Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has secured a fourth term with a landslide victory.
Hasina's ruling Awami League party and its allies won 288 seats in the 300-seat parliament, and the main opposition secured only six seats.
Iraq Hinted at Bigger Role in Syria
Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said that top security officials from Baghdad had met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, and hinted at a bigger Iraqi role fighting Islamic State militants as U.S. troops withdraw from Syria.
Abdul Mahdi said Iraq sought to move beyond its current arrangement with Syria - under which it launches air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syrian territory - but did not got into more details.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced renaming of three islands of Andaman and Nicobar archipelago as a tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
The Ross Island was renamed as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep, the Neil Island as Shaheed Dweep and the Havelock Island as Swaraj Dweep.
All the three islands are major tourist spots.
Fuel for Nuclear Plants
A stockpile of 15,000 tonnes of uranium is required for achieving supply security of fuel for nuclear plants in the country, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has told a parliamentary panel.
The panel report, which was tabled before the Lok Sabha in the on-going Parliament session, also recommended that necessary steps should be taken to ensure new uranium mines are opened as soon as possible to reduce the dependance on the imported uranium.
Currently, a major portion of domestic production of uranium comes from the Jaduguda mines of Jharkhand.
Apart from Jaduguda, uranium reserves are available in Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
The government appointed Sudhir Bhargava as the new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) along with four new Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission which had been functioning with just three of them as against a sanctioned strength of 11, including the Chief Information Commissioner.
Ban on Opening of New Engineering Institutes Lifted
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has lifted the ban on opening of new engineering institutes in six states, including Maharashtra, for the coming academic year (2019-20).
The ban was introduced in 2018-19 as a stop-gap solution to tackle vacant seats.