- Rakhi Halder of Bengal has bagged gold in the 64kg category of the 35th edition of Senior Women's National Weightlifting Championships held in Kolkata on 5th Feb 2020.
- World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Tedros Adhanom said that they are launching a strategic preparedness and response plan to fight the novel coronavirus and requesting $675 million to fund the plan for the next 3 months.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the 11th DefExpo 2020 has said that the government has set a defence export target of 5 billion dollars in the next 5 years which is about 35,000 crore rupees.
- Avishek, son of former cricket administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya, has been elected as the new president of the Cricket Association Bengal (CAB) and became the 18th president of CAB.
- Union Cabinet on 5th Feb 2020 has given in-principle approval to set up a new major port at Vadhavan near Dahanu in Maharashtra. The total cost of the project is over Rs 65,000 crore and will be developed on the landlord model.
- 5 IIITs Given Status of Institution of National Importance
- Christina Koch is Set to Return to Earth
- 31st Veer Savarkar Akhil Bharatiya Samudra Taran Spardha
- RBI: Status Quo on Repo Rate at 5.15%
