05:01 pm: Preparations for upcoming Commonwealth games, Asian games and Olympics are absolutely on track and whatever help sportspersons need will be provided: Rajyavardhan Rathore, Union Minister for Youth affairs and Sports (ANI)
04:57 pm: National Human Rights Commission issues notices to the Union Home Secretary and Commissioner of Delhi Police over death of a bike-borne youth after his throat got slit by a metal wire tied by Delhi Police personnel with two unmanned barricades in Delhi on February 8 (ANI)
04:55 pm: Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong and South Korea's President Moon shake hands at Olympic opening ceremony (AFP)
04:51 pm: Opening ceremony starts for Pyeongchang Winter Olympics (AFP)
04:50 pm: French National Thierry Gagner, director of NGO 'Hopigo & Missions Humanitaries', arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a minor girl in Puducherry; booked under POCSO Act (ANI)
04:49 pm: Two commander level Naxals of People's Liberation Guerilla Army killed in an encounter by Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) during a search operation in the jungles of Lachantola, in Chhattisgarh (ANI)
04:43 pm: Principal City Civil Judge and Special Judge and Special Judge, Bengaluru convicts Lashkar-e Toiba terrorist Bilal Ahmed Quta for money laundering under PMLA, for hatching a conspiracy during 2001-2007 to wage a war against India (ANI)
04:18 pm: US House of Representatives passes spending bill that ends government shutdown (AFP)
04:16 pm: ED attaches assets worth Rs 1.9 crore of Sanjay Kumar, a government official and Bimal Ramgopal Agarwal in a money laundering case involving corruption in cricket betting investigation (ANI)
04:11 pm: House narrowly passes bipartisan budget measure, ending government shutdown (The Associated Press)
04:02 pm: Kerala High Court rejects the FIR filed against former chief minister Oommen Chandy and others in connection with the Pattoor land deal case (ANI)
03:56 pm: Speaker has rights under rules. But some members are concerned that other committee's meetings are at the same time and only ours is cancelled. I have written to her and want it to be confidential: Shashi Tharoor on Sumitra Mahajan's letter on meeting of committee on external affairs (ANI)
03:52 pm: Arguments in Judge BH Loya death case inconclusive; hearing to continue on February 12 in Supreme Court (ANI)
03:50 pm: US Vice President Mike Pence skips Winter Olympic dinner with leaders of North and South Korea (AFP)
03:49 pm: Sensex slips 407.40 points to close at 34,005.76; Nifty ends at 10454.95
03:27 pm: When this govt came to power in 2014 there were 52,000 under graduate and 30,000 post graduate medical seats. Today we not only increased 12,000 medical seats but also the total number of UG seats have risen to 85,525, PG seats to 46,000: Union Health Minister JP Nadda (ANI)
03:25 pm: Police arrest two women naxals, recover wires, detonator, pipe bomb and pamphlets on Naxalism from them in Chattisgarh's Bijapur (ANI)
03:24 pm: Police arrest teacher accused of molesting a class 2 student in Kolkata's Carmel Primary School (ANI)
03:00 pm: Hyderabad: 3 history-sheeters, involved in murder case of a car mechanic on 31st January, arrested by Humayunagar police (ANI)
02:48 pm: Supreme Court asked Delhi government and DDA to respond within four days whether the Environment Impact Assessment was done by them before taking a decision to amend Master Plan of Delhi (ANI)
