TODAY’S TOP NEWS
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1. An earthquake of 3.0 magnitude struck Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region on Sunday. As per the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake occurred at 11:48 am yesterday (25 Feb) .
2. President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate day long ‘Purple Fest’ at Amrit Udyaan in Rashtrapati Bhawan.
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Mann Ki Baat Highlights @ 25 Feb (Sunday) :
(a) In Kalahandi, Odisha, goat rearing is becoming a major means of improving the livelihood of the village people as well as their standard of living.
(b) Venkappa Ambaji Sugetkar ji, resident of Bagalkot, Karnataka, is a folk singer. He has sung more than 1000 Gondhali songs and has also widely propagated stories in this language.
(c) PM Modi said on Sunday that his monthly ‘Mann Ki Baat’ broadcast will not be aired for the next three months in line with political decorum in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
https://saachibaat.com/politics/exclusive-todays-top-news-25-february-2024/
(e) Prime Minister appreciates contribution of young entrepreneurs in new innovations for wildlife conservation and eco-tourism.
(f) Tribal families living in Khatkali village near Melghat Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra have converted their houses into home stays with the help of the government. This is becoming a big source of income for them.
(g) Banwang Losu ji of Tirap in Arunachal Pradesh is a teacher. He has made an important contribution in the spread of Wancho language. This language is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and some parts of Assam.
(h) Mohammad Manshah ji of Ganderbal in Jammu and Kashmir preserving Gojri language.
4. PM Modi on Sunday inaugurated All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Rajkot in Gujarat and e-dedicated to the nation four more AIIMS at Bathinda (Punjab), Raebareli (Uttar Pradesh), Kalyani (West Bengal) and Mangalagiri (Andhra Pradesh). PM also said “Nation is confident of ‘Ab ki baar 400 paar’,” while addressing a public meeting in Rajkot, Gujarat.
5. PM Modi will visit Bihar on March 2 to launch a number of projects and address public meetings, state BJP president Samrat Choudhary said on Sunday.
6. PM Modi on Sunday enjoyed scuba diving off the Arabian Sea coast at the Panchkui beach in Dwarka in Gujarat and said to pray in the city of Dwarka, which is immersed in waters, was a “very divine experience”. Scuba diving is conducted off the coast of Dwarka near Beyt Dwarka island, () where people can see the underwater remains of ancient Dwarka that were excavated by archaeologists.
7. In Arunachal Pradesh ahead of polls, two Congress MLAs and as many legislators from the National People’s Party joined the ruling BJP on Sunday.
8. Two former Odisha MLAs join BJP: In Odisha, former minister and four-time Biju Janata Dal legislator Debasis Nayak, and ex-Congress MLA Nihar Ranjan Mohananda on Sunday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
9. The Bahujan Samaj Party Lok Sabha MP from Ambedkar Nagar Ritesh Pandey on Sunday resigned from the party’s primary membership and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi.
10. Days after Congress and SP finalised their seat-sharing pact for the Lok Sabha polls, SP president Akhilesh Yadav with a large number of party supporters joined Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in its final ‘UP-leg’, in Agra on Sunday.
11. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s government will introduce the ‘Uttarakhand Public and Private Property Damage Recovery Bill’ in the assembly during the budget session beginning 26 February.
12. TMC announced, Janagarjan Rally for March 10 : The Trinamul Congress on Sunday set a date with the Brigade Parade ground which by all appearance will be the launch of the party’s campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The party’s all India general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said.
13. The Odisha state cabinet has approved extending its farmer welfare scheme KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation) for another three years from 2024-2025 to 2026-2027.
14. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Saturday finalised the seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming 2024 elections in Tamil Nadu and has decided to allocate one seat to its alliance partner, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). Another seat was given to Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi.
15. Lakhs of women devotees offered Pongala to Attukal Bhagavathy in Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala. Attukal Pongala held in Attukal Temple is considered to be the largest congregation of women for a festival in the world.
16. Amrit Bharat Station Scheme: Sabarmati railway station being redeveloped to provide world class amenities.
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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. : Nawaf Salam
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1. A Lashkar-e-Tayiba terror module was busted on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district with the arrest of four militant associates, the police said.
2. The West Bengal police on Sunday detained local Trinamool Congress leader Ajit Maiti at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas on charges of land grabbing from villagers.
