1.President Donald Trump Saturday signed an order to impose stiff tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, drawing swift retaliation and an undeniable sense of betrayal from the country’s North American neighbours as a trade war erupted among the long time allies.

2.An utterly dominant India fl aunted their embarrassment of riches to win a second successive U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup title with a nine-wicket shellacking of South Africa here Sunday, the triumph giving a peek into the game’s most perfectly calibrated youth structure.

3.ISRO’s attempts to place the NVS-02 satellite in the desired orbit suffered a setback after the thrusters on board the spacecraft failed to fi re, the space agency said Sunday.

4.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday released the republished original edition of Odia primer ‘Barnabodha’ written by ‘Bhaktakabi’ Madhusudan Rao.

5.Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Sunday said the fi rst instalment of ‘Subhadra Yojana’, the women welfare scheme of the BJP government, will be distributed to eligible new applicants February 8 in Jajpur.

6.According to the dashboard of the Department of Justice, Odisha has 21 operational and 31 notified gram nyayalayas. The state has received Rs 5.24 crore from the Centre since the inception of the scheme in 2009.

7.Odisha Tourism bagged the ‘Best Decoration Award’ at Outbound Travel Mart (OTM) Mumbai, held from January 30 to February 1.

8.The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a professor of Sambalpur University (SU), who was a member of the NAAC Peer Review Committee, in connection with alleged bribery case in the accreditation rating process.

9.Chitrasen Behera, a 70-year-old artisan from Balsakumpa village in Khajuripada block of this district, has dedicated his life to bamboo craftsmanship

10.Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, along with two senior judges of the Supreme Court, Sunday held a meeting with high court judges to discuss issues related to filling up of vacancies, appointment of ad-hoc judges in high courts and establishment of evening courts

11.Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Suresh Gopi Sunday courted a controversy by stating that the members of the "upper castes" should handle the tribal affairs portfolio, which he backtracked later.

12.The food infl ation rate in India has remained fi rm over the past two years defying the global trend, and frequent extreme weather events are one of the reasons, the government said in its latest Economic Survey.

13.Markets regulator Sebi is looking to come out with a new mechanism to ensure secure and efficient payments in the securities market through Unifi ed Payments Interface (UPI) in bid to distinguish legitimate fi nancial intermediaries from fraudsters.

14.India is reviewing its stance on cryptocurrencies due to shifting attitudes towards the virtual asset in other countries, a senior government official told Reuters Sunday

15.An utterly dominant India flaunted their embarrassment of riches to win a second successive U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup title with a nine-wicket shellacking of South Africa here Sunday, the triumph giving a peek into the game’s most perfectly calibrated youth structure.