1.The Supreme Court Tuesday protected influencer Ranveer Allahbadia from arrest over his distasteful comments during a YouTube show while severely castigating him for the remarks it described as “showing a perverted mind”.

2.India, Qatar Tuesday agreed to double bilateral trade to $28 billion over the next five years and announced elevation of their relationship to the level of strategic partnership.

3.The Supreme Court Tuesday granted bail to alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the purported Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland case being probed by the CBI.

4.Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said it is ‘disrespectful’ and ‘discourteous’ for the Prime Minister and Home Minister to have made a midnight decision to select the new CEC when the process of selection is being challenged in the Supreme Court.

5.Legislators cutting across party lines Tuesday expressed grief in the Assembly over the death of a Nepal student on Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University campus here and condemned the alleged mistreatment of several other students from the neighbouring country by the private institute authorities.

6.Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) chief Bhakta Charan Das launched a 60-km Sankalp Padayatra from Bhubaneswar to Srimandir in Puri, Tuesday.

7.As many as 8,300 villages in the state have no road connectivity, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Minister Rabi Narayan Naik told the Assembly Tuesday.

8.Commerce and Transport Minister Bibhuti Bhushan Jena has issued a clear directive to the State Transport Authority (STA), emphasising that no bus staff shall discriminate against any passenger, and any disrespect towards women will be strictly dealt with.

9.The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Punjab government to decide on a representation seeking action against illegal travel agents duping innocents by illegally sending them abroad.

 10.The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has extended the last date to apply for this year's civil services preliminary examination till February 21.

11.The United States and Russia said Tuesday they had agreed to press ahead with efforts to end the war in Ukraine after holding talks in the Saudi capital at which Kyiv was not represented.

12.India’s oil imports from the United States rose sharply in January from December, turning Washington as the fifth largest oil supplier to New Delhi, data obtained from trade sources show.

13.The Adani Foundation has collaborated with GEMS Education, a global leader in private K-12 education, to establish temples of education across the country.

14.The rate of unemployment among people aged 15 years and above in urban areas dropped marginally to 6.4 per cent in the October-December quarter of the current fiscal, according to the National Sample Survey Survey (NSSO).

15.More than 28 lakh companies are registered in the country and only 65 per cent of them or little over 18.1 lakh companies are active, according to official data.