Tripura Elections 2023 : Polling Underway For 60-Member Assembly. The counting votes will take place on 2 March. A triangular contest is on the cards as Congress and CPIM, stitched a pre-poll alliance to defeat the ruling BJP while the BJP which is looking to retain its power is contesting in alliance with Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) and the Tipra Motha
1. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar interacted with a group of Indian Information Service (IIS) probationers at Up-Rashtrapati Nivas in New Delhi.
2. PM Modi will inaugurate the mega National Tribal Festival – Aadi Mahotsav tomorrow at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi. One thousand tribal artists from 28 States and Union Territories will take part in the festival. The festival is scheduled between the 16th and the 27th of this month and it will celebrate the tribal spirit including its culture, crafts, cuisine, commerce and traditional art.
3. The First G-20 Digital Economy Working Group (DEWG) meeting in Lucknow concluded yesterday.
4. Cabinet approves construction of Shinku La Tunnel to provide all-weather connectivity in Ladakh. This 4.1 kilometer tunnel will be completed by December 2025.
5. PM Modi has appreciated the active participation of school students in the National Philatelic Exhibition, AMRITPEX 2023.
6. Launch of KAVACH 2023-Cyber Security Hackathon; an Initiative by Ministry of Home Affairs & Ministry of Education at National Media Centre.
7. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to take a mid-term review of STARS project implemented in six states including Odisha; Two-day review programme, to begin at Bhubaneswar to attend by education secretaries of Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, MP & Kerala.
8. Tripura is all set to go to the polls on February 16 to elect all 60 members of the Tripura Legislative Assembly. Votes to be counted on March 3.
9. PM Modi to virtually inaugurate Jal Jan Abhiyan at Shantivan of Brahmakumaris Sansthan in Abu Road in Sirohi district of Rajasthan at 11 AM.
10. BJP National President J P Nadda released the party’s manifesto for Meghalaya Assembly elections in Shillong, The state will go to polls on 27th of this month.
11. The Telangana State Government is planning to enact the Clinical Establishment Act for regulating private hospitals in the state. State Finance Minister Harish Rao made the announcement. The members raised concerns relating to private hospitals over irregularities and imposing hefty charges for treatment.
12. Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment Department of Odisha Government in association with Federation of India Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) to jointly organise three day long Krushi Odisha 2023 at Biju Patnaik Play Ground, Baramunda, Bhubaneswar
13. A Four-day Plantation Expo to begin at Kanakakunnu, Thiruvananthapuram. February 16-19 ‘Plantation Expo’ will be opened at 6 pm on the Sooryakanthi Exhibition Grounds at Kanakakunnu Palace.
14. UP Board Exam 2023: The Uttar Pradesh Education Board will commence the UPMSP UP Board Exam 2023 on February 16. State government to impose NSA on cheaters.
15. President Droupadi Murmu has accepted the resignations of Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Lt. Governor of Ladakh Radha Krishnan Mathur.
Now, Governor of Jharkhand Ramesh Bais will be the new Governor of Maharashtra, while Governor of Arunachal Pradesh Brigadier (Dr.) B.D. Mishra has been appointed as the new Lt. Governor of Ladakh. Eleven other states’ Governor and Lt. Governor also has been reshuffled
CRIME /ACCIDENT REPORT
1. In Jammu and Kashmir, amid forest fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in district Poonch several landmines exploded on Wednesday, but there was no report of any damage.
2. The last rites of 25-year-old Nikki Yadav, who was allegedly murdered by her 24-year-old live-in partner Sahil Gahlot in Delhi, were performed at her native village in Haryana’s Jhajjar. Nikki’s body was dumped in the freezer of Sahil’s dhaba located on the outskirts of Mitraon village in Najafgarh. Sahil married another woman hours after dumping Nikki’s body.
3. KFC cannot claim exclusive rights over the use of the word “chicken”, the Delhi High Court has said. The observation came on an appeal by KFC against the refusal by the Senior Examiner of Trademarks to register “Chicken Zinger” as its trademark. ‘Chicken Zinger’ consists of two words and their use together “doesn’t draw an instant connection”.
4. Three people, including two women and an 11-year-old girl, were killed and 15 others injured after an SUV ploughed into a wedding gathering in Odisha’s Ganjam district.
5. National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced a cash reward of ₹15 lakh for information leading to the arrest of Canada-based terror accused Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias ‘Landa’. The identity of the informer will be kept secret, an official spokesperson said.
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1. Centre allocates 4800 crore rupees to Vibrant Villages Programme for Financial Years 2022-23 to 2025-26.
Government approves strengthening cooperative movement through two lakh multipurpose Primary Agricultural Credit Societies in each uncovered Panchayat.
2. The Central Board of Direct Taxes, CBDT has notified Income-tax Return Forms or (ITR Forms) for the assessment year 2023-24. These ITR forms will come into effect from the 1st of April this year.
3. The Budget session of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly will be held from February 20 to March 10.
4. India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) plans to approach the RBI to get itself converted to a universal bank,
5. Vodafone Idea appointed Murthy GVAS as the interim Chief Financial Officer and Key Managerial Personnel of the company.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Five–day Kochi National Dance Festival to begin at Kochi. The first edition of the annual event will be held from February 16 to 20.
DEFENCE
1. Union Cabinet committee on security approved the formation of seven additional battalions of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
2. HAL has indigenously designed and developed a basic trainer aircraft HTT-40 to meet the primary training requirements of the Indian defence services
3. COAS General Manoj Pande interacted with Brigadier General Fadi Abou Haidar, Chief of 12th Brigade, Lebanese Army, Lebanon & discussed aspects of Defence Cooperation between both the Armies.
4. Indian Army team deployed in UNDOF
delivers relief material to Aleppo, Syria. This included rations & medicines from Government of #India as well as contributions from the international community.
5. Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh felicitated Col Sandeep Singh, of Indian Army for his stellar contribution in accelerating iDEX Projects and in facilitating the fast track procurement of iDEX products, during Manthan Ceremony at AeroIndia.
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