A committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai was set up by the Uttarakhand government to prepare a draft of the Uniform Civil Code.
The United States observed the 21st anniversary of the deadly 9/11 attacks. Patriot Day is marked every year on September 11 in memory of the people killed in the terror attacks.
The Rajasthan government has launched an ambitious scheme to provide 100 days of employment to needy families in urban areas along the lines of the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA.