The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has plans to launch 28 foreign satellites over the next three years. These 28 satellites will be a mix of nano, micro and normal satellites. These will be stand-alone satellites or may accompany one of the ISRO satellite launches. This announcement comes after the successful launch of five British satellites by ISRO on 10 July.

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On the World Population Day on 11 July, India recorded a population of 127,42,39,769. Growing at a rate of 1.6 per cent a year, this could make the country the most populous in the world by 2050. The Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh or National Population Stabilisation Fund (NPSF), an autonomous body under the Union health ministry says that Indians constitute 17.25 per cent of the global population. The NPSF has raised concerns about over-population and has noted that if the present rate of growth persists, India would have 1.63 billion people and overtake China by 2050. At 1.21 billion, India's current population is almost equal to the combined population of the US, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Japan.

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Addressing a meeting of Chief Ministers of the North-East region, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has asked the chief ministers to conduct an audit for deployment of central forces in their states. He said that insurgency is at an all-time low in the region but expressed concern over the situation on the India-Myanmar border. Singh said: "Of late, the India-Myanmar border has become more active as there are reports of movement of insurgents, weapons and drugs." He also urged the CMs to improve policing in their states and provide land for border fencing on an urgent basis. Singh added that the region had a huge stockpile of illegal firearms which were smuggled in from across the border and sold in India.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has termed terrorism and and climate change as the biggest problems the world faces and said that Mahatma Gandhi's life and ideals are a way out of these problems. Modi was speaking at Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. He unveiled a bust of Gandhi and also inaugurated a traditional medicine and yoga centre. Modi said that yoga helps people live in sync with nature and connects the mind, body, soul and intellect. Modi, who is on a eight-nation tour to Central Asia and Russia, arrived here after attending the BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summits. After Turkmenistan, he will visit Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Sania Mirza of India and Martina Hingis of Switzerland celebrate with the trophy after winning the Final Of The Ladies' Doubles of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships in England. Photo: Julian Finney/Getty Images

Sania Mirza became India's first women's doubles Grand Slam winner as she won the Wimbledon title with Swiss partner Martina Hingis after a well-fought 2-hour 47-minute battle. The two overpowered the second-seeded Russian duo of Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 5-7, 7-6, 7-5, clinching the match in a thrilling final. Sania had become India's first woman player to win a Grand Slam when she won the Australian Open with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi in 2009. Later, she also won the French Open in 2012 with Bhupathi and the US Open in 2014 with Bruno Soares.