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Sports:
1) Brazil Open 2013 :
Rafael Nadal wins Brazil open defeated David Nalbandian.
2) Inaugural Hockey India League : Ranchi Rhinos Beat Delhi
Waveriders to Win first Hockey India League.
3) Women's European golf Tour : Lydia Ko.
4) ICC Women’s World Cup Trophy : Australia won the ICC
Women’s World Cup Trophy after defeating West-Indies. The final was held at
Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
5) Grenke Chess Classic trophy 2013 : Viswanathan Anand,
from India won the after defeating Arkadij Naiditsch from Germany.
6) Dubai Tennis Championship : Sania Mirza and Bethanie-Mattek
Sands won after defeating Nadia Petrova
and Katarina Srebotnik,
Miscellaneous:
1) Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme launched by Finance
Minister P.Chidambaram in Mumbai.
2) The India-U.S.Joint Working Group Meeting 2013: India-U.S.Joint Working Group Meeting on UN
Peacekeeping held its 10th meeting in Washington in February 2013.
3) World Press Freedom Index 2013: India dropped to 140th
rank from 131st rank in the list of 179 countries.
4) India and Austria inked a social security pact at Vienna.
Indian Overseas Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and Austrian Minister for Labour
and Social Security, Rudoulf Hundstorfer signed the pact.
5) ICICI Bank, launched their mobile banking service called
Mobile Money.
6) World’s First bionic man called Rex was unveiled at
London's Science Museum..
7) World’s Largest Prime Number Discovered which contains 17
Million Digits. The previous largest prime number contains about 13 million
digits.
8) The first India-Japan Maritime Affairs Dialogue was held
in New Delhi.
10) India and Bangladesh second Joint Consultative
Commission meeting held in Dhaka in February 2013.
