1. