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• The World Health Organization says the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19.


• "We now have a name for the disease and it's Covid-19," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.


• It comes after the death toll from the virus passed 1,000. Tens of thousands of people have been infected.

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• The number of fatalities from China's new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 1,110 nationwide on Wednesday after hard-hit Hubei province reported 94 new deaths.


• In its daily update, Hubei's health commission also confirmed another 1,638 new cases in the central province, where the outbreak emerged in December.


• There are now more than 44,200 confirmed cases across China, based on previously released figures from the government.

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• US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of honing its ballistic missile skills through a satellite launch and vowed to exert more pressure.


• Iran, which is enemy number one for President Donald Trump's administration, said that it had successfully launched a satellite but that it failed to reach orbit.

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• Sudan has agreed to hand over those wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, a top Sudanese official and spokesman said, although he did not mention by name ousted leader Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the ICC for genocide.


• The Hague-based ICC has charged Bashir and three of his former aides with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sudan's western region of Darfur, which was the site of a brutal conflict that began in 2003.

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• China's coronavirus outbreak poses a "very grave threat for the rest of the world" and should be viewed as "Public Enemy Number 1", the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said.


• WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to step up measures to detect and contain the virus, especially in at least 30 countries with weaker health systems, where it could "create havoc".

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• The data of the final citizens' list in Assam, published last August, has vanished from the website of the state National Register of Citizens (NRC) where the data was published as mandated by the Supreme Court.


• The Union Home Ministry said the NRC data is safe and cited "some technical issue in visibility on cloud". The ministry said the problem is "being resolved soon".

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• The Assam government has decided to 'tweak' its ambitious plans of an 'extensive' socio-economic survey of its 'indigenous' Muslim population that many believe is aimed to 'segregate' the 'Bhumiputra' Muslims of Assam from the those who are of Bangladeshi origin.


• The BJP-led government in Assam has decided to drop the word 'indigenous' from this special census drive that it wants to proceed with in two months' time and rather name it based on the indigenous Muslim communities like the Goria, Moria , Deshi and Jolah.

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• The credibility of India’s official statistics has hit rock-bottom in recent years.” This is the conclusion reached by Milan’s guest on the show this week, Pramit Bhattacharya.


• Today, economists openly question the sanctity of India’s GDP growthfigures. The government has chosen to scrap or suppress economic surveys it has conducted when they have thrown up inconvenient truths.

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• The ruling Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has made a clean sweep in the Delhi Assembly polls 2020, winning 62 seats in the 70-member House.


• The Bharatiya Janata Party came in second with eight seats and the Congress suffered a crushing defeat with 63 of its candidates losing their security deposit. The vote share of the Congress party slipped to an all time low of 4.27 per cent.

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• sbi.co.in(SBI) has released the admit card for the preliminary examination to recruit clerks on February 11, 2020. Candidates who have registered for the examination can download their admit card online at sbi.co.in on or before March 8, 2020.


• The preliminary examination is expected to be tentatively conducted in the month of March 2020. The SBI is conducting the recruitment drive to fill 8000 vacancies of a clerk at its various branches.

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• Eight visually-impaired students are appearing in the class 10 board examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC), which started.


• Students of St. Michael Netraheen High School (SMNHS), Bahu Bazar, Geeta Mahto, Baby Kumari, Punam Kumari, Kaushliya Kumari, Md Danish, Shankar Bhagat, Laxman Soy, Subhash Kumar, wrote their commerce papers at Bethesda Girls High School.

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• IndusInd Bank: Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service revised its outlook for the private lender to negative from stable due to concerns over decline in asset quality.


• Moody’s retained the bank's rating at 'Baa-3/P-3', the agency said. Baa3 denotes the lowest rating in investment grade on long-term corporate obligation, which carries moderate risks.

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• India has received foreign direct investment (FDI) of $463.44 million in the food processing sector in the first half of the current fiscal, the government informed Parliament.


• The country had received $628.24 million FDI in the food processing sector during the full fiscal year 2018-19 and $904.90 million during 2017-18, it added.

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• Custodian of cricket laws, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), will play one 50-over game and three T20 matches during their upcoming tour of Pakistan, beginning.


• All the matches will take place in Lahore, the MCC said in a press release. Lahore Qalandars will be the Club's first opposition in a floodlit T20 match at the Gaddafi Stadium.

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• Aizawl FC registered a solid 2-0 win against Tiddim Road Athletic Union (TRAU) FC at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium.


• Second-half substitute Abdoulaye Kanoute's brace sealed the three points for the hosts, giving them their first win at home in the current Hero I-League season.


• Aizawl FC Head Coach Stanley Rozario made just one change from his match-winning eleven against Quess East Bengal, recalling Joe Zoherliana to the line-up.

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• Indian professional hockey player Lalremsiami (19) from Mizoram was voted the best FIH(International Hockey Federation) Women’s Rising Star of the Year 2019.


• At the same time, the Indian team’s midfielder Vivek Sagar Prasad (19) was selected as the best FIH Men’s Rising Star of the Year 2019.

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• ESPNcricinfo (sports news website) announced the 13th edition of the Annual ESPNcricinfo Awards 2019. Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan was named as the ‘captain of the year’ for leading England to win the World Cup Title against New Zealand.


• Ben Stokes was awarded the ‘ODI (One Day International) batting performance of the year’.

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• Washington has accused two Russian satellites of tailing a US spy satellite in what it called "disturbing behaviour", prompting a guarded response from Moscow.


• Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov confirmed that he had received a message from Washington regarding the satellites, adding that "Moscow will respond after studying it."