International
- US defence secretary Mark Esper told on Wednesday that US is ready to consider an agreement with the Taliban after they have agreed to reduce violence across the war torn Afghanistan.
- Indian origin Suella Braverman has been sworn in as UK's Attorney General.
- WHO has alarmed the governments worldwideb by saying that the coronavirus cases are emerging faster outside China.
National
- Kerala HC bans all forms of agitation by student groups in school and college campuses.
- The Delhi High Court lauds police for prompty evacuating the injured from northeast Delhi area where communal violence has erupted over the amended citizenship law.
Regional
- PepsiCo India has proposed to set up a Rs 400 crore greenfield project for manufacturing Lays potato chips and Kurkure corn puffs in Assam.
- Based on the seizure report of cattle by BSF on Bangladesh border,it has been calculated that there was a spurt in cattle smuggling through Assam to the neighboring country.
- Nyokum Yullo,a major festival of Nyishi community of Arunachal Pradesh was celebrated yesterday.
International
- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, ousted by the military in 2011, has died in Cairo at the age of 91.
- Rehabilitated former members of the now defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) militant group have formed a new political party.
- The Canada government has put forward a bill to make medically assisted death available to people who are terminally ill.
- Iran's Deputy Health Minister has been infected with the new coronavirus.
National
- The pleas relating to the northeast Delhi violence,which has claimed 10 lives, reached the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court on Tuesday and will be heard today.
- Elections to 55 Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant in April will be held on March 26, the Election Commission ammounced on Tuesday.
- The Delhi High Court has extended the stay on vacation of employees' quarters of the Nagaon and Cachar paper mills in Assam till March 25.
Regional
- The high level committee on implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord submitted its report to Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday.
- Public sector giant Indian 0il has invested Rs 400 crore in the NE region as expenditure for transition to BS VI fuel.
- Arunachal Pradesh Civil Aviation Minister Nakap Talo has urged the Airport Authority of India to complete Itanagar airport in time.
International
- Malayasian PM Mahathir Mohamad resigned on Monday in a shock move after his political allies sought to bring down the government.
- India has made a formal request for the return of a 15th century bronze idol of a Tamil saint believed to be stolen from a Tamil Nadu temple and acquired by a UK museum.
- South Korea has become the biggest coronavirus affected country outside China.
National
- PM Narendra Modi has called US President Donald Trump a "special friend" of India and said his visit to this country has created a new history in Indo-US relations.
- Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board on Monday said that it will build a mosque as well as an Indo-Islamic research centre,a hospital and a library on the five acre land allotted to it following the Supreme Court's Ayodhya verdict.
- Schools have been reopened across the Kashmir valley yesterday after remaining shut since August last year due to situation following abrogation of Article 370.
Regional
- Senior journalist and noted film critic Bitopan Borborah receives Parag Das Journalism Award 2020.
- Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma promises government support to promote the monoliths of Mawkyrduk in South West Khasi Hills resembling the Stonehenge of the United Kingdom.
International
- A magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Iran on Sunday killed at least 8 people in neighbouring Turkey.
- Egypt state prosecutor decided to try a doctor for death of a 12 year old girl following genital mutilation operation.
- Pakistan shuts border with Iran temporarily to counter coronavirus threat declaring it a medical emergency.
National
- US President Donald Trump is on India tour from today.
- The Aam Aadmi Party is to contest panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh.
Regional
- The All India Radio(AIR),Dibrugarh station has been fully digitalised.
- Draught has effected the agricultural yield in Manipur as cultivation could not be taken up on a huge extent of land.
- Arunachal Pradesh is preparing to host a bird festival from March 22 at Rupa and the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in West Kameng district.
Sports
- Ronaldo marks 1,000th game with record-equalling goal.
International
- The WHO has warned that African health systems would be ill equiped to deal with deadly coronavirus.
- Pakistan government would confer honorary citizenship to former West Indian captain Darren Sammy for his role in bringing international cricket back to the country.
- President Donald Trump will raise religious freedom issue with Indian PM Narendra Modi during his visit to India next week,said the White House.
National
- China is delaying grant of clearance to India's proposal to send?an Indian Air Force plane to carry relief material to coronavirus effected people in Wuhan,told official sources.
Regional
- The report on implementation of clause 6 of the Assam Accord will be handed over to Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal in presence 0f the entire cabinet on February 25.
- Assam government is going to formally launch its Asom Darshan scheme on February 24.
- The Railway Board chairman VK Yadav said that much awaited Jiribam-Imphal railway project would likely to be completed by March 2022.
- The theme song of Kaziranga National Park 'Kaziranga Kaziranga' composed and sung by Mridusmita Gogoi was launched recently.
International
- More than 6,000 saints arrive in Kathmandu to offer prayers in famous Pashupatinath Temple for Mahashivratri.
- Myanmar President U Win Myint is to visit India between February 26 and 29.
