1. PM Modi to inaugurate India Energy Week 2023 in Bengaluru; to dedicate HAL helicopter factory to the nation in Tumakaru. The India Energy Week will be held from 6th to 8th February.
2. The first meeting of the Youth -20 engagement group under India’s G20 presidency will be held in Guwahati, Assam.
3. The First G-20 Energy Transition Working Group meeting was inaugurated in Bengaluru on Feb 5.
Power Minister R K Singh calls upon G20 partners for united fight against global warming & climate change.
4. Indian Railways introduces Garvi Gujarat tour under Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat Scheme to showcase heritage of Gujarat.
5. The second sale of wheat through e-auction will be held throughout the country on the 15th of February.
6. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu launched 5G services in Itanagar on Saturday.
7. AirAsia has announced that it will shift its operations to Bengaluru airport’s Terminal 2 from February 15.
8. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced a seven-step policy for mitigating air-pollution in the city. The plan was announced under the ‘Clean Air Mumbai’ initiative when BMC presented its ₹52,619.07 crore budget for FY 2023-24.
9. Tata Power’s 4GW solar cell and 4GW solar module facility in Tamil Nadu is likely to be operational by December-end, CEO and MD Praveer Sinha said.
10. In West Bengal, Suman Kanjilal, MLA from Alipurduar in north Bengal, joined Trinamool today after meeting the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in Kolkata.
11. Telangana Martyrs’ Memorial: A Rs 179-crore project about to become the world’s largest seamless stainless steel structure. The polished and puffed exterior may evoke similarities to the ‘Cloud Gate’ or the Chicago ‘Bean’ and ‘The Bubble’ in the western Chinese city of Karamay.
12. Reacting to the tweet of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor calling ex-Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf “real force for peace”, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that Tharoor should read the history of Kargil War once again.
CRIME REPORT
1. Clashes erupted between two factions of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday afternoon over the election of a madrasa management committee in the Ratua area of West Bengal’s Malda district. Gun firings and bombings were reported in the area following the tension. According to police, at least three people sustained serious injuries.
2. In a massive crackdown on anti-social elements, Kerala Police on Sunday arrested 2,507 people across the state. The arrests were made after raiding 3,501 places since February 4.
3. Residents of Jammu and Kashmir’s Dhangri threatened to go on a hunger strike if security forces don’t neutralise terrorists in 15 days. On January 1, during a terror attack on Dhangri, seven people were killed and 14 injured.
4. The Orissa High Court has directed the Centre to file an affidavit within two weeks with latest status of the probe into the espionage case of 2021 relating to Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Chandipur.
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1. Union Budget 2023 announced a “voluntary settlement scheme with standardised terms” to amicably end commercial/contractual disputes concerning government undertakings in which arbitral awards are under challenge in a court.
2. VIVAD SE VISHWAS SCHEME: It is a direct tax scheme introduced by the Government of India in 2020 for settling disputes between taxpayers and the income tax department.
It aims to minimize tax-related litigation.
Under this scheme, an individual taxpayer can claim full waiver on interest and penalty on the full and final settlement of the disputed tax amount.
3. Logistics company DP World recently said that it has won a major contract to develop, operate and maintain a mega-container terminal at Deendayal Port in Gujarat under the public-private partnership mode.
4. The deposit limit for the Post Office Monthly Scheme (POMIS) has been revised for a single account to Rs.4.5 lakh to Rs. 9 lakh and 15 lakh from Rs. 9 lakh for joint account holders.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
1. ‘Pathaan’ director Siddharth Anand, speaking about the boycott calls against the film, said, “To see such negativity around this film, it just is heartbreaking and unnerving.” He added that they made a commercial film, which, in a way, is patriotic.
2. Legendary singer Vani Jairam passed away in Chennai on Saturday, February 4, at 78. She was cremated on Sunday, February 5, with full state honours. She was found dead at her residence in Nungambakkam’s Haddows Road in Chennai.
DEFENCE
1. Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha, AOC-in-C, Western Command, stated that the Indian Air Force is ready to meet any eventuality with China and Pakistan.
2. The NISAR satellite, a joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is expected to launch in 2024 Chennai
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