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The Cabinet of Karnataka has agreed the creation of Vijayanagara district as the 31st District of Karnataka.

The Vijayanagara district will include Hampi, the capital of Vijayanagara empire.

Subhash C. Garg, a 1983 batch lAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed as the new the economic affairs secretary in the Union Finance Ministry. The post fell vacant after Shaktikanta Das retired on May 31, 2017. Currently, Tapan Ray, the corporate affairs secretary, has the additional charge of the economic affairs department. Prior to this appointment, Garg was Executive Director at World Bank for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka.

Jatindra Nath Das, also known as Jatin Das, was a revolutionary and Independence activist. He embraced death in Lahore jail after fasting for 64 days in 1929 at the age of 24 yrs.

Tripura, in a first-ever initiative, has started using plastic waste for the construction of roads.