A MoU between the Coffee Board and ISRO has been signed with regard to breeding climate-resilient varieties and assessing the carbon sequestration potential in coffee among others.
A book titled Gandhi and the Champaran Satyagraha: Select Readings, which has been edited by Jadavpur University Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das, has been released.
Union Minister of State for Science & Technology, Jitendra Singh inaugurated India's first Autonomous Navigation facility called TiHAN at the campus of IIT Hyderabad.