1. India administers over 176.86 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses; Recovery rate stands at 98.49%
2. The Ministry of Education has launched a Bhasha Certificate Selfie Campaign to encourage cultural diversity and promote multilingualism and to foster the spirit of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat.
3. Bhasha Certificate Selfie initiative aims to promote Bhasha Sangam mobile app, developed by Ministry of Education and MyGov India. Using the app, people can learn 100 sentences of daily use in 22 scheduled Indian languages.
4. Election Commission has said that the seizures valuing more than 1,000 crore rupees were made in the ongoing Assembly Elections of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa. However, the voting in Goa, Punjab and Uttarakhand have already concluded.
5. Union Minister for MSME, Narayan Rane announced establishment of MSME-Technology Centre at Sindhudurg and launched the MSME RuPay Credit Card on Friday. The MSME-Technology Center to be set up at Sindhudurg at a cost of about Rs 200 crore will enhance the competitiveness of MSME industries. It will also provide advisory support for technology as well as its intuition by enhancing the employment potential of unemployed youth in the area of those industries.
6. ASSAM : President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in Guwahati on Friday on a three-day visit to Assam, where he will take part in a series of programmes including the launch of the 400th birth anniversary celebrations of legendary Ahom general Lachit Borphukan in Guwahati.
LACHIT BORPHUKAN was a commander and Borphukan in the Ahom kingdom, located in present-day Assam, India, known for his leadership in the 1671 Battle of Saraighat that thwarted a drawn-out attempt by Mughal forces under the command of Ramsingh I to take over Ahom kingdom.
7. DELHI; Night Curfew to be Lifted, Schools to Resume With Fully Offline Classes from April 1: CM Kejriwal
8. ODISHA : Former Odisha CM Hemananda Biswal passed away on 25 Feb at the age of 82 while undergoing treatment for pneumonia at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar. He had served as Odisha’s CM from December 1989-March 1990 and from December 1999-March 2000.
9. RAJASTHAN: on 23 Feb reverted to the old scheme to provide guaranteed pension to state govt employees. With this announcement in the state Budget, the 18-year-old contributory ‘New Pension Scheme’ comes to an end. Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot said that, for all employees appointed after January 1, 2004, will implement the old pension scheme from the coming year.
10. TAMIL NADU : The Central Bureau of Investigation CBI has arrested NSE’s former group operating officer Anand Subramanian in the alleged irregularities in the stock market manipulation case. He was arrested from his Chennai home
11. UTTAR PRADESH : The election campaign for the fifth phase of polling ended in Uttar Pradesh on Friday evening as the silence period kicks off under the model code of conduct. Polling on 61 seats of 12 districts will be held on 27th February. The district going to poll In this phase are Barabanki Raebareli Pratapgarh Kaushambi Prayagraj Ayodhya Sravasti Bahraich Gonda Sultanpur, Amethi and Chitrakoot.
12. Uttar Pradesh government has issued a 24X7 helpline number to help people from the state who are stranded in Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
FINANCE:
13. According to SEBI, Sunitha Anand, wife of former NSE official Anand Subramanian, arrested by the CBI, was hired at an annual salary of ₹60 lakh at NSE. Between 2013 and 2016, her compensation was more than doubled from ₹60 lakh to ₹1.34 crore. Her contract was foreclosed in December 2016, the same month as Chitra Ramkrishna’s exit from NSE.
ENTERTAINMENT:
14. Actor Sonu Sood took to Twitter and requested the Indian Embassy to find an alternate route for the evacuation of Indian citizens stuck in Ukraine. “There are 18,000 Indian students and many families who are stuck on Ukraine, I am sure the Government must be trying their best to get them back,” Sood tweeted.
15. Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress Sally Kellerman passed away at 84 on Thursday. She died of heart failure at her home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, her manager Alan Eichler said. Sally had a career of more than 60 years in films and television
DEFENCE:
16. A joint military exercise, EX DHARMA GUARDIAN-2022, between India and Japan will be conducted at Foreign Training Node, Belagavi in Karnataka from 27th February to 10th of March.
17. Exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN is an annual training event which is being conducted in India since 2018. Notably, in the series of military training exercises undertaken by India with various countries, Exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN with Japan is crucial and significant in terms of security challenges faced by both nations in the backdrop of current global situation.
18. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said that the Government’s commitment towards reduction in imports and modernisation of armed forces with indigenous technology has been given further impetus in this budget.
19. Approval for the appointment of Air Marshal Sreekumar Prabhakaran as the new Commander of IAF’s Western Command Headquarters from 01 March.
20. Providing a further boost to the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the government in the defence sector, the acquisition wing of the Ministry of Defence has today signed a contract for ₹1,075 crore with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for the retro-modification of Commander Sight of Battle Tanks-T-90.
What does retro-modification mean:
The new retro-modified commander sight employs a thermal imager capable of detecting the targets at 8 km during day and night and a Laser Ranger Finder (LRF) to find the ranges accurately up to 5 km, thereby enhancing its capability to engage the target at longer ranges.
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FINANCE:
USD 75.06
💷 GBP 100.67
BSE Sensex: 55,858.52
NIFTY: 16,658.40*
GOA: Panaji (Panjim)
Formation : 30 May 1987
Governor: P. S. Sreedharan Pillai
CM : Pramod Sawant (BJP)
Districts: 2
🥇Gold ₹50,820 @10 gm 24 (Krt)
🥈 Silver ₹70,000@ Kg
⛽ Petrol ₹ 96.80
⛽ Diesel ₹ 87.67
LPG : ₹890/14.2 Kg (Panjim)/ &
in South Goa ₹.914
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26 Feb (Saturday)
Shishir Ritu: Krishna पक्ष::
Month: Phalguna 10, (Purnimata)/ Magha 25 (Amanta)
According to Purnimanta calendar (Ujjain)
Vikram Samvat – 2078
Nakshatra : Moola (up to 10:32 am) Purva Ashadha
Titi: Dashami (up to 10:39 am) Ekadashi
Rahu Kaal :09:47 AM – 11:13 AM
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