The Council of the European Union approved inviting the United States, Canada and Norway to participate in the bloc's Permanent Structured Cooperation defense initiative.
The senior most communist leader of Kerala KR Gouri Amma, who was the second longest, serving MLA in the Legislative Assembly, has passed away due to age-related ailments.
Arzan Nagwaswalla was not even born when Farokh Engineer the last Parsi cricketer to have featured in the India men's team played his final Test for the country in 1975.