Defence, National Security and Terrorism
Bilateral naval drill ‘Zayed Talwar’
- Two Indian Navy ships, INS Visakhapatnam and INS Trikand, conducted a bilateral naval maritime partnership exercise with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Navy under the bilateral exercise named ‘Zayed Talwar’.
Eminent Persons
Bindeshwar Pathak
- Bindeshwar Pathak, Sulabh International founder, Padma Bhushan recipient, and social worker, died.
- Credited with bringing in the revolutionary Sulabh Complex public toilet system to India, which contributed significantly to reducing open-defecation and manual scavenging.
- Mr. Pathak had founded Sulabh International Social Services Organisation in 1970 to introduce a public toilet system in India that would go on to become a feature of hundreds of towns.
Note
- He was given the Padma Bhushan in 1991 for social work and he later became an ambassador for the government’s Swachh Bharat Mission.
- The Sulabh International organication was given the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2016, jointly with the Akshaya Patra Foundation.