3. Six members of an independent fact-finding committee led by former Chief Justice of Patna High Court L Narasimha Reddy were stopped by police as they were proceeding to trouble-torn Sandeshkhali area in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district to probe alleged incidents of atrocities on women.
Citing Section 144 CrPC was in force in parts of Sandeshkhali and it would not be prudent to allow them access to the area even in groups of four-five.
4. Unidentified assailants shot dead the Indian National Lok Dal’s Haryana unit president Nafe Singh Rathee in Jhajjar district on Sunday. Rathee, a former MLA, was travelling in an SUV when the assailants, who were in a car, attacked him in Jhajjar’s Bahadurgarh town.
5. The Mobile internet services were restored in seven Haryana districts on Sunday, almost two weeks after they were suspended in the wake of farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation.
6. A 47-year-old member of Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) who also allegedly edited a magazine of the banned organisation besides indoctrinating many gullible youths has been arrested by the Delhi Police.
Hanif Sheikh was declared a proclaimed offender in 2002 and has been absconding for the last 22 years. He was nabbed on February 22 from Bhusawal in Jalgaon district in Maharashtra where he was a teacher in an Urdu school under a different identity.
“”””””””” MISHAPS “”””””””””
1. A major fire broke out at the Badmal ordnance factory in Odisha’s Bolangir district on Sunday, However, no injuries have been reported in the incident that took place in the evening.
2. Three persons, including two women, were killed by an elephant in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district on Sunday. The incident happened in Kodwatand panchayat.
3. At least four people died after an explosion at a firecracker factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi on Sunday.
4. A goods train halted at Kathua station in Jammu started running towards Pathankot in Punjab without its driver at a speed of over 100 km per hour before being brought to a halt near Ucchi Bassi in Mukerian.
Fortunately, any untoward incident was avoided as a message was sent to all gatemen to keep the level-crossings closed.
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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 ₹ 82.88
💷 GBP ₹ 105.09
€ Euro : ₹ 89.82
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GDP(PPP ) :
purchasing power parity (PPP)
$13.119 trillion
GDP (nominal)
: $3.73 trillion
(Nominal means total market value of all goods and services produced in a country’s economy) .
GDP growth : 7.6% (Q2 2023-24)
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
Inflation rate : Retail Inflation 5.69% in Dec 2023
Population : 143.86 cr
(17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 10.09% (Oct2023)
Per capita: This income is also known as average income as it is calculated by dividing the total income of the country by the total population of the country.
GDP per capita
$2,845 (Nominal; 2024)
$9,983 (PPP; 2024)
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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. Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday announced the setting up of a regional facilitation office of the Central Board of Film Certification in Chandigarh, with the objective of promoting ease of doing business for filmmakers of the region.
2. Filmmaker Kumar Shahani, a parallel cinema icon who directed films such as Maya Darpan, Char Adhyay and Kasba, has died at the age of 83.
3. The fifth edition of the three-day Chitra Bharati Film Festival, a collaboration between Bharatiya Chitra Sadhana and the Haryana Government, organised from February 23 to 25 at Panchkula.
4. The 30th edition of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards , Oppenheimer bagged three major awards while Killers of the Flower Moon managed to win one major award.
(a) The Awards were once again dominated by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer with Cillian Murphy getting award for best male actor in leading role.
(b) Robert Downey Junior bagged best actor in supporting role and the movie got the award for best film cast.
(c) Lily Gladstone got the best female in leading role award for Killers of the Flower Moon.
(d) The Holdovers star Da’Vine Joy Randolph was named best supporting actress.
(e) This year’s Lifetime Achievement prize was given to veteran singer and actress Barbra Streisand.
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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. India and Japan launch joint military exercise ‘DHARMA GUARDIAN’ in Rajasthan
The aim of the exercise is to foster military cooperation and enhance combined capabilities to execute joint operations.
2. Three Maoists were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on Sunday morning.
3. The Indian Air Force deployed its Dornier aircraft at short notice to airlift a team of doctors from the Army Hospital in New Delhi to retrieve a liver from Pune to save the life of an army veteran. The mission was crucial given it was conducted at short notice on February 23, the Indian Air Force said on Sunday.
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BRAZIL = Capital
Brasília
Flag: 🇧🇷
Official language : Portuguese
Goverment:
President : Lula da Silva
Vice President
Geraldo Alckmin
POPULATION :
203,062,512(in 2022)
Currency
Real (R$) (BRL)
National Animal : The Jaguar.
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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
26 Feb (Monday)
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