1 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Costa Rica President Dr Oscar Arias Sanchez called on President Pranab Mukherjee as the two leaders recalled the long friendship between the friendly countries
2 Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha will be given the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) award for his outstanding contribution to cinema
3 Nine months after toppling Egypt's first democratically-elected president, powerful army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has quit the military to contest a presidential election he is expected to win easily
4 Former Proteas batsman Ashwell Prince has announced his retirement from cricket
5 Filmmakers Satish Kaushik and Dev Benegal’s “Dead, End” has been honoured with an award at the 12th Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF)
6 Supreme Court proposes Sunil Gavaskar's name for interim President of BCCI
7 The number of known executions worldwide rose to at least 778 last year following a surge in Iraq and Iran, Amnesty International said, but China remains the world's biggest state executioner by far
8 Jonathan Schell, the author, journalist and anti-war activist has died at age 70
9 Eleven Indian-Americans feature in Forbes magazine’s annual list of 100 best venture investors with the “Midas” touch, who made savvy investments in start-ups and then sold off their stakes to pocket nearly $95 billion in profits
10 Magic Bus, an India-based NGO that is transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of underprivileged children in the country, has been recognised at the Laureus World Sports Awards
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