1.A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the coast of Pakistan early on February 8, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
2.Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi on Tuesday denied reports that Tamil Nadu Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao had sought his opinion on whether there were any legal hurdles to AIADMK general secretary Sasikala Natarajan taking over as the next Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
3.An NIA court in Punjab on Tuesday issued proclamation notice against Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM’s) chief Maulana Masood Azhar and three others, asking them to appear before it on March 9 in connection with last year’s brazen attack on Pathankot IAF base.
4.China’s state-run tabloid Global Times has accused India of needlessly raising concerns about military activity in Hambantota — a strategically important port in the island nation that is being developed by China.
5.With China opposing U.S.’ proposal in the U.N. for designating Pathankot attack mastermind and Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, India on Tuesday said it has taken up the matter with Beijing.
6.Nearly 80% voters cast their votes on Tuesday in the re-poll ordered by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Acquem polling booth at the Margao constituency in South Goa, Election officials said.”As many as 632 out of the eligible 791 voters in the polling booth area cast votes,” a senior official of the Chief Electoral Office, Goa said.
7.West Bengal’s Advocate-General Jayanta Mitra today resigned following difference of opinion with the state government.
8.A suicide bomber on foot ripped through a crowd of Afghan Supreme Court employees on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 41 others in the second attack on government institutions in under a month.
9.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit out at critics, mounting a strong defence of his government’s decisions in the last year, from demonetisation to surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC).
10.For the first time in the country’s history, seven seniormost Supreme Court judges led by Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar are convening in open court on Wednesday to initiate suo motu contempt action against sitting Calcutta High Court judge, Justice C.S. Karnan, for “scurrilous remarks” made against senior judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts and impeding the process of justice administration.
