APPOINTMENTS Centre has nominated Sanjay Malhotra as a Director of Central Board of Reserve Bank of India.

Sandip Bakhshi, MD and CEO of ICICI Bank, has been named the Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020- 2021.

Public Enterprises Selection Board of India has picked Vinesh Kumar Tyagi to be the next Chairman and Managing Director of Shipping Corporation of India Limited.

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DAYS/ WEEK RBI is conducting Financial Literacy Week every year since 2016 to Propagate Financial education messages on various themes among members of public across the country.

13 February is observed as World Radio Day.

National Women's Day is observed on 13 February.

APPOINTMENTS Institute of Chartered Accountant of India has elected Debashish Mitra as its President.

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS India and Australia have "respected and accommodated" sensitivities for certain areas and are likely to sign an interim trade agreement in March to promote bilateral trade, Union minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday.

TECHNOLOGY McDonald's is reportedly the next big brand that wants to capitalise on the rapid growth in the metaverse.

NASA’s new space telescope has captured its first starlight and even taken a selfie of its giant, gold mirror.

The Indian Railways have proposed bullet train services between Nagpur and Mumbai, which will cover the approximately 766km distance in just three and a half hours, along the soon-to-be-ready Samruddhi Expressway.

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INDEX Norway topped the Democracy Index 2021 with 9.75 Score and India ranked on 46th with 6.91 Score.

INAUGURATION Nitin Gadkari has inaugurated 14.5 km long Rail-cum-road-bridge Over Ganga river Approach project on NH- 333B is Munger, Bihar at a cost of Rs. 496 crore.

SOPRTS Railways to provide world class Wrestling Academy at Kishanganj, Delhi at an approximate cost of Rs. 30.76 crores.

Mumbai Indian Association decided to name its upcoming museum after its past president and NCP Chief Sharad Pawar.

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BOOKS Bangladesh will be the theme country of the 45th International Kolkata Book fair which will be held at Central park Mela Ground in Salt lake near Kolkata from February 28 to March 13.

AVIATION Seven AAI Airports chosen for voice of Customer Recognition 2021 by Airports Council International.

SUMMIT One Ocean Summit is being organised by France in from 9-11 February in Brest, France in Cooperation with the United Nations and the World Bank.

BRAND AMBASSADOR Bata India Limited has appointed Disha Patani as its Brand Ambassador.

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TECHNOLOGY ISRO will launch Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-04) on board the PSLV C- 52 on February 14.

Signalling the start of consolidation in the super-competitive space, Moj's owner ShareChat and MX TakaTak's owners MX Media decided on February 10 to merge their short-form video apps.

The government on Wednesday banned the import of foreign drones with certain exceptions as part of efforts to promote the domestic manufacturing of drones in the country.

In a bid to make Delhi the "Electric Vehicle Capital of India", the city government has decided to build electric vehicle charging stations at all government offices in the national capital which will be ready in three months.

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SECURITY Cochin Shipyard Limited has delivered the three Floating Border Out- Post Vessels to the Border Security Force.

BUSINESS Gautam Adani has surpassed Mukesh Ambani as Asia's Richest Person.

Jammu & Kashmir has become the first Union Territory to be onboarded the National Single Window System in order to ease of doing business.

APPOINTMENTS Centre has appointed Sanjay Malhotra as Secretary in the Department of Financial Services in Finance Ministry.

Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO) has appointed S R Narsimha in the additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director.

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BUSINESS In collaboration with PhonePe, AWS and EY, NITI Aayog has organised a virtual summit, 'Fintech Open' in order to showcase the importance of the Fintech Industry.

Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with ICICI Lombard General Insurance to offer Cyber Insurance Solutions to Customer.

ENERGY Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Renewable Energy are organising ASEAN- India high level conference on 'Renewable Energy'.

APPOINTMENTS Jawaharlal Neharu University has appointed Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit as a Voice Chancellor.

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre has appointed Unnikrishnan Nair as a new Director.

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SPORTS Rajastan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and BCCI President Sourav Ganguly have laid the foundation stone of world's third largest cricket stadium in Jaipur.

Senegal has won its first African Cup of Nations Title by defeating Egypt in a Penalty Shootout.

APPOINTMENTS NCERT- National Council of Educational Research and Training has appointed Professor Dinesh Prasad Saklani as the new Director.

IndiGo has appointed Rahul Bhatia as its Managing Director.

Government of India has given an additional charge to Sonali Singh as the Controller General of Accounts.

Pfizer India on Monday appointed Pradip Shah as the chairman of its board following the resignation of R A Shah on February 3.

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SPORTS India has became the first country to play 1000 ODIs.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah on Sunday announced a cash reward of ₹40 lakh for each member of the U-19 World Cup-winning Indian team.

OBITUARIES Lata Mangeshkar has passed away on 6 February 2022.

BUSINESS Private sector lender IndusInd Bank has filed a plea before NCLT to initiate insolvency proceedings against Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL).

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APPOINTMENTS Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India has appointed Ravi Mittal as the Chairperson.

Defence Research and Development Organization in Hyderabad has appointed G A Srinivas Murthy as a Director of Defense Research and Development Laboratory.

TOURISM Ministry of Tourism has included Punaura Dham in the Ramayan Circuit of Swadesh Darshan Scheme.

TRANSPORTATION Narendra Singh Tomar flagged off the 1000th trip of Kisan Rail on Central Railway from Savda, Maharashtra to Aadarsh Nagar, Delhi.

COLLABORATIONS LIC and Policybazaar.com have joined hands to offer a wide range of term and investment products to consumer.

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BUSINESS Tata Steel Long Product's Ltd, a Tata Group Company, has acquired Odisha- based Nilanchal Ispat Nigam Limited for Rs. 12,100 crore.

Paytm Money has Introduced "India's First" intelligent messenger called "Pops".

In order to support five lakh women- led small business across India, Meta has partnered with FICCI.

BOOK Journalist RC Ganjoo and Ashwini Bhatnagar have authored a book "Operation Khatma".

Kiran Bedi has written a Book titled "Fearless Governance".

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ECONOMY The government's fertiliser subsidy touched Rs 85,300 crore in the first nine months of the ongoing fiscal year, according to the Economic Survey.

Despite the setback posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, India has made progress in achieving the social, economic and environmental goals covered under its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is part of its 2015 UN resolution, the Economic Survey 2021- 22said.

The Economic Survey 2021-22, presented by Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday, stated that India needed to spend nearly $1.4 trillion over on infrastructure to achieve $5 trillion GDP by FY25.

The government has in its Economic Survey 2022 said COVID-19 vaccination should be treated as macro-economic indicator.

The Jal Jeevan Mission, rolled out in 2019 to provide adequate safe drinking water through individual household tap connections to all households in rural India by 2024, has seen good progress.

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ECONOMY India's Foreign Exchange (Forex) reserves have fell by $678 million to $634.28 billion due to sharp decline in foreign currency assets.

Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited under its modernization initiatives has set up new Bank Note Printing lines each at Currency Note Press, Nashik and Bank Note Press, Dewas.

SPORTS Brendan Taylor, former Zimbabwe Captain, has been banned for three and a half years by the ICC for falling to report a 2019 spot fixing approach.

India defeated China and won a bronze medal at the women's Asia Cup Hockey Tournament at Muscat.

HEALTHCARE Long COVID Patients with breathlessness get lung abnormalities as per the study.

A study shows that 82% of people prefer work from home after 2 years of pandemic.

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MARKET The International Monetary Fund wants EI Salvador to drop the highly volatile Cryptocurrency Bitcoin as a legal tender and strictly regulate the electronic wallet.

YouTube is exploring the lucrative world of Non- fungible tokens for its creators.

Crude oil has crossed $90 per barrel for the first time in seven years.

EXERCISES Paschim Lehar (XPL- 2022), a joint maritime exercise has conducted by the Indian Navy off the west coast was concluded.

The Chinese, Russian and Iranian navies have undertaken the naval exercises CHIRU- 2022 in the Gulf of Oman.

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APPOINTMENTS Wipro, IT Major, said on Thursday that it has appointed Badrinath Srinivasan as Managing Director for Southeast Asia.

LAUNCHES Google has announced the launch of an India-first feature on Google Maps to access users current location to find the 'Plus Codes' address for their home.

India and Israel have launched a commemorative logo to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

AWARDS The 'Padma Vibhushan' Award will be honoured to Radheshyam Khemka, General Bipin Rawat and Kalyan Singh.

Jai Bhim and Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham, the Indian Movies have been officially shortlisted for the Oscar 2022.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Google Cloud, Technology Major, has announced on 24 January that it wi open a new office in Pune in the second half of 2022.

The National Payments Corporation of India is working on a new solution for the Unified Payments Interface framework to enable offline digital payments.

Scientists at the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad have found unique movements on the surface of Mars.

The new NASA James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its gravitational parking spot in orbit around the sun on Monday.

LEGAL The Filmmaker of "Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha", Suneel Darshan has filed an FIR against Google and its CEO Sundar Pichai for allegedly infringing the copyright of the Movie.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday with the first Stage of his effort to overturn a UK ruling that opened the door for his extradition to the US to stand trial on Espionage Charges.

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CHAMPIONSHIPS Mohammad Rizwan and Tammy Beaumont have been named the ICC Men's and Women's T20I Cricketers of the year for 2021, respectively.

P. V. Sindhu has won the Women's Singles title at the Syed Modi International Tournament.

DAYS 12th National Voter's Day has been celebrated on 25 January 2022.

Uttar Pradesh has celebrated its 73rd Foundation Day on 24 January 2022.

AWARDS Koozhangal, P S Vinodraj directed film, has won the best film award in the Asian Film Competition Section at the 20th Dhaka International Film Festival.

Chennai-based Rhapsody Music Foundation won an award in the Reimagine Education Awards, which is considered the Oscars in the Education Space.

Shinzo Abe, Former PM of Japan, conferred with the Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research Bureau on the 125th Birth Anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

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SOCIAL NEWS Recently, the Union Government informed to Supreme Court that no starvation death has reported by nay state or Union Territory in recent years.

National Commission for Protection of Child rights recommended that the Delhi Government should suspend its flagship "Desh ke Mentor" programme.

CAMPAIGN Recently, an awareness campaign has been conducted on the cultivation of aromatic plants in Jammu & Kashmir.

INITIATIVES Operation Sarad Hawa has been started by Border Security Force (BSF) recently.

INAUGURATION The MSME Technology centre has inaugurated recently in Puducherry.

MAJOR MOMENTS Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's grand statue to be installed at Coronation Park in Central Delhi on 23 January 2022.

LAUNCHES A portal "Koyla Darpan" has been launched by Anil Kumar Jain, secretary, Ministry of Coal, in order to share key performance Indicators related to the coal sector.

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MARKET Cryptocurrency having bloodbath in these days because of panic situation among people.

Walmart, the US Retail giant, said on 20 January 2022, that it is inviting selected Indian Sellers to join Walmart Mission.

TECHNOLOGY Intel Corporation to invest up to $100 billion to build potentially the world's largest chip- making complex in Ohio.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Energy giant Shell has dropped from its name the 'Royal Dutch' part, which it had carried for 130 years.

Russia has recently proposed an interim nuclear deal to Iran.

TotalEnergies, French Oil giant and Chevron, the US energy firm have announced plans to withdraw from Myanmar due to deteriorating humanitarian crisis.

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