Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Corporate Affairs and also India's Governor for the New Development Bank (NDB) chaired the 7th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of NDB through a video conference in New Delhi, Delhi.
May 12 is being celebrated as International Nurses' Day across the world to honour the services of nurses. It is the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale.
The Asian Olympic Council has announced that the Asian Games 2022, to be held in Hangzhou, China in September, has been postponed to 2023 due to the rising COVID-19 cases in the country.