Today’s top News – 22 February 2023

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1. Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister chaired the National Conference on Agriculture for Zaid (Summer) Campaign-2023 in New Delhi.

2. Bengal health authorities have been asked to be vigilant after the state recently recorded a big spike in adenovirus cases.

3. The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council recently launched Pangong Tso Marathon. The marathon is the first of its kind in India.

4. Delhi Mayoral poll to be held in MCD Sadan, New Delhi at 11 AM.

5. Delhi government banned Ola, Rapido, Uber bike taxi services.

6. Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday said that school students and working women will get free rides in public buses from April 1 onwards. He made the announcement after launching KSRTC’s Volvo Multi Axle BS4-9600 sleeper buses in Bengaluru. Bommai added that mini-school buses will be deployed along with the existing buses to facilitate the scheme.

7. The 18th International Union of Railways (UIC) World Security Congress commenced in Jaipur, Rajasthan.The 3-day Conference is being jointly organized by the UIC, Paris and the Railway Protection Force (RPF).

8. First meeting of digital competition law committee, chaired by Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) Secretary Manoj Govil, to be held in New Delhi.

9. Trinamool Congress supremo & West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to address public meeting at Nekikona Tilapara Field, near New Bhaitbari, West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya.

10. 10-Day Taj Mahotsav Starts In Agra of Uttar Pradesh.

11. Uttar Pradesh State Finance Minister Suresh Khanna to table Budget 2023-24 in Vidhan Sabha at Luknow.

12. Telangana state government is likely to regularise nearly 13 lakh plots and houses that were purchased on notarised documents, on the lines of the scheme implemented for agricultural land holdings with ‘sada bainama’ (agreements written in plain paper).

13. Seven-Day national integration camp to begin at JSS Institute at Vidyagiri, Dharwad

14. National Highway Authority of India has developed a four-lane wide section from Phagwara to Rupnagar in Punjab to give a major boost to the road infrastructure in State. The project is being executed in Hybrid Annuity Mode at a cost of Rs.1,367 crore.

15. Punjab government on Tuesday approved the regularisation of services of as many as 14,417 ad hoc, contractual and temporary employees in the state, an official statement said.

16. Gulab Chand Kataria to take oath as Governor of Assam at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra, Guwahati.

CRIME REPORT

1. Central Bureau of Investigation, CBI has conducted searches under operation Kanak-2 at around 50 locations in Punjab at the premises of the Food Corporation of India, FCI .

2. A drone and six kg of heroin were recovered from a field near the international border in Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district.

3. In Telangana, a four-year-old child has been mauled to death by stray dogs in Hyderabad.

4. Supreme Court to hear petition filed by former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray challenging Election Commission of India’s (EC) decision to recognise Eknath Shinde-led faction as real Shiv Sena & allot party name & ‘bow & arrow’ poll symbol to it.

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1. Banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have almost paused tie-ups with fintech players under the first loan default guarantee (FLDG) structure for lending in the absence of clarity on contractual agreements from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

2. The President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Masatsugu Asakawa has said that despite the disruptions caused by the COVID pandemic, India remains the fastest-growing major economy with expected 7% growth in the current fiscal.

3. Secretary Ajay Seth did a press briefing on the forthcoming 1st Finance Minister & Central Bank Governors & 2nd Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBD) meetings in Bengaluru from 22-25 February 2023.

4. RBI scraps licence of MP-based Garha Co-operative Bank: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) due to insufficient capital and earning potential revoked the licence of MP’s Garha Co-operative Bank, Guna.

5. Abdalla Sultan Al Owais, the Chairman of Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) along with CG of India Dr. Aman Puri and other senior representatives from SCCI inaugurated the “Indian Business and Professional Council, Sharjah”.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

1. Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s directorial ‘The Kashmir Files’ bagged the Best Film award at Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards held in Mumbai on Monday.

2. Rupali Ganguly won the Most Versatile Actress In A Television Series at Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2023.

DEFENCE

1. The Malabar naval exercise, the most visible manifestation of the expanding military interoperability among the Quad countries, will be conducted off Australia for the first time this August.

It was started in 1992 as a bilateral naval exercise between India and US navy. The first Malabar Exercise in the Bay of Bengal took place in 2007. It was expanded into a trilateral format with the inclusion of Japan in 2015. In 2020, the Australian Navy joined the Malabar Exercise.

2. Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-Roorkee) and Indian Air Force (IAF), signed an MoU intending to promote the development of indigenous technologies and equipment through Research and Development in areas of mutual interest on February 14, 2023.

3. Indian Navy’s indigenously built Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV) INS Sumedha arrived at Abu Dhabi on 20th February to participate in NAVDEX & IDEX 2023, scheduled from 20-24 Feb 23.

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22 Feb (Wednesday)
Vedic Ritu: Shishir (Winter)
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