1. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated a grid-connected solar power plant of 16 MW capacity at the Ordinance Factory in Telangana’s Medak. He also dedicated a 9 MW capacity windmill project installed at Dammur in Karnataka.
2. Veteran filmmaker and former Union minister Dasari Narayana Rao died. He was 75.
3. President Pranab Mukherjee awarded Fujii Takeshi of Japan and Gabriela Nik Ilieva of US with the George Grearson Award for promoting Hindi language.
4. The Centre has nominated former Union minister Ram Shankar Katheria and national secretary of the BJPs SC Morcha L Murugan as the chairman and the vice- chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes respectively.
5. A V Girija Kumar has been appointed as Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Oriental Insurance Company Limited.
6. O P Prahladka took over as the new Chairman of Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH).
7. Star Sports, the sports broadcast arm of Star India, has launched “Star Sports Tamil,” the country’s first Tamil sports channel.
8. Indian captain Virat Kohli is the only Indian cricketer to feature in the top 10 of the ICC Players Rankings for ODIs as he managed to hold on to his third spot in the batsman’s chart.
9. Narendra Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Spain in nearly 30 years.
10. Only four Indians feature in ‘ESPN’s World Fame 100’, a list ranking the world’s 100 most famous athletes. Virat Kohli, ranked 13th, is followed by MS Dhoni at 15th place, while Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina are ranked 90th and 95th, respectively.
