INDIA
– India flight-tests Anti-Tank Guided Missile HELINA fired from Advanced Light Helicopter at high-altitude range
– PM Modi awarded first-ever Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award by Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Smruti Pratishthan
– Tamil Nadu Assembly passes resolution urging Centre to withdraw CUET (Common University Entrance Test) for admission to courses offered by central varsities
– Gujarat: Six workers killed in blast at chemical factory in Bharuch
– Veteran Bollywood character actor and screenwriter Shiv Kumar Subramaniam dies
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– NITI Aayog CEO releases State Energy and Climate Index (SECI); Gujarat tops among large states, Goa among small states
– Shares of Veranda Learning Solutions list at premium to issue price after 200-crore initial public offering (IPO)
– Ruchi Soya to change the name of the company to Patanjali Foods
WORLD
– Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shehbaz Sharif elected new PM of Pakistan by country’s lower house of parliament (National Assembly)
– Russia claims to have destroyed S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems supplied to Ukraine by a European country
– ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ author Jack Higgins dies at 92
