The goal of the National Urban Housing & Habitat Policy 2007 is to provide an affordable housing to the urban people.

Chennai will become a smoke -free city by 2010 and tamil Nadu a smoke free state by 2010.

Television Journalist Karan Thappar was awarded the best current affairs Presenter in Asia .Umesh Chandra sarangi is the new chairman of NABARD.

The rashtriya Swasthya Bima yojana launched on October 1, 2007, becomes operational.The central government decides to form a strategic reserves of five million tonnes of foodgrains, in addition to the buffer stock, to meet the emergency situations.Vice president Hamid Ansari is awarded an honorary degree by the prestigious Al- Fabari Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.