The World Bank will provide a $250-million loan for the National Rural Economic Transformation Project (NRETP) to help women in rural households develop viable enterprises for farm and non-farm products. An agreement in this regard was signed between the World Bank and the Government of India.

Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary cinched the gold medal in the 10 m air pistol mixed team event at the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi. Ranxin Jiang and Bowen Zhang of China won silver while the Republic of Korea pair Minjung Kim and Daehun Park got the bronze.

Visakhapatnam will soon be playing host to the first ever Federation International DE Volleyball(FIVB), a Beach Volleyball World Tour that will be held at RK Beach from February 28 to March 3

Japan’s Yohei Sasakawa was awarded with the Gandhi Peace Prize 2018 for his contribution in Leprosy Eradication in India and across the world.

G.R. Karthikeyan, father of India’s first Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award at the FMSCI annual awards function. FIA president Jean Todt was the chief guest and handed over the awards.

Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected Nigeria’s President, results showed, after a delayed poll that angered voters and led to claims of rigging and collusion.

As part of the ongoing India Bangladesh defence cooperation, a joint military exercise Sampriti-2019 will be conducted at Tangail, Bangladesh from 02 March to 15 March 2019.Exercise Sampriti-2019 is an important bilateral defence cooperation endeavour between India and Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed Network-18 Rising India Summit, held in New Delhi and laid out his vision for a ‘New India‘.