The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet has decided to provide ‘Jal Rakshaks’ a monthly honorarium of Rs 2,500 and increase the amount for Asha workers to Rs 1,000.

Tripura became the first state in the country to set up family welfare district committees to deal with the issue of fake and biased complaints by women against their husbands, in-laws and husband’s relatives.

Foreign ministers of India, US and Japan, namely Sushma Swaraj, Rex Tillerson and Taro Kono, had a trilateral meeting in New York on the sidelines of 72nd annual session of the UN General Assembly to give momentum to their cooperation, amid China flexing its muscles in the region.

A well-equipped skill city with a capacity of 10 thousand training seats will be set up in Assam. A Singapore based premier institute will support the state government for this initiative.

Indian has won total 4 medals including one gold, two silver and one bronze medal through track and field athletes on the third day of fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, in Ashgabat.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) won the “Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar” for the year 2016-17 in the category of ‘B’ region for autonomous bodies and boards, for its excellent implementation of the Official Language.

The Centre exempted import duty on sports items and a wide range of goods for the upcoming FIFA U-17 World Cup. All sports goods, sports equipment and sports requisites will be exempt from the whole of the duty of customs leviable subject to certain conditions.

The Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski appointed Mercedes Araoz as new Prime Minister. He is the former Economy Minister of the country. He replaced Fernando Zavala who lost vote of confidence by lawmakers.

India bagged one gold, four silver, and four bronze medals at the Ahmet Comert Boxing Championships for youth women boxers in Istanbul, Turkey. Soniya (48kg) gave India the lone gold medal by defeating Kazakhstan’s Zhazira Urakabeva in her summit clash.

India bagged total 9 medals including one gold, four silver, and four bronze medals at the Ahmet Comert Boxing Championships for youth women boxers in Istanbul, Turkey