- Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the leading international trade body.
- Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Aazad is on TIME's list of 100 "emerging leaders
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the convocation of Visva-Bharati University on Friday at 11 am via video conferencing.
- After Rajasthan, petrol price on Thursday crossed the ₹ 100 per litre mark in Madhya Pradesh after fuel rates were increased for the tenth day in a row.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the sixth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog on February 20 via video conferencing.
- The Congress government in Puducherry will face a test of strength on Monday, Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan said today, citing the opposition's stand that the ruling party no longer enjoyed a majority.
- The bypoll to the Karnataka Legislative Council seat which fell vacant due to the death of Council deputy speaker S L Dharmegowda will take place on March 15, the Election Commission said on Thursday.
- E Sreedharan, the legendary "Metro Man" of India, is set to join the BJP months ahead of polls in Kerala
- India will make up the biggest share of energy demand growth at 25% over the next two decades, as it overtakes the European Union as the world's third-biggest energy consumer by 2030.
- Senior Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that he communicated to state BJP chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass a year ago that he did not wish to contest the 2021 assembly election.
- Myanmar's generals came under increased diplomatic pressure Thursday over the coup that deposed Aung San Suu Kyi, as India joined the United States and other countries in calling for a restoration of democracy, and Britain and Canada announced sanctions against the junta.
- The budget session of the state legislature is scheduled to commence in Mumbai from March 1.
- The assembly resolution on Naga political issue was moved by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and seconded by Leader of Opposition T R Zeliang following a day-long discussion in the house Tuesday.
- A study by the International Energy Agency’s Clean Coal Centre (IEACCC) has stated that coal burning is responsible for heavy air pollution in India.
- The Prime Minister has laid the foundation stone of a Maharaja Suheldev memorial and the development work of Chittaura lake in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district.
- A group of palaeontologists have discovered fossils of coelacanth, a giant fish regarded as an iconic example of a “living fossil.”
- Five Chinese military officers and soldiers were killed in last year's Galwan Valley clash in eastern Ladakh with the Indian Army, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) officially acknowledged for the first time on Friday.
- Congress and the Left parties will hold a joint election rally on February 28 at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata.
- US President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday offered talks with Iran led by European allies and reversed two largely symbolic steps against Tehran imposed by Donald Trump, as it sought to salvage a nuclear deal on the brink of collapse.
- After seven months in space, NASA's Perseverance rover survived a nail-biting landing phase to touch down gently on the surface of Mars on Thursday, ready to embark on its mission to search for the signs of ancient microbial life.
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