1. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced that the differently-abled will be given representation on an nomination basis in local bodies.
2. US President Donald Trump said that Indian graduates from top American universities will be able to be employed by American companies under the newly introduced ‘Golden Card’ citizenship scheme.
3. The Greater Chennai Corporation has started the work of implanting ‘microchips’ to track stray dogs roaming on the roads.
4. Rekha Gupta has become the fourth woman Chief Minister of Delhi, after BJP’s Sushma Swaraj, Congress’s Sheila Dikshit and Aam Aadmi Party’s Atishi.
5. National Science Day is celebrated every year on February 28 across India.
6. The Public Health Department has warned that prolonged use of high-volume devices like headphones and earphones can damage hearing.
7. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the amendments made to the law to empower customs and goods and services tax (GST) officials to make arrests.
8. The agreement for the renewal of the five-year programme ‘Hindi at the UN’ from April 1 to March 31, 2030, was signed by India’s Ambassador to the UN P. Harish and UN Under-Secretary of the Department of Public Information Melissa Fleming.
9. The Supreme Court has refused to interfere with the order of the state High Court to take the toxic waste from the Bhopal plant, which leaked poisonous gas in 1984, to Bithampur in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh for safe incineration.
10. On the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, a toxic gas called methyl isocyanate leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide manufacturing plant in Bhopal.