The 25th meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) was held, under the Chairpersonship of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day came first from Bangladesh. The idea was approved at the 1999 UNESCO General Conference. The day has been observed every year since the year 2000.
The biography of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore titled "A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore's Pioneering Work in Rural Construction", written by historian and Tagore biographer Uma Das Gupta has been released.