.
The ISRO has announced that it is "putting extra work, extra hours" to achieve the launch target of the first uncrewed mission in December 2021 as a part of the human spaceflights programme 'Gaganyaan'.