TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. President Smt. Droupadi Murmu addresses inaugural Ceremony of Aadi Mahotsav at Major Dhyanchand Stadium, New Delhi.
2. PM Modi will virtually inaugurate the ‘Khelo India University Games- 2024 Ashtalakshmi being held in Guwahati on 19th February.
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses ‘Viksit Bharat Viksit Gujarat’ programme via video conferencing.
4. Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) 2023 introduces groundbreaking changes to alleviate overcrowding in prisons, with a focus on justice for undertrials. This is a step towards ensuring timely justice and reducing the prison population.
5. Aadi Mahotsav 2024- an annual National Tribal Festival begins at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi. Over 300 stalls offers a varied display of Tribal art, handicrafts, natural produce, and delectable tribal cuisine in the festival.
6. Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 replaces outdated terms like ‘British calendar year’ with ‘Gregorian calendar year’, doing away with the colonial legacy.
7. Information and Broadcasting, Secretary Sanjay Jaju inaugurated the Publications Division stall at the World Book Fair in New Delhi.
8. A 3-day grand celebrations to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of Arya Samaj kicks off at his birth place Tankara in Morbi district of Gujarat.
9. Former Congress leader Baba Siddiqui on Saturday joined the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party in Mumbai.
10. Rashtriya Janata Dal national spokesman Manoj Jha on Saturday said all MLAs of the party will be putting up at the residence of Tejashwi Yadav in Patna until Monday when they will vote against the ruling National Democratic Alliance during the trust vote.
11. Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Saturday started an indefinite fast demanding that a special session of the state legislature be convened in two days to convert the draft notification on “blood relatives” of Kunbi Marathas into a law.
12. The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned sine die on Saturday, marking the conclusion of the Budget session of Parliament before the Lok Sabha elections later this year. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said the 17 Lok Sabha passed 222 bills in the last five years.
13. CAA WILL BE IMPLEMENTED BEFORE 2024 POLLS: Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), enacted in 2019, will be implemented before the Lok Sabha polls after issuing the rules in this regard.
“Our Muslim brothers are being misled and instigated (against the CAA). The CAA is only meant to give citizenship to those who came to India after facing persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. It is not for snatching anyone’s Indian citizenship,” he said.
14. President Smt. Droupadi Murmu will arrive in Port Blair on February 19 on a five-day visit to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an official said on Saturday. This will be Murmu’s first visit to the archipelago after becoming the President of India in 2022.
15. Himachal Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri’s wife Simmi Agnihotri died of a heart attack. She was 56.
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LEGAL REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Joan Donoghue
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1. The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned the petition filed by BJP leader Subramaniam Swamy seeking to delete the words ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Dutta posted the matter in the week commencing from April 29.
2. As even the names of places become contested in strife-torn Manipur, the upcoming Manipur assembly session (28 Feb) is likely to see a Bill that proposes using names not authorised by the government a punishable offence.
3. Haryana government on Saturday ordered the suspension of mobile internet services and bulk SMS in seven districts ahead of farmers’ proposed ‘Delhi Chalo’ march on February 13.
Haryana’s Home Affairs department announce that suspends Mobile internet services in Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa. Order will be in effect from 6 am of 11th February to 11:59 pm of 13th February.
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FINANCE
#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.
#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank : Ajay Banga
#IMF MD: Kristalina Georgieva
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💰 USD ₹ 83.02
💷 GBP ₹ 104.82
€ Euro : ₹ 89.50
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GDP rate (2023 ) : 6.5% ( $3.75 trillion)
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
Inflation rate : Retail Inflation 5.69% in Dec 2023
Population : 141.81 cr
(17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 7.8%
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1. JINDAL stainless signs mou with msme technology centre for manufacturing missile components. The aim of the MoU is to capitalise on Jindal Stainless’ expertise in strategic material supply and the manufacturing capabilities of the MSME Technology Centre.
2. In Bengaluru: Railway board sanctions automatic signalling on six major routes at cost of Rs 874 crore. Automatic block signalling helps to operate more trains through existing tracks and also ensure punctuality.
