- 1. Four judges, including two who will retire later this month, were Sunday appointed as chief justices of high courts. Justice Sonia Giridhar Gokani, the senior-most judge of the Gujarat High Court, was appointed its chief justice. Once she takes oath, she will be the only woman chief justice of a high court at present. India has 25 high courts.
- 2. Dharanidhar Autonomous College, popularly known as DD College in the mineral-rich Keonjhar district, has finally been accorded University status by the state government
- 3. Justice S Abdul Nazeer has been appointed as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, a month after retiring from the Supreme Court. The incumbent, Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, has been shifted to Chhattisgarh.
- 4. The School and Mass Education (S&ME) department is fully prepared for the smooth conduct of Class X and XII examinations, department minister Samir Ranjan Dash said Sunday.
- 5. Upset over the appointment of a professional ‘junior’ as the chairperson of the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC), Justice Raghubir Dash has resigned as a member of the statutory panel.
- 6. Delhi LG VK Saxena has given his nod for convening the next session of the MCD House February 16 for election to the post of mayor, official sources said Sunday.
- 7. Twenty-two river cities from Uttar Pradesh will be a part of 'DHARA 2023', a first-of-its-kind two-day international conference being held in Maharashtra on strate.
- 8. Delhi Police has served a notice on Lokesh Sharma, the OSD to the Rajasthan chief minister, asking him to appear on Monday for questioning in a phonetapping case going back to the July 2020 political crisis.
- 9. The merger of 7 subsidiary companies with Tata Steel is expected to be completed in 2023-24 fiscal year, its CEO and managing director TV Narendran said.
- 10.Senior Indian Police Service officer Rashmi Shukla and two other IPS officers of the Maharashtra cadre have been promoted to the rank of Director General of Police (DGP) by the Union government's Cabinet Appointments Committee, an official said.
- 11.Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been replaced by Ramesh Bais as the new governor of Maharashtra. He was appointed the Governor of Maharashtra in September 2019..
- 12.The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday two pleas on the issue of alleged delay by the Centre in clearing names recommended by the Collegium for appointment of judges to the top court and the high courts.
- 13.India's first "frozen-lake marathon" at Ladakh's Pangong Tso at a height of 13,862 feet will be held on February 20 and the army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have been roped in to implement a "proper action plan" for the event.
- 14.Manipur Governor La Ganesan has been appointed as the next Governor of the poll-bound state of Nagaland, a press communique from the President's Secretariat stated on Sunday
- 15.Justice Satrughana Pujahari has been appointed as chairman of the state human rights commission on February 9. Justice Raghubir Dash was already a member of the commission.
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