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- India’s fastest indigenous train, Train 18 has been named as Vande Bharat Express and it will ply between Delhi and Varanasi. Train 18 is an indigenously developed world-class train by ICF Chennai under Make in India.
- Nepal’s Rohit Paudel became the youngest man to score a half-century at the age of 16 years and 146 days by surpassing Sachin’s record (16 years & 213 days).
- Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh has been reappointed as the Regional Director for World Health Organization South-East Asia, for a second five-year term.
- she is the first woman to become the Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia Region.
- According to IRCTC’s Trains Cleanliness Survey, The Southern Railway bagged number one position for cleanliness in the country.
- Duronto trains are the least clean among premium trains, while Tejas and Shatabdi trains are the cleanest.
- Tamil translation of Andrei Makine’s “La vie d’un homme inconnu” (The Life of an Unknown Man) has won the Romain Rolland Book Prize for literary translation.
- The book was translated by S R Kichenamourty.
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