Leading UK-based academic, Dr. Swati Dhingra has been named as the first Indian-origin woman to be appointed as an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee.
Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent has bought a stake worth USD 264 million (about 2,060 crores) in Flipkart from its co-founder, Binny Bansal, through its European subsidiary.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Centre for Brain Research and laid the Foundation Stone for Bagchi Parthasarathy Multispeciality Hospital at IISc Bengaluru.
The meeting of the G20 summit, an influential grouping that brings together the world's major economies, will be held in Jammu and Kashmir next year in 2023.