Maharashtra became the first state in India to develop a website-based Migration Tracking System (MTS) application to track the movement of migrant workers through individual unique identity numbers.
An Indian-Origin Politician, Councillor Mohinder K Midha from the UK's Opposition Labour Party has been elected mayor of the Ealing Council in West London.
Anwar Hussain Sheikh, an official of the Government of India, has been appointed as the chairman of the World Trade Organization's Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade.