G. Silambarasan, a Thavil artiste, has been awarded the World Record Award by the ‘Indian World Records’ for documenting on video how to handle 108 rhythms that are part of Carnatic music.
Retired IAS Rajiv Kumar was appointed as election commissioner in place of Ashok Lavasa who resigned.
Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year.
In 2020, EOD lands on August 22 more than three weeks later than 2019, due to coronavirus induced lockdowns around the world.