- Indian Hockey Team captain Manpreet Singh has become the first Indian to win FIH’s Men’s Player of the Year 2019 award. He beat Belgium’s Arthur van Dorren and Argentina’s Lucas Villa to win the honour.
- Indian-origin Rishi Sunak has been named as the new Finance Minister of the United Kingdom by PM Boris Johnson.
- Alok Sharma was named as the new UK Minister in charge of the crucial UN climate summit, ‘COP26′, which will hosted by Britain in November 2020. Sharma is also the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.
- India and Portugal exchanged 7 MoUs on February 14, 2020 to expand cooperation in areas such as industrial and intellectual property rights, maritime transport, port development and audio-visual co-production.
- Amit Panghal was ranked number one by the IOC’s Boxing Task Force ahead of next month’s Olympic Qualifiers. Amit had won the historic silver medal at the World Championships in the 52-kg weight category.
- Antarctica recorded its hottest-ever temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius recently, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The highest temperature recorded previously in the continent was 18.3 Degrees Celsius, which was recorded in January 1982.
- The United Kingdom will host the UN Climate Summit ‘COP26′ in November 2020. The UK Secretary of State, Alok Sharma will lead the UN climate talks.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Pancha Loha Statue of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya in Varanasi on February 16, 2020. On the same occasion, PM Modi will dedicate the Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya Memorial Centre to the nation.
- Rajiv Bansal was recently appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India. Bansal is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer from Nagaland Cadre of 1988 batch.
- The central government would be organizing the National Organic Food Festival in New Delhi from February 21-23, 2020. The first-of-its-kind festival will see participation from over 150 women
