- Bhubaneswar
Ratikanta Pradhan, 32, a commercial tax officer in Paradip, becoming Aishwarya Rutupurna Pradhan after the SC recognised transgenders
- Calcutta
Singer-turned-BJP politician and Union minister Babul Supriyo singing at a TMC event in Asansol
- Hyderabad
V.V.S. Laxman’s 281 against Australia at Eden Gardens in 2001 being voted the best Test knock of the last half-century
- New Delhi
Former AIIMS chief vigilance officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi donating his Magsaysay Award prize money of Rs 19 lakh to the PM’s relief fund
- Los Angeles
Bhakti without Borders, an album of bhajans dedicated to Lord Krishna and sung by 11 singers, one of them an Indian, being nominated for 58th Grammy Awards
- London
Scientists adding ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium, ununoctium to the periodic table of elements, thus completing its 7th row
- Berlin
Volkswagen dropping its 2007 slogan ‘Das Auto’ (The Car) from its ads following the emissions scandal
