The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on multilingualism, co-sponsored by India, that mentioned the Hindi language for the first time.
The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau announced a proposed freeze on handgun ownership in Canada following the recent mass shootings in the United States.
The Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), a unit of the NCERT has been awarded the UNESCO's King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT in Education for the year 2021.