- Global terror financing watchdog FATF (Financial Action Task Force) on Friday decided continuation of Pakistan in the 'Grey List'.
National
- Central Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday asked states to keep high vigil against the novel coronavirus.
- Centre,Tamil Nadu both have agreed to the stand that the Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts can not be set free.
- The sacred Kedarnath temple is to be reopened for devotees on April 29.
- Daughter Ivanka,son-in-law Jared is going to accompany US President Donald Trump during his visit to India.
- India's organic food market is growing at a rate of 17 percent per annum and has the potential to grow faster,said Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday.
Regional
- The quantum of reservation reportedly suggested by the Biplab Sarma Committee on Clause 6 (Assam accord) has emerged as a major hitch for the centre.
- 678 will be introduced under the urbanisation scheme of ASTC(Assam State Transport Corporation) in order to provide timely transportation facilities in the state.
- Nagaland Lokayukta Justice Uma Nath Singh has ordered a preliminary inquiry against Deputy CM Y Patton in corruption charges.
Sports
- PM Narendra Modi will launch the first ever Khelo India University games at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Cuttack,Orissa on Saturday.
International
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Thursday in a visit focused primarily on discussing shared security concerns about regional rival Iran.
National
- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) team probing the police breakdown in Jamia Millia Islamia has completed its probe.
- The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea seeking to define the word 'minority' and laying of guidelines to accord minority status based on State-wise population of a particular community.
- India rejects China objection to Shah visit to Arunachal.Shah assured the people of the state that no one can abrogate the Article 371 that grants some special provisions to the NE states.
- India and US are eyeing to sign around five pacts during Trump's visit.
Regional
- Representatives of various organisations of the country will start a journey from Rajghat,New Delhi to Goalpara on February 23 to register protest against setting up of detention camps.
- Dr Bhabendra Nath Saikia Memorial Award was conferred on poetress Monika Das on Thursday.
- Biswanath College gets citation as member of UN Academic Impact (UNAI) .
- First convocation of Assam Women's University,Rowriah is to be held on February 25.
Sports
- Divya Kakran on Thursday became only the second Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Junior Championships.
International
- Mohammad Asraf Ghani has secured a second term as President of Afghanistan.
- Intel Labs in collaboration with QuTech has unveiled details about its first cryogenic quantum control chip called "Horse Ridge".
National
- Indo-US trade deal is unlikely during Trump's visit to Delhi as the US President has complained that India has not treated US "very well" on the trade front.
- Suspected Maoist rebels blew up a school building in Bihar's Gaya district on Wednesday.
- Motera cricket stadium,Ahmedabad is now officially ready to host US President Donald Trump.
- Two Naxals were killed in separate encounters in Chattisgarh on Wednesday.
Regional
- Titabor has become Assam's first zero waste town.
- Ali Aye Ligang,the festival celebrating the commencement of the agrarian season of the Mising community was celebrated centrally at historic Ghunasuti on Wednesday.
- Tripura's surplus hydrocarbon will be transported to the other North Eastern states or the mainland:said ONGC CMD.
Sports
- India has been awarded the hosting rights of 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup (Football).
International
- A mysterious toxic gas has killed at least 14 people and sickened several others in Karachi,Pakistan.
- Singapore unveiled $4.6 billion package to deal with the impact 0f the deadly coronavirus outbreak which has battered the city state's economy.
- The EU on Tuesday put Panama back on its blacklist of tax havens after deciding the country has not done enough to meet global transparency standards.
- UN chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday visited the Kartarpur gurdwara in Pakistan's Narowal district.
National
- The Central government has renamed the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) as Manohar Parrikar Institute.
- A report on Indian birds has claimed that over 50 percent of the 867 species studied exhibit a population decline in the long run.
Regional
- The Assam Public Works(APW) has filed yet another petition in the Supreme Court pleading that the NRC be put on hold till disposal of the two petitions by the constitutional bench.
- The drive against the errant city buses in Guwahati by the transport department continues leading commuters to bear the brunt.
Sports
- Navi Mumbai will host the final of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup on November 21 for which five host cities Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar,Guwahati,Kolkata and Navi Mumbai were unveiled by the organising committee.
- India's Sachin Tendulkar receives best Laureus sporting moment award in the Laureus World Sports Awards.
International
- The UAE said on Monday thatit has issued a license for a reactor at its Barakah nuclear power plant,the first in the Arab world.
- UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday called on the global community to step up efforts to help bring peace in war torn Afghanistan.
National
- Calling for an end to gender bias in the armed forces,the Supreme Court on Monday opened the way for women in command positions in the Army.
- Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) on Monday filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court demanding introduction of the Inner Line Permit(ILP) system in the state.
- India,which is hosting the 13th Conference of Paris (CoP) to the Convention of Migratory Species and Wild Animals (CMS),officially took over its presidency on Monday for the next three years.
