1. PM Modi launched various development programmes in Tumkuru after inaugurating the country’s biggest helicopter manufacturing plant in HAL, Bengaluru, Karnataka. Prime Minister Modi is on one –day visit to Karnataka.
2. Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri has said that around 123 lakh houses were sanctioned under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) during the last fiscal of which 68 lakh houses were completed.
3. Union Environment, Forest & Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav to brief media on 1st Environment & Climate Sustainability Working Group Meeting under G20 Presidency of India to be held at Bengaluru from 9-11 Feb 2023, at Teesta Hall, First Floor, Vayu Block, Indira Pariyavaran Bhavan New Delhi at 2:30 PM.
4. Assam to host first Youth20 (Y20) Inception Meeting 2023 from 6th-8th Feb, 2023 in IIT-Guwahati campus.
5. Pawan Hans Limited to launch helicopter services on six routes in Assam from 8th February.
6. Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed two election rallies in Tripura on Monday at Khowai in the Khowai district and Santirbazar in the South Tripura district.
7. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi House adjourned without electing mayor for third time in a month on Monday. A ruckus erupted over the nominated members being allowed to vote in the election to the post.
8. Congress party has launched a nationwide protest from Parliament to the streets on Monday. It will be protesting outside the branches of the Life Insurance Corporation(LIC) and State Bank of India(SBI).
9. Congress Party has Launched ‘Haath Se Haath Jodo’ Yatra in at Medaram in Mulugu mandal of Warangal district, Telangana on Monday.
10. Drinking water supply to be disrupted in parts of Hyderabad, Telangana on Feb 8 for 24 hours from 6 am on due to pipeline repair works at Kokapet.
11. PM-KUSUM (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Uttham Mahabhiyan) to install 30,000 MW solar power capacity in rural India by 2022, has been pushed to March 2026.
12. As part of India’s G20 presidency, Gujarat to host first three –day Tourism Working Group (TWG) meeting in state’s Rann of Kutch.
13. Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is slated to visit poll-bound Tripura next month to campaign for party candidates.
14. The 13 th Convocation of JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (JSS AHER), Mysuru held on February 6 at JSS Medical College.
15. 119 km Bengaluru – Mysuru Expressway, developed under the Union Government’s flagship Bharatmala Pariyojana (BMP), will be officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the first week of March.
16. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurated a three-day orientation programme on parliamentary procedure for probationers of the 72nd batch of Indian Revenue Service in Parliament House Complex.
17. Indian Railways Launches WhatsApp Food Delivery Facility ‘Zoop’. Passengers traveling in Indian Railways can now order food online through WhatsApp while undertaking a journey by using their PNR number.
18. National Testing Agency, (NTA) to begin JEE Main 2023 Session 2 Registrations from Feb 7, 2023 onwards.
19. Five new Supreme Court judges took oath on Monday. Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud administered the oath to the newly sworn-in judges in the presence of all judges of the Supreme Court.
The newly sworn-in judges are :
(i) Justice Pankaj Mithal, Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.
(ii) Justice Sanjay Karol, Chief Justice of Patna High Court.
(iii) Justice P. V. Sanjay Kumar, Chief Justice of Manipur High Court.
(iv) Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Judge, Patna High Court and
(v) Justice Manoj Misra, Judge, Allahabad High Court.
Currently, the Supreme Court of India has a sanctioned strength of thirty-four Judges and is presently functioning with twenty-seven Judges.
CRIME REPORT
1. National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested seven accused from Phulwarisharif area in Bihar in connection with the Popular Front of India (PFI) case.
2. The Supreme Court on Monday advanced to February 7 the hearing on a plea challenging the appointment of lawyer Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri as a judge of the Madras high court, soon after the Centre notified her judgeship.
3. Police and district administrations across Chhattisgarh have recovered and returned ₹30 crore to 37,000 investors, who had been cheated by chit fund scams.
4. Supreme Court to hear bail pleas of Christian Michel James, an alleged middleman in Agusta Westland chopper scam in which the CBI & ED have lodged two separate cases.
An Agusta Westland VVIP chopper scam is a corruption case where it has been alleged that bribes were paid to “middlemen”, perhaps even politicians, when India agreed to buy 12 AgustaWestland helicopters built by Italian defence manufacturing giant Finmeccanica at an estimated cost of Rs 3,600 crore.
February 2010, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of the time signed a contract to purchase 12 AgustaWestland AW101 helicopters at Rs 3,600 crore. These helicopters were supposed to be used for ferrying the President of India, the Prime Minister, and other such very, very important people. Former Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi: Tyagi was arrested on 9 December 2016 in connection with the case.
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1. In a major relief to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs): Centre orders Ministries to refund performance/bid security and liquidated damages forfeited deducted during Covid-19.
2. Telangana Budget: Finance Minister Harish Rao presented Budget for financial year 2023-24 in Vidhan Sabha at Hyderabad. Rs 22,260 crore proposed for Roads & Buildings Department.
3. Budget Session of Mizoram Assembly to be held from Feb 7 to Feb 28 at Aizawl; Budget session to begin with customary address by Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati.
4. Central government is likely to increase the dearness allowance (DA) for its over one crore employees and pensioners by four percentage points to 42% from the existing 38%.
5. HDFC Bank tie-up with NIIT for training program for relationship management roles.
6. What is the issue with Adani Group?
On December 21, 2022, the market cap (at the close of trade) of the firm stood at Rs 4.45 lakh crore. Hindenburg Research in its report accused the conglomerate of “brazen stock manipulation, money laundering, and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades”.
Since the time US-based Hindenburg Research firm released its report on January 24, accusing Gautam Adani’s group of tax evasion, fraud schemes, and stock manipulations among others, the Indian conglomerate’s listed stocks have witnessed massive losses in valuation. Adani’s losses topped $110 billion. The group has dismissed the charges as lies.
Adani Enterprises recently decided to call off its ₹20,000 crore follow-on public offer and return the money it had collected from investors.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
1. Indian music composer and producer Ricky Kej becomes the only living Indian to win Grammy award thrice.
2. Actor Vijay’s ‘Varisu’ has crossed ₹300 crore mark in worldwide collections. Across India, the film has collected around ₹214 crore, out of which the Vijay-starrer earned approximately ₹143.75 crore in Tamil Nadu.
3. Robert Dalva, the film editor who earned an Oscar nomination for his work on the family adventure ‘The Black Stallion’ has died. He collaborated with director Joe Johnston on five films, including ‘Jumanji’ and ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’. He was 80.
DEFENCE
1. Light Combat Aircraft (Navy) and MIG29 K Fighter Aircraft successfully performed maiden landing and take off from India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant.
2. The first batch of aircraft participating at Aero India 2023 – those partaking in flypast and flying display – are scheduled to land in Bengaluru on February 7, while the other batch of planes (static display) will arrive between February 8 and 12.
3. Indian Air Force (IAF) launched a revised doctrine and laid out the role of air power in the “no war, no peace scenario” (NWNP). The doctrine highlighted the use of air power as part of a joint military strategy involving the two other forces.
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