- Former Union railway minister CK Jaffer Sharief passed away in Bengaluru. He was 85.
- Sharief, who was once a close confidant of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, had been elected to Parliament eight times.
- He was the Union Railway Minister between 1991 to 1995 for which he is remembered as it was during this period that Indian Railways comprehensively moved largely to broad gauge from meter gauge.