- A British MP,Debbie Abrahams (Labour Party), critical of India's move to withdraw J & K's special status was denied entry into India on Monday and deported to Dubai.
- As part of its commitment towards environmental sustainability,the country's largest lender,State Bank of India (SBI) has taken up a unique initiative by creating two distinctive 12.5 foot tall artworks named 'Manasvi' and 'Tapasvi'.
Regional
- 13th Assam Yoga Mahotsava 2019-2020 has begun at Bhogeswari Phookan Indoor Stadium,Dispur on Sunday.
- The Guwahati High Court has put on hold the ongoing demolition/construction works around the historic Joorpukhuri near the revered Ugratara temple.
- Plans are on to raise a botanical garden on the old Guwahati district Central Jail land at Fancy Bazar.
Sports
- Tokyo 2020 organisers on Monday rolled out the motto for this year's Olympics,"United by Emotion".
International
- Multiple rockets hit an Iraqi base hosting American troups near the US embassy on Sunday.
- South Sudan rebels rejected a government peace offer to return to a system of 10 states,dashing hopesof ending a 6 year war thathas left 380,000 dead.
National
- After earning distinction of being India's cleanest city in several Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan surveys,Indore aims curb noise pollutionb to make it the most silent city as well.
- Arvind Kejriwal said that he wants to work in coordination with the Central government to make Delhi a numberone city.
- Ruling out any rethink on decisions on CAA and Article 370,PM Modi asserted that his governmentwill remain firm despite pressure from all sides.
- A strategic project to erect an anti-cut 'steel fence' along the Indo-Bangladesh border to bringdown cross border crimes still awaits nod from the neighboring country.
- Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy sweeps as many as 13 awards in various categories including the best director,best actor and best actress awards in recently conducted Filmfare Awards.
Regional
- Centre wants forest,coal India officers' names from 2003 onwards employed in the areas of upper Assam where illegal coal mining continues with State government playing a mute spectator of the incidents.
- Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal unveiled a life-size statue of Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezborua at the Assam house complex located at Russel Street in Kolkata.
- Tripura is all set to collect the necessary data to prepare for National Population Register(NPR).
Sports
- NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced that the All Star Game MVP award will now be called the Kobe Bryant Award.
- The Twitter accounts of Olympics and FC Barcelona have been hacked by a group called OurMine.
International
- In quashing the idea of married priests in the Amazon,Pope Francis has appeased traditionalists while disappointing progressives who had hoped for a historic turning point in the Catholic Church.
- Sri Lanka has taken a 'strong objection' to the US imposing a travel ban on its Army Chief Shavendra Silva.
- WHO experts are set to arrive at Beijing to assist China to contain the coronavirus outbreak. China has begun to quarantine large quantity of bank notes in the effected areas in an effort to contain the disease.
National
- Three engineering students from Kashmir have been held under sedition charges in Hubballi district of Karnataka.
- The J&K administration has booked former IAS officer turned politician Shah Faisal under the controversial Public Safety Act.
- Ramlila Maidan in Delhi is spruced up for swearing-in ceremony of Kejriwal; 'Dhanyavaad Dilli' banners put up.
Regional
- A plan is afoot to translocate six tigers from Assam, preferably from Kaziranga national park, to Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal to help regenerate it's tiger population.
- ABSU(All Bodo Students' Union) suspends all agitation programmes indefinitely.
- Lui-Ngai-Ni,a seed sowing festival of the Nagas of Manipur was celebrated under the theme 'oneness through culture' at Ukhrul, Manipur.
Sports
- Srinivasa Gowda, a Kambala jockey from Moodabidri in Karnataka has been called for trials by Sports Ministry after he set a new record as the fastest runner in the history of the traditional sport of the coastal region.
International
- The US is ready to supply oil and gas to energy-hungry India as there is a huge potential for bilateral cooperation, a top White House official said ahead of President Trump's maiden visit to India.
- NATO will resume its training mission in Iraq soon, the alliance's top military commander said on Friday.
- Researchers have revealed that one in three species of plants and animals could face extinction by 2070 due to climate change.
National
- The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and the Assam government to file a fresh report regarding the status of release of Bangladeshi migrants in detention centres.
- The European Union calls for withdrawal of restrictions in J&K.
- Ramayana Express, with Ramayana themed interiors and bhajans playing on board, which will take pilgrims to locations associated with Lord Ram is likely to be launched by March by Indian Railways.
Regional
- Eastern Army Commander Lt Anil Chauhan said on Friday that insurgency is on a decline in the North-East.
- Railway Board Chairman VK Yadav said that rail projects in NE are to be completed by 2023.
- Filmfare Awards function is to be hosted at Guwahati today, function being held outside Mumbai for the first time.
Sports
- India's Koneru Humpy defeated former world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia in Sixth round of the Cairns cup chess tournament.
