Daily Current Affairs : 14th and 15th February 2020 |Daily GK update Quiz

Exp. Arvind Kejriwal, whose party “Aam Aadmi Party”stormed to power in Delhi for the third term by winning 62 of 70 seats, is set to take oath as Chief Minister for a third term. The oath-taking ceremony is being held at the Ramlila Maidan.

Exp. India and Portugal signed 14 agreements to boost cooperation in a range of areas, including defense, investment, transport, ports, culture, and industrial and intellectual property rights and yoga. The agreements were signed after extensive talks between PM Narendra Modi and Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in New Delhi.

Exp. Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh on 14th February performed “bhoomi poojan” ceremony of AIIMS building in J&K. Speaking on the occasion, Singh said that Jammu and Kashmir has been allocated two AIIMS – one in Jammu and other in Kashmir.

The Union Government had approved the proposal for setting up an AIIMS in Jammu at Vijaypur, District Samba under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) in January 2019.

Exp. The regulator has constituted a municipal bonds development committee headed by its Executive Director Sujit Prasad and comprises representatives from municipal corporations, lawyers, professionals and market practitioners.

Exp. On Valentine`s day (14th February), `Pyaar ka Paudha` (a plant of love) campaign has been launched by the Bihar government`s Department of Environment and Forest in Patna, to encourage the practice of planting trees in the state. It`s good for the environment and climate.

Exp. The Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra, a cultural centre reflecting India’s connect with its diaspora, has been renamed Sushma Swaraj Bhavan, who was known for reaching out to distressed Indians globally.

Exp. The Foreign Service Institute, a renowned institution where diplomats are trained, will now be called Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service.

Exp. BioAsia, organised by the Government of Telangana, has announced that the Genome Valley Excellence Award will be bestowed upon Dr Carl H June, CAR-T Cell Therapy Pioneer, Richard W Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Dr Vas (Vasant) Narasimhan, CEO, Novartis.

Exp. BioAsia, organised by the Government of Telangana, has announced that the Genome Valley Excellence Award will be bestowed upon Dr Carl H June, CAR-T Cell Therapy Pioneer, Richard W Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Dr Vas (Vasant) Narasimhan, CEO, Novartis.

Exp. India’s pioneering feminist scholar and activist Gita Sen, has won the prestigious Dan David Prize.

Exp. Three weeks after Kobe Bryant, one of the most dominant players in NBA history, was killed with his daughter and seven others in a helicopter crash, the global sports icon was named a finalist to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Exp. In between the privatisation process of Air India, the government appointed Rajiv Bansal, an additional secretary with the oil and gas ministry, as the new CMD of the state-owned airline. He will replace Ashwani Lohani, the current Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), who didn’t agree to extend his one-year contract, which expired on February 11.

Exp. Veteran space scientist G Narayanan has been named the chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation’s newly formed commercial entity New Space India Ltd (NSIL).

Exp. Indian environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, under whose leadership a U.N. climate change panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has died after recent heart surgery. The Energy and Resources Institute, or TERI, a research group he headed until 2016 in New Delhi.