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- Chennai emits 22.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and is ranked third biggest emitter of CO2, Delhi top the list with over 38.38 million tonnes followed by Mumbai.
- Delhi High Court upheld the Election Commission of India's order, allotting AIADMK's ‘two leaves’ symbol to the faction led by Edappadi K.Palaniswamy and O.Panneerselvam.
- Indian Railways launched a new feature on the IRCTC website to book seats even after the reservation chart is prepared.
- As per the new feature, travellers can book tickets after the second reservation chart is out just 30 minutes before the departure of trains.
- Supreme Court ruled that the Centre should formulate a scheme to ensure that compensation in hit and run cases reaches genuine claimants of the victims.
- The former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was presented with the first 'P V Narasimha Rao National leadership and lifetime achievement award' by former President Pranab Mukherjee.
- Afghanistan began exports to India through the Chabahar port in Iran. This is the first time Afghanistan has exported goods to India bypassing the Pakistan route on February 24, 2019.
- S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are met on second time less than a year in the Vietnamese Hanoi.
- International Cricket Council (ICC) banned UAE-based coach Irfan Ansari for 10 years after he was found guilty of making a “corrupt approach” to Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed in 2017.
- Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, inaugurated National Institutes of Design (NID) at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and Jorhat in Assam.
- Both institutes are autonomous institutions under Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).
- Union Cabinet approved construction of Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Corridor of Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) covering a distance of 82.15 kms.
- ISRO would be launching an electronic intelligence satellite ‘Emisat’ for Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in March 2019.
- In Chess, Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta lifted the Cannes International Open trophy held at Cannes of France. It is his first solo International tournament victory. He beat Pier Luigi Basso of Italy.
- Myanmar set up a committee to discuss reforming the country's military-drafted constitution.
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