News Digest: January 27-February 2, 2019

January 27

• Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal to win Australian Open men’s final.

• Saina Nehwal wins Indonesia Masters 2019 women’s singles championship after Carolina Marin withdraws with an injury midway during the first game.

• Two bombs at a Roman Catholic cathedral in southern Philippines killed 20 people and injured dozens more.

• Pakistan skipper Sarfraz Ahmed gets four match ban over racist comments against Andile Phehlukwayo during Pakistan’s second One Day International against South Africa in Durban. 

January 29

• Socialist leader George Fernandes, 88, dies following prolonged illness.

• Suman Kumari becomes Pakistan’s first Hindu woman judge.

January 31

• Haryana crowned Pro Wrestling League 4 Champions.

February 1

• Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presents Narendra Modi government’s sixth and final budget.

• Rishi Kumar Shukla appointed new CBI chief.

• Russia suspends the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty with the US.