India has been ranked 138th out of 180 countries in the 2018 World Press Freedom index, which is compiled by reporters without borders.  

The E-waybill system is all set to be introduced from April 1 in India. The E-waybill is for movement of goods which can be generated on the E-waybill Portal, maintained by GST Network.

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.

On 1 January 2015 a Cabinet resolution was passed to replace the Planning Commission with the newly formed NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). The first meeting of NITI Aayog was chaired by Narendra Modi on 8 February 2015.

Sir Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh, CIE, ICS was an Indian civil servant and the first Indian to be appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943 by the British Raj authorities. He subsequently served as the Finance Minister in the Union Cabinet (1950–1956).

Akashay Kumar got the Best Actor award at the 64th National Film Awards.

Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organization has celebrated World Tourism Day as international observances on September 27. This date was chosen as on that day in 1970, the Statutes of the UNWTO were adopted.

After the independence, rather on the day of independence (August 15, 1947), John Mathai was sworn in as the first Railway Minister of independent India. He went on to serve in Nehru's cabinet till September 22, 1948. He was replaced by N Gopalaswami in 1948 and Gopalaswami was followed by Lal Bahadur Shastri, who later became the Prime Minister of India. Till date, there have been 39 Railway Ministers in India.

France beat Croatia in the FIFA final,2018.

Charaka was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India. He is known for authoring the medical treatise, the Charaka Samhita and also known as ‘Father of Ayurveda’.