A committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai was set up by the Uttarakhand government to prepare a draft of the Uniform Civil Code.
The autobiography "The Hero of Tiger Hill: Autobiography of a Param Vir", is about the inspiring story of Subedar Major (Honorary Captain) Yogendra Singh Yadav (Retd).
The National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC) announced that it had entered into an agreement with ICICI Bank for the creation of mobile applications and financial accounting software.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to provide a 2.9 billion dollar extended facility to Sri Lanka for a four-year period, with conditions on debt restructuring and action on corruption.