Former Punjab top cop K.P.S. Gill, who is credited with having played a big role in eliminating terrorism from Punjab, died.

IFFCO's joint MD Rakesh Kapur has been elected as the Chairman of International Fertilizer Association (IFA).

PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of AIIMS, Guwahati, Assam.

PM Narendra Modi inaugurated India's longest bridge, the 'Dhola-Sadiya Bridge', in Assam. The bridge is 9.15 km long.

NASSCOM has formed an exclusive SME Council for the first time and elected Kamal Agarwal as the chairman of its first SME Council.

HDFC Ltd is the only Indian company to be named among the top 10 consumer financial services companies in the world. American Express claimed first position.

According to 'TripAdvisor, Taj Mahal has been ranked third in the list of top landmarks. Angkor Wat in Cambodia is on the top spot.

Nepali PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) resigned honouring a power-sharing agreement between his party and the ruling Nepali Congress party.

Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin won the International Cricketer of the Year award at the CEAT Cricket Rating International Awards 2017.

Mumbai has been ranked the world's second most densely populated city with 31,700 people per sq km, by the World Economic Forum (WEF).