Mr. Navjot Singh Siddhu started a Youtube channel by the name "Jittega Punjab"(jeetega punjab) and he invited all like-minded people for discussions and interviews towards revival and renaissance of Punjab.

Maha Vikas Aghadi(MVA) government in Maharashtra announced a new 500KM greenfield highway connecting Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Konkan running parallel to the sea coast.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that it will undertake a six-month US dollar sell/buy swap window to provide liquidity to the foreign exchange market.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to organise Young Scientist Programme (Yuvika 2020) from May 11 to May 22. The department has asked the principals to register the students on www.isro.gov.in by February 24. And ISRO would announce the names of the selected candidates on March 2.

The programme is primarily aimed at imparting basic knowledge on space technology, space science and space applications to younger ones with the intent of arousing their interest in emerging areas of space activities. The programme is, thus, aimed at creating awareness among the youngsters who are the future building blocks of the nation. ISRO has chalked out the programme to %u2018catch them young%u2019.

World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 or Novel-Coronavirus as a pandemic. A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease. The last official pandemic was in 2009, caused by an outbreak of the H1NI virus, commonly called "swine flu".

An epidemic disease is one %u201Caffecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.%u201D

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated International Women's Day by handing over his Social Media accounts to seven women achievers from different fields.

The oldest among the chosen women were 58-yr-old Kalavati Devi- a lady mason has been a driving force towards reducing open defecation in Kanpur by helping build over 4000 toilets in villages in and around Kanpur. She was also awarded Nari Shakti Puraskar.

Another Nari Shakti winner, 43-year-old Bina Devi from Munger in Bihar also tweeted from PM%u2019s account. She is a mushroom grower who motivated 1500 more women in the field and was %u2018Sarpanch%u2019 of Dhauri Panchayat, Tetiabamber block for five years.

33-year-old Arifa from Srinagar also took over PM%u2019s social media accounts and got the Nari Shakti Puraskar. She is an entrepreneur and the founder of Numdha Handicrafts and responsible for reviving the lost art of Numdha handicrafts and training more than 100 women in Kashmir.

Vijaya Pawar, who works for handicrafts of the Banjara community in rural Maharashtra for the last 2 decades and has been assisted by a 1000 women.

Disability activist and Nari Shakti Awardee in 2017, Malvika Iyer, to tweet from his account. She as a 13-year-old lost both her hands in a bomb blast in Rajasthan.

Kalpana Ramesh, a Go Green water warrior champion

Sneha Mohandoss %u2013 the founder of Foodbank India and a philanthropist who started a mission for %u2018Hunger-Free Nation%u2019 by starting a Facebook page in 2015.

Former minister and PDP leader Altaf Bukhari floated a new party and named it as J&K Apni Party(JKAP). It is the first Valley-based regional party that stands for integration of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union of India.

Information Commissioner Bimal Julka was appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC).

President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to Julka as the CIC in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Rashmi Thackeray, wife of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has been appointed as the new editor of the newspaper Saamana.