1.First World Ocean Science Congress (WOSC) concluded in Kochi, Kerala.The four-day-long event had started in Kochi on 5 February 2015. Themes of WOSC-2015 : Protect Oceans for Posterity and Blue EconomyEconomist and Nobel laureate .
2. Amartya Sen won the newly established Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015.
3.Telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a report on subscriber base. India telecom subscriber base reaches all-time high at 970 million at the end of December 2014.
4. 35th National Games mascot Ammu- the Great Hornbill, has made into the Limca Book of Records.It made into the record books owing to a playKalikkunna Kuttikalkkayi Bharatham Kathirikkunnu (India Awaits Children Who Play) in which Ammu is featured as lead role.According to the Limca Book’s 2015 Special Literature Edition, this play is about a mascot, which had been staged in most number of schools.
5. Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda declared 10 February as the National Deworming Day.
6.Reliance Communications Limited (RCOM) on 10 February 2015 tied-up with social networking giant Facebook to offer free internet access to people in India through the Facebook's initiative,Internet.org.
7.ICICI Bank launched India’s first digital Bank on mobile phone, Pockets. This digital e-wallet can be downloaded from Google Playstore.Pockets, the digital e-wallet uses a virtual VISA card that enables the users to transact on any website or mobile application in India.
Naveen Chopra was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Vodafone India.
7.Kiran Bedi released a comic book titled Kiran Bedi — Kaise Bani Top Cop at a thanks giving event organised in her Vidhan Sabha constituency Krishna Nagar, Delhi. The book is penned down by her sisters, Reeta Peshawaria Menon and Anu Peshawaria.
8. World’s first humanoid robot-staffed hotel is set to open in Nagasaki, Japan in July 2015.TheHenn-na Hotelwhich means Strange Hotel will be employing Robots as its staff and other advanced technologies in order to significantly reduce operating costs.
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