1. L. Ganeshan appointed as new governor of Manipur.

2. India signed an Agreement with Russia to procure AK-103 assault rifles.


3. Ismail Sabri Yakub became new Prime minister of Malaysia.

4. Government of J&K launched Karkhandar scheme to revive Kashmiri handicrafts.  It is for giving a fresh impetus to the training in handicraft sector in UT.

5. Small Business loan initiative launched in India by Facebook. The goal of the initiative is to make business loans more easily accessible to small businesses, and reduce the credit gap within India’s MSME sector. Indifi is the first lending partner that Facebook has tied up with and the programme is built with the potential to bring more partners on board.

6. Uttarakhand's NarayanKoti Temple is now under center's adopt a heritage scheme. 

About NarayanKoti - Narayana Koti is a group of temples dedicated to Lakshmi Narayana which is associated with Pandavas. The mention of this temple group is also found in Kedarkhand. The temple group is said to have been built before the 9th century AD. From time to time, due to the impact of disasters and lack of care, now there are only 29 temples, whereas in the past there were 360 temples in groups.



7. India's 'highest' herbal park opens at 11,000 feet. The main aim of the herbal park, is to “conserve various medicinally and culturally important alpine species, and facilitate a study on the propagation of these species, as well as their ecology.”