TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. The Rajya Sabha yesterday resumed the discussion on motion of thanks on President Smt. Droupadi Murmu’s address to the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament.
2. Vice President of India Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar has released the book titled ‘9 Incredible Years of Haryana Government – Rise of a New and Vibrant Haryana’ at Surajkund Faridabad. The book highlights the state government’s accomplishments over nine years and has been published in Hindi and English languages.
3. Union Health Dr Minister Mansukh Mandaviya laid the foundation stone of four Nursing Colleges virtually in Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
4. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will inaugurate the two-day ULLAS Mela at New Delhi’s National Bal Bhavan. The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education is organising ULLAS Mela from 6th-7th February, 2024.
5. The Indian government has approved amendments to food safety and standard regulations, requiring only one certification from food regulator FSSAI for food products. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will issue a draft notification and seek stakeholders’ comments before finalizing the amendments.
6. Union Minister Anurag Thakur flagged off the special Aastha special train for Ayodhya Dham from Amb Andaura railway station in Una district of Himachal Pradesh.
7. Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Banwarilal Purohit resigned from his post, citing “personal reasons.”
8. Jharkhand’s new CM Champai Soren wins floor test : Chief Minister Champai Soren-led new government of Jharkhand has won the floor test in the state assembly on Monday. Champai Soren received the support of 47 MLAs, while 29 were in the Opposition.
9. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s to protest in New Delhi on 7th February against Union Govt. He said the protest will be against what he called injustice by the Union Government in tax devolution and grants in aid to the State.
10. Maharashtra cabinet, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, has given the green light to a proposal concerning the Dharavi redevelopment project. As part of this initiative, 283.40 acres of salt pan lands in Mumbai will be acquired from the Union government on a 99-year lease for rehabilitation purposes.
11. Maharashtra cabinet, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, has decided not to increase property taxes in the city of Mumbai.
12. Ellora Ajanta Festival Held From Feb 2-4, 2024 : The Ellora – Ajanta International Festival 2024 concludes, its three-day musical celebration captivated audiences in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
13. Justice Ritu Bahri has become the new Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.
14. Supreme Court on Monday fixed April 16 for a final hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the Patna high court order upholding the Bihar government’s decision to conduct a caste survey.
15. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday promised a nationwide caste census and removal of the 50 per cent cap on reservation if the I.N D.I.A bloc forms the government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha polls.
16. Vowing transformative decisions in his third term and India’s assured position as the world’s third largest economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday predicted a landslide for the National Democratic Alliance in the upcoming General Election and said the BJP would bag 370 seats and the ruling coalition more than 400 out of 543.
17. Priest Ishwari Prasad Namboodiri, the chief priest (Rawal) of the world-renowned Badrinath Dham in Uttarakhand, was honoured with the Shankar Smriti Award in Kerala.
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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. Election Commission has issued strict directives regarding use of children in any election-related activities.
2. Tamil Nadu State Govt Imposes Rs 6 Crore Fine On Fertilizer Plant For Ammonia Leak, Following an ammonia gas leak from a Coromandel International Limited fertilizer plant in Ennore, Tamilnadu, the Environment, Climate Change and Forest Department has fined the company Rs 5.92 crore.
3. Animal rights group PETA India has now filed petitions in the Gauhati High Court seeking a complete ban on buffalo and bulbul fighting events.
4. The Delhi High Court on Monday upheld summons issued to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as an accused in a criminal defamation case for retweeting an allegedly defamatory video circulated by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee in May 2018. Retweeting a social media post carrying defamatory content will amount to defamation under Section 499 of the IPC, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said while refusing to quash the trial court’s 2019 order summoning Kejriwal. The court also said that some sense of responsibility must be attached while retweeting content on social media about which a person does not have knowledge.
5. The Centre on Monday gave powers to all states and Union Territories to declare the terrorist group Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) a banned organisation under the anti-terror law UAPA. On January 29, the Central government had extended the ban imposed on the SIMI for five more years.
6. The Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Sonam Wangchuk, a key campaigner for constitutional safeguards for Ladakh, on Monday said they would launch a fast unto death from February 19 to press their demands and that details of participation of local residents in the agitation were being worked out.
7. Bill proposing jail, fine for exam malpractices introduced in Lok Sabha. Students appearing in exams, in case caught cheating, will not face ‘criminal provisions’ but will remain covered by existing ‘administrative regulations’.
The Bill provides for imprisonment for a term not less than three years, which will be extendable to five years with fine up to Rs 10 lakh.
8. Sextortion’ racket busted in Haryana’s Bhiwani; An investigation into the alleged Rs 37 lakh “sextortion” from an elderly man in Bhiwani has led the Haryana Police to the busting of a racket wherein the accused would blackmail people by morphing the recording of video calls made through WhatsApp.
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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 ₹ 83.06
💷 GBP ₹ 104.13
€ Euro : ₹ 89.21
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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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BSE SENSEX
71,731.42 −354.21 (0.49%)🔻
NIFTY
21,771.70 −82.10 (0.38%)🔻
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Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai
GOLD : ₹ 63,220/10gm (24 krt)
SILVER : ₹ 75,200/KG
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DIESEL : ₹ 90/Ltr
CNG : ₹ 76/Ltr
LPG : ₹ 903/14.2 Kg
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PETROL : ₹ 106/Ltr
DIESEL : 95/Ltr
Auto Gas : ₹ 60/Ltr
CNG : 76/Kg
LPG : ₹ 903/14.2 Kg
1. RBI recently revealed that a staggering 97.38 per cent of ₹2,000 notes in circulation had been successfully returned.
2. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the year 2024-25 and Supplementary Demands for Grants 2023-24 in Lok Sabha. The total budget estimates for fiscal 2024-25 are one lakh 18 thousand 728 crore rupees, excluding the provision for ways and means advances.
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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. Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh has recently invested in the popular lifestyle brand boAt, becoming not only a stakeholder but also the Brand Ambassador of the brand’s audio products.
2. Prime Minister Modi has congratulated musicians Ustad Zakir Hussain, Rakesh Chaurasia, Shankar Mahadevan, Selvaganesh V and Ganesh Rajagopalan for winning the Grammy award for Best Global Music.
3. Tamil Actor Vijay, who recently floated his political party Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam, was in Puducherry to shoot his upcoming film GOAT. Naming the party ‘Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam,’ Vijay has made it pretty clear that Politics isn’t just a mere hobby for him; it’s his passion
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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. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Kanpur) has established and tested the country’s first hypervelocity expansion tunnel test facility, S2. It will be capable of generating flight speeds between 3-10 km per second, simulating the hypersonic conditions encountered during atmospheric entry of vehicles, asteroid entry, scramjet flights, and ballistic missiles.
2. Snow clearance by Indian Army who work tirelessly to clear the road from Dudi to Chuntiwari in Machhil Sector close to Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
3. Northern Command chief Lieutenant-General Upendra Dwivedi will take over as the new Army vice chief on February 15, while he will be replaced at Udhampur by Lieutenant-General M V Suchindra Kumar.
4. India Coast Guard Ship Varaha, an Offshore Patrol Vessel, arrived at Port Mombasa, Kenya for a three-day visit as part of the overseas deployment of ICG ships to Africa.
5. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out four flight trials of high-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) – ABHYAS. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said that it is designed for autonomous flying with the help of an autopilot indigenously made by the DRDO’s Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE).
6. Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras) has partnered with Munitions India Ltd (MIL), a defence public sector enterprise, to make the country’s first indigenously-designed 155 smart ammunition.
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ODISHA = Bhubaneswar
Before was
Orissa Province
Formation: 01 April 1936;
Districts: 30 (3 divisions)
Governor: Raghubar Das
CM : Naveen Patnaik (BJD)
STATE SYMBOLS
BIRD : Indian roller
Fish: Mahanadi mahseer
Flower: Asoka
Mammal: Sambar
Tree: Sacred Fig
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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
06 Feb (Tuesday)
Vedic Ritu/ Hemant Ritu
Drik Ritu : Shishir Ritu
पक्ष :: Krishnapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2080
Shaka Samvat – 1945
Month : Pausa 26 (Amanta)
Magha 12, (Purnimanta) Nakshatr:Nakshatra
Jyeshta (up to 7:35 am)
Moola Purva Ashadha
Tithi : Tithi Ekadashi (up to 4:07 pm)
Dwadashi
Rahu 03:27 PM – 04:50 PM
Yamaganda 09:54 AM – 11:17 AM
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