Retired Supreme Court judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose is appointed as the first Lokpal of India by a committee consisting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Speaker of the Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan on 23 March 2019 whereas the members are appointed w.e.f 27 March 2019.

The city of Chandigarh is the capital of two Indian states.It is the shared capital city of both Punjab and Haryana. Chandigarh is located about 165 miles (265 km) north of New Delhi; the state of Haryana bounds the territory on the east and Punjab on all other sides.

Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Colombian President John Manual Santos for his resolute efforts to bring the countries more than 50 years long Civil War to an end. He is the second Colombian to win Nobel Prize after Gabriel Garcia Marquez who won the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature.