❖ The author and economist Bibek Debroy, who had been the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council Chairman since 2017, passed away.

❖ He was also a member of the Niti Aayog, which had replaced the erstwhile Planning Commission.

❖ He had translated the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata into English.

❖ He served as director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS) between 1997 and 2005.