1. Both Houses of Parliament took up discussion on the Motion of Thanks to President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the Joint Sitting of both Houses of Parliament.
2. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurated the 36th Surajkund International Crafts Mela at Faridabad, Haryana.
3. Sixth Meeting of the Heads of Supreme Audit Institutions of SCO Member States discusses integrating new and emerging technologies with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.
4. Minister of State for Textiles, Darshana Jardosh inaugurates 68th India International Garment Fair at India Export Mart of Greater Noida. She further added that India’s annual textile and apparel export stood at 44.4 billion US dollars in financial year 2022 with an increase of 41% compared to last year.
5. Recently Minister of Tourism G. Kishan Reddy launched the Visit India Year – 2023 initiative and unveiled the logo in New Delhi.
6. The Kerala government announced a scheme of Rs 200 crore for developing green hydrogen hubs at Trivandrum and Kochi. Kerala aims to become a 100 percent renewable energy-dependent state by 2040.
7. Monthly webinar organized by Kerala IT Park in association with Inntot Technologies Pvt Ltd to be held at Thiruvananthapuram.
8. The filing of nominations for the upcoming assembly elections came to an end in Meghalaya. The scrutiny of candidates will take place tomorrow and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is 10th February.
9. Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin wrote to PM Narendra Modi requesting to consider the demand of Civil Service aspirants and to grant an extra attempt with corresponding age relaxation. This was for all aspirants who exhausted their last attempts due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
10. Budget Session of West Bengal Assembly to begin in Kolkata; budget to be tabled on Feb 15.
11. Aurus, an AI-powered robot and Triton, an AI-powered monitoring system are being used to augment life-saving capabilities on Goa’s beaches. Aurus can patrol extensive non-swim zones and alert tourists during high tide. Aurus is currently deployed at Miramar beach in North Goa.
12. Union Minister Smriti Irani’s daughter Shanelle Irani will be married to Arjun Bhalla. The wedding ceremony of daughter of Smriti Irani and Zubin Irani will be held in Khimsar Fort in Rajasthan.
CRIME REPORT
1. Supreme court to hear a petition filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) against decision of Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena permitting members nominated by him to vote in Municipal Corporation elections for post of Mayor & Deputy Mayor.
2. In Jammu and Kashmir, Police have arrested three terrorist associates of proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba in Srinagar and recovered cash amounting to more than thirty-one lakh and other incriminating materials from their possession.
3. TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Tuesday used an unparliamentary word in Lok Sabha during Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address. She used the word after finishing her speech while TDP MP Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu was addressing the Lok Sabha.
4. Rajasthan Police have registered a case against a 24-year-old man and a minor girl after a video showed them hugging on a moving motorcycle in Ajmer. The video showed the girl sitting on the motorcycle’s petrol tank facing the man and hugging him. The case was registered under IPC section 279 (rash driving) and 294 (obscene acts and songs).
5. The Delhi High Court will hear JNU student Sharjeel Imam’s bail plea on March 15. Imam, along with others, was booked under UAPA and the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the riots that left 53 people dead and more than 700 injured. The violence occurred during protests against the CAA-NRC.
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1. Economics professor and researcher Shamika Ravi has been appointed as a member of the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister (EAC-PM).
2. Managing Director & CEO, Manappuram Finance Ltd, VP Nandakumar has bagged the Hurun India’s award for his remarkable achievements in the world of business.
3. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das to unveil first monetary policy of 2023 after a two-day review amid concerns of further slowdown in economic growth and tight global financial conditions.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
1. ‘Main Bharat Hoon’ EC’s song: Election Commission of India’s creative communication techniques to increase voter turnout are playing out a song on social media with Subhash Ghai Foundation, as it prepares for the upcoming elections.
2. Three-day dance fiesta, Nritya Parva 2023 to begin at Vadodara at Gujarat.
3. Zoom Video Communications will lay off 15% of its workforce, or about 1,300 employees, CEO Eric Yuan said in a blog post.
4. Actors Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra got married on Tuesday in a wedding ceremony held in Jaisalmer. The couple took to Instagram to share pictures from the wedding.
DEFENCE
1. The 14th edition of ‘Aero India’, known as Asia’s largest aerospace exhibition, will be held in Bengaluru from February 13 to 17.
2. India is preparing to relaunch its INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier after a major refit, a critical step toward fulfilling its plan to deploy two carrier battle groups as it seeks to strengthen its regional maritime power to counter China’s increasing assertiveness.The INS Vikramaditya, a former Soviet carrier acquired from 🇷🇺Russia.
3. India has dispatched the 2nd batch of aid to Turkey with an Indian Air Force (IAF) C-17 loaded with self-contained NDRF teams, including dog squads, search & rescue equipment, extrication tools, and vehicles as part of the Humanitarian And Disaster Relief (HADR) to earthquake-hit 🇹🇷Turkey.
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