Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Friday called for turning the "potential asset" of the country's vast young population into an "actual asset", otherwise it would be a "missed opportunity".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday visited former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to enquire about his health.

Google on Friday dedicated a Doodle in honour of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, regarded as the chief architect of Indian statistical system as well as father of statistical science in India.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has his critics. And they have taken potshots at some of his policy decisions and his penchant for getting historical facts wrong.

Data of money deposited by Indians in Swiss banks will be available to the government under an agreement signed with Switzerland for automatic exchange of information, Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday.

The Board of Directors of ICICI Bank has approved the appointment of Girish Chandra Chaturvedi as non-executive part-time Chairman effective from July 1, 2018 subject to regulatory approvals, in the vacancy caused by cessation of term of M.K. Sharma (Independent Director & Chairman).

Two soldiers were injured in a militant attack on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, police said.

"The militants hurled a grenade and then fired at a patrolling party of 44 Rashtriya Rifles in Ahgam village. The injured soldiers were shifted to a hospital," police sources said.

 Four security personnel deployed at former Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker and BJP Khuti MP Karia Munda's house, who were kidnapped by tribals in Jharkhand on Wednesday, were rescued on Friday, police said.