3. The City Crime Branch (CCB) of Coimbatore city police arrested a deputy branch manager and two cashiers of IndusInd Bank’s Avinashi Road branch here for misappropriation of Rs 7.33 crore.
4. The RBI has increased the ceiling on fees payable to non-executive directors of banks to 30 lakh rupees per year from the existing level of 20 Lakh rupees.
5. India’s Fintech interface ‘UPI’ is set to be launched in Sri Lanka on Monday. The interface will be linked to LankaQR. As per media reports, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said that the leaders of both countries will connect online for the launch event. UPI is an instant real-time payment system developed by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) :
R Madhavan
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
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1. Veteran actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata on Saturday morning. He has been diagnosed with an Ischemic Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke) of the brain.
2. Renowned artist A Ramachandran died from prolonged illness at his residence here on Saturday. He was 89. Ramachandran will be cremated at Lodi Road crematorium on Monday at 2.30 pm. . In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi and received the Padma Bhushan for outstanding service to the nation in 2005.
3. Sony Music Group has finalised an agreement to purchase half of Michael Jackson’s publishing and recorded masters catalogue. Sources close to the deal indicate that the valuation of these music assets surpasses $1.2 billion.
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DEFENCE
#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President
#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh
#Def Minister of State :
Ajay Bhatt
#Union Home : Amit Shah
#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval
#Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM
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1. Indian Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar inaugurated a new radar system along with other facilities at INS Utkrosh in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands during his 3-day visit to the strategic Tri-Services Command to strengthen Andaman and Nicobar Command’s (ANC) security apparatus.
2. The Precision Approach Radar (PAR) at INS Utkrosh, located on South Andaman Island, along with the facilities manufactured domestically by a company in Chennai, will provide highly accurate horizontal and vertical guidance to safely land aircraft during adverse weather conditions such as heavy rain and fog. Additionally, the Integrated Underwater Harbour Defence and Surveillance System (IUHDSS) was also inaugurated at Naval Jetty, Port Blair, to augment the security apparatus of Port Blair.
3. Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, Chief of the Air Staff, paid a visit to the Military Institute of Technology (MILIT) in Girinagar, Pune, on February 9. During the visit, he engaged with all participants of the 6th Defence Services Technical Staff Course (DSTSC).
4. Indian Air Force on Saturday informed that it has signed a contract with state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for the procurement of software-based light weight man-portable radio communication sets. The indigenously developed communication sets will use components implemented by the means of software as against the conventional ones that use analogue hardware for the purpose.
5. Indian Coast Guard Ship ‘Samarth’ has successfully conducted a comprehensive demonstration of pollution response at sea.
6. RUDRAM-3 WILL HAVE A GROUND ATTACK VARIANT WITH PENETRATION-CUM-BLAST (PCB) WARHEAD: Rudram is a series of air-to-surface ground attack and anti-radiation missiles in development by the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India. It can be launched from a range of altitudes with large standoff distance for destroying enemy surveillance radars, communication stations and bunkers.
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President: Sergio Mattarella
Prime Minister: Giorgia Meloni
Currency 💶Euro
Italy officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
THE ITALIAN NATIONAL BIRD is the Italian sparrow (Passer Italiae).
THE NATIONAL ANIMAL is the Apennine wolf or Italian wolf (canis lupus italicus).
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In Bharat there are 28 states and 8 Union territories.
Population of Bharat:
142 cr (2023)
President of Bharat ,
Smt Droupadi Murmu
Vice President
Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar
Prime Minister : Shri Narendra Modi
Speaker Lok Sabha :
Shri Om Birla (BJP)
Rajyasabha Seats : 245 (233 Elected + 12 Nominated)
Loksabha : 550 members (530 States + 20 Union Territories)
Chief Election Commissioner:
Shri Rajiv Kumar
11 Feb (Sunday)
Vedic Ritu/ Shishir Ritu
Drik Ritu : Shishir Ritu
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2080
Shaka Samvat – 1945
Month : Magha 2 (Amanta)
Magha 17, (Purnimanta) Nakshatr:Shatabhisha (up to 5:39 pm)
Purva Bhadrapada
Tithi : Dwitiya
Rahu 04:52 PM – 06:16 PM
Yamaganda 12:41 PM – 02:05 PM
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