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- National Commision for Backward Classes gets the constitutional status through 123rd Amendment.
- Banks Board Bureau (BBB) recommends names of CEOs for the PSBs to the union government, then the Appointment Committee of Cabinet (ACC) headed by the Prime Minister, approves and makes the appointment.
- Vigyan Prasar and Department of Science & Technology launched indiasceince.in .
- Rashmi is world's first Hindi speaking robot.
- Bangladesh shares longest border with India - 4096 km.
- Father of Indian Tea - Charles Alexander Bruce.
- Brahmaputra Study Centre, to study the Brahmaputra river was started at Gauhati University.
- National Centre for Ageing was inaugurated at AIIMS, Delhi.
- Danube is the secon largest river of Europe after Volga. Danube flows through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine and then drains into Black sea.
- RIMPAC, the Rim of Pacific Exercise is the world's largest international maratime exercise admisterd by the US Navy. It is conducted bienneally in June- July in even years from Honolulu(capital and largest city of Hawai islands. 22 countries participated in 2014 exercise.
- India becomes third Asian country to get STA 1(Strategic Trade Authorization) status from the US after Japan and Korea. This enables India to purchase advanced arms from the USA.