The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a loan agreement worth $2 million with the Indian Government to support the designing of climate-resilient urban infrastructure and strengthening institutional capacity and improving municipal resource mobilisation in Nagaland.
Former Chief Minister of Sikkim, BB Gurung, has passed away. He was 99. BB Gurung was the third chief minister of Sikkim and had the shortest term in the history of the Himalayan state.
At a time when the world is battling climate change and exploitation of animals, Ecuador, in South America, has made history by becoming the first country to recognise the legal rights of individual wild animals.