Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 8 February to 14 February 2023

February Weekly One Liner Current Affairs Part 2

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National News

• India’s first new mobility focussed cluster Telangana Mobility Valley’ (TMV) in Telangana
• Ministry of Education launched “Yuva Sangam Portal”
• Kala Ghoda Arts Festival begins in Mumbai
• Union government extends Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban scheme up to 2024
• IIT Madras signed MoU with ISRO to develop astronaut training module
• Reliance unveils India’s 1st hydrogen combustion engine for heavy duty
• Bangladesh will receive electricity from power plant in Jharkhand
• National School of Drama to organize the 22nd edition of the Bharat Rang Mahotsav
• Visva-Bharati to be world’s first Living Heritage University
• Agriculture Ministry signed MoU with Digital Green to develop national-level digital extension platform
• India ranks first with 24 percent contribution to global milk production
• Karnataka CM launched 108 Namma Clinics in Bengaluru
• UP Government launched ‘Family ID’ portal
• First G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group Meeting begins in Bengaluru
• Ashwini Vaishnaw launched ‘Digital Payments Utsav’ in New Delhi
• 68th India International Garment Fair inaugurated in Greater Noida
• PM Modi inaugurated Arabic Academy in Mumbai
• India received $89,127 million, highest ever remittances in 2021-22
• Himachal Pradesh CM laid the foundation of ‘Himachal Niketan’ in Delhi
• ADB approved $130 million loan to promote horticulture in Himachal Pradesh
• 11th India-Mongolia Joint Working Group Meeting Held in New Delhi
• Inception Meeting of G-20 empower group of Women & Child Development Ministry begins in Agra
• 12th World Hindi Conference to be held in Fiji
• ‘Operation Dost’ launched by India to help Turkey and Syria
• Meta Launched #DigitalSuraksha campaign in partnership with MeitY
• PM Narendra Modi flagged off 2 Vande Bharat Express trains from Mumbai
• Ministry of Culture organized Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav-2023
• Alkesh Kumar inaugurated first International Conference on Digital Skilling
• Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated AMRPTEX 2023 at Delhi
• Strict Anti-Copying Law comes into force in Uttarakhand
• First National Lok Adalat of 2023 held in Jammu & Kashmir
• Digital economy working group meeting of G20 held in Lucknow
• DHARA (Driving Holistic Action for Urban Rivers) Annual Meeting of Members of The River Cities Alliance to be held in Pune
• President Murmu inaugurated 2nd Indian Rice Congress in Cuttack, Odisha
• Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) signed MoU with National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) for setting up of digital forensic library
• PM Modi inaugurated Dayanand Saraswati’s 200th birth anniversary event
• India jumped to 55th place in ICAO Aviation Safety Oversight Ranking
• ASEAN Digital Ministers meeting approved India-ASEAN Digital Work Plan 2023
• PM Modi inaugurated first phase of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway

International News

• Reliance retail becomes first to accept digital rupee at stores
• RBI increased the repo rate by 0.25 percent to 6.5 percent
• World’s first ‘Super’ magnets for testing in nuclear plant developed
• Google introduced AI chatbot ‘Bard’
• World Government Summit 2023 Set to Begin in Dubai
• Quad countries launch ‘Quad Cyber Challenge’

Banking and Financial

• Airtel Payments Bank launched BizKhata for Small Businesses & Merchant
• Ujjivan SFB launched app for digitally challenged
• MobiKwik becomes India’s first app to support credit cards on UPI
• South Indian Bank launched wealth management platform
• SBI opens 3rd specialized Startup branch in Gurugram

Appointment and Resignation

• Apsara Iyer becomes first Indian American woman president of Harvard Law Review
• K Satyanarayana Raju appointed as MD and CEO of Canara Bank
• Indian-American student Natasha Perianayagam named as ‘World’s Brightest’ student
• President Draupadi Murmu appointed new governors in 13 states
• Nikos Christodoulides elected as the new president of Cyprus

Awards

• Peggy Mohan won ‘Mathrubhumi Book of The Year’ award 2023
• Rakhi Kapoor awarded Golden Book Awards 2023 for ‘NowYou Breathe’
• VP Nandakumar, Manappuram Finance gets Hurun India award 2023
• Appasaheb Dharmadhikari honoured with Maharashtra Bhushan award
• Journalist A.B.K. Prasad selected for Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award

Defence

• Defence ministry partnered with Larsen & Toubro for modular bridges

Science

• Skye Air launched India’s first traffic management system for drones

Sports

• Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) won the title of National Ice Hockey Championship 2023
• Australia’s Aaron Finch announced retirement from International Cricket
• Women’s Premier League to be held in Mumbai
• Aditi Ashok won Kenya Ladies Open title 2023
• Kamran Akmal announced retirement from all forms of cricket
• Anurag Thakur flagged off Formula E-Championship in Hyderabad
• Ashwin becomes the fastest Indian to pick up 450 Test wickets
• Rohit Sharma becomes first Indian captain to score a ton across all formats
• 5th Khelo India Youth Games concluded in Bhopal
• Jean-Eric Vergne won action-packed Formula E in Hyderabad

Book and Author

• Salman Rushdie’s new novel ‘Victory City’ released

Important day

• 7 February – Safer Internet Day
• 10 February – World Pulses Day (Theme 2023- Pulses for a sustainable future)
• 11 February – World Unani Day (Theme 2023 – Unani Medicine for Public Health)
• 11 February – International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Theme 2023 – IDEAS (Innovate, Demonstrate, Elevate, Advance, Sustain)
• 12 February – International Darwin Day
• 13 February – World Radio Day (Theme 2023 – Radio and Peace)
• 12 February – National Productivity Day (Theme 2022 – A chance to set goals)

Obituary

• Popular artist B.K.S. Verma passed away