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• An Australian court has ordered Google to identify the person behind an anonymous bad review of a dentist.


• Dr. Matthew Kabbabe, a teeth-whitening specialist in Melbourne, sought the order so he could sue for defamation.


• He claimed user CBsm 23 had damaged his business by telling others to "STAY AWAY" from a procedure criticized as "extremely awkward and uncomfortable".

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• The US Senate voted to rein in President Donald Trump from attacking Iran, sharply rebuking his foreign policy despite a week earlier acquitting him in his impeachment trial.


• Eight senators of Trump's Republican Party, which enjoys a majority, bucked their leadership to join Democrats in a resolution that bars any military action against Iran without an explicit vote from Congress.

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• The United States has secured of a seven-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan that it hopes will allow it to strike a deal with the Taliban, officials said.


• The announcement came a day after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reported "notable progress" in negotiations with the Islamist insurgents.

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• US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced the UN release of a list of companies involved with Israeli settlements, saying it proved the world body was biased against the Jewish state.


• “Its publication only confirms the unrelenting anti-Israel bias so prevalent at the United Nations,” Pompeo said in a statement, calling himself “outraged.”

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• India urgently needs more ambitious structural and financial sector reform measures and a medium-term fiscal consolidation strategy due to the rising debt levels while ensuring a more accommodative fiscal stance in the budget, the IMF has said.


• Responding to a question on the budget presented by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, International Monetary Fund (IMF) spokesperson Gerry Rice said the economic environment in India is weaker than what the organization had forecast earlier.

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• Sanskrit in Uttarakhand, the Railways ministry decided to rename the name of its stations in the state.


• The signboards which have names of railway stations written in Hindi, English and Urdu will now be written in Hindi, English and Sanskrit.


• So, Dehradun railway station became Dehradunam and Rishikesh was renamed as Rishikesh. But this has led to controversy over getting the names right.

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• India has offered to partially open up its poultry and dairy markets to win a limited trade deal during US President Donald Trump’s first official visit to the country this month, people familiar with the protracted talks say.


• India, the world’s largest milk-producing nation, has traditionally restricted dairy imports to protect the livelihoods of 80 million rural households involved in the industry.

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• The officials of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam are likely to ask the centre to launch an independent probe into suspected cases of "wilful deletion" of data and important emails, people with direct knowledge of the matter have told NDTV.


• The emails that were suspected to have been deleted between November and December last year when state NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela was transferred and Hitesh Dev Sarma was appointed in his place, the sources said, asking not to be identified.

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• Staff from non-teaching background will look after the non-technical works during Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) starting from February 17, BSEB chairman Anand Kishor said.


• “Non-teaching staff would not be engaged for invigilation as it is a technical job. Around 30,000 music teachers would be given the duty, while other staff roped in from different departments would be looking after non-technical works,” said Kishor.


• “Primary school teachers, who would not join the strike, may also assist the examination work.”

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• UPSRLM Recruitment: Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission (UPSRLM) has invited online applications for recruitment on various posts in state, district and block levels.


• There are a total of 1954 vacancies. The posts include a mission manager, technical expert, and others. Candidates can apply online at www.sids.co.in/upsrlm

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• The central bank’s recent measures to lower interest rates for consumers and small businesses are unlikely to benefit them and instead deliver some collateral gains to corporate borrowers, whose interest rates are still set on the marginal cost of the bank’s funds.


• This is because, from 1 October, all retail and small business loans have moved to the new external benchmark-based lending rate—it’s the repo rate for almost all banks—from the earlier marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) framework.

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• Banks credit and deposits grew at 7.13 percent and 9.91 percent to Rs 101.02 lakh crore and Rs 133.24 lakh crore, respectively, in the fortnight ended January 31, according to the Reserve Bank data.


• In the year-ago fortnight ended February 1, 2019, bank's advances stood at Rs 94.29 lakh crore while deposits at Rs 121.22 lakh crore.

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• Sarfaraz Khan's 177 took Mumbai to 427 runs on day 2 of their Group B match against Madhya Pradesh here.


• Sarfaraz, whose last five innings include a double ton and a triple ton, shared a 275-run stand with Aakarshit Gomel, who scored 122.


• Captain Aditya Tare then anchored the tail to take Mumbai to 427 before the bowlers reduced Madhya Pradesh to 200/7.

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• Cristiano Ronaldo's injury-time penalty grabbed Juventus a 1-1 draw at AC Milan in their Italian Cup semi-final, first leg as his incredible scoring run continued.


• The 35-year-old has now scored 12 goals in his last eight games in all competitions after the Portuguese ultimately got the better of old rival Zlatan Ibrahimovic despite being largely anonymous for much of the match.

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• Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) party leader Shri Arvind Kejriwal, 51 years old, to be sworn as Chief Minister (CM) of New Delhi on February 16, 2020 at Ramlila Maidan, Delhi, with his cabinet members.


• He was CM of Delhi for consecutively 3 times during the period of 2013, 2015 and 2020.


• The party sent a letter to the Lieutenant Governor Shri Anil Baijal staking claim to form the government.

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• Former India all-rounder Robindra Ramnarine Singh, 56 years old, appointed Director of Cricket of the UAE(United Arab Emirates).


• He was appointed by Emirates Cricket Board after the dismissal of head coach Douglas Robert Brown.

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• Rishi Sunak, the man who in a stunning turn of events was appointed United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer less than a month before the first budget of Boris Johnson's new government


• The former Goldman Sachs banker is 39 and has been viewed as a rising star in the Conservative Party, with the Conservative Home website anointing him "the next prime minister" earlier in the year.