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.
Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner by the President of India. He will take charge of the office.
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.
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.