✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. India and Iraq on Monday held a second round of Foreign Office Consultations in Baghdad.
2. President Droupadi Murmu delivered the keynote address virtually at the Global Summit of Women 2023, held in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She highlighted the importance of women’s empowerment & appreciated the pioneering initiative of UAE’s Mother of the Nation, Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak.
3. External affairs minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday slammed the BBC documentary that was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the timing was “not accidental” and that the “election season has started in London and New York”, in an obvious reference to the approaching Indian general elections next year.
4. First G20 Working Group (CWG) meeting of Culture to begin at Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh.
5. Two Gujarat cities, Ahmedabad & Surat to play host to “Thailand Week Road Show 2023” from Feb 22, where over 40 companies from Thailand, including those from the food & hospitality sector, to participate.
6. India – Egypt hold 3rd ‘Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism’ meeting in New Delhi.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Lower & upper chambers of Russia’s parliament to hold extraordinary meetings at Moscow
2. Delegation of six German parliament members to pay an official visit to Bangladesh from 22 to 26 Feb to further foster strong ties between two nations.
3. 27th edition of Muscat International Book Fair to kick off to run for 11 days at Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre.
4. The Mukaab will be in the center of the Wider New Murabba Development & 400 mtr high wide indoor city created by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Prime Minister and Chairman of the New Murabba Development Company (NMDC) to bring the project to fruition.
5. European Parliament (EP) subcommittee on human rights to visit Manila, Philippines to meet with lawmakers in Senate & House of Representatives to discuss best practices & legislation.
6. South Korea court grants legal status to same-sex couple for 1st time.
7. Japan is planning to increase the age of consent from 13 to 16 in an overhaul of its sex crime legislation following outrage over multiple rape acquittals. Japan has the lowest age of consent among the G7 nations. The age of consent in Germany is 14, it is 15 in France and 16 in the UK and many US states.
8. US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Wikipedia operator’s bid to resurrect its lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) challenging mass online surveillance.
9. Millions Across U.S. Brace for Coast-to-Coast Winter Storm
The storm is expected to interrupt travel plans across the country and possibly bring down power lines, forecasters said. Heavy winds disrupted California’s electrical grid. More than 30 million people were under winter weather alerts in a nearly continuous stretch from the coast of California all the way to the coast of Maine.
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