• Harinder Sidhu appointed as new Australian High Commissioner to India.
• Indian-origin lawyer Davinder Singh named vice-chairman of ICC commission.
• Wipro buys HealthPlan Services.

Indian-origin lawyer Davinder Singh (58) has been named as Vice-Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce Commission (ICC) on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-corruption.

India and United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed 9 bilateral agreements covering cooperation in the various sectors.

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has declared Wild Pig (sus scrofa) as vermin in Uttarakhand for a year.

Karnataka̢۪s flagship mobile-one governance application has won gold medal at the fourth World Government Summit in Dubai, UAE in the m-governance awards category.

India̢۪s third largest IT exporter Wipro Limited has acquired US based healthcare technology firm HealthPlan Services for US 460 million dollars.

The Union Ministry of Railways has launched 3 IT (Information Technology) enabled apps to bring transparency in Indian Railways on the sidelines of Digital India initiative.

Indian-origin Harinder Sidhu has been appointed as Australian High Commissioner to India. She replaces outgoing High Commissioner Patrick Suckling.

Pulitzer winning composer Leslie Bassett passed away on 4 February 2016 in Oakwood, Georgia. He was 93.

• India near bottom of intellectual property index
• NATO, EU sign agreement on Cyber Defence Cooperation.
• India wins its 1000th gold at the South Asian Games

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and European Union (EU) have signed an agreement to improve Cooperation in Cyber Defence to counter modern forms of hybrid warfare.

The UAE̢۪s national oil company Abu Dhabi National Oil (ADNOC) Company has agreed to store crude oil in India̢۪s maiden Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPRs) storage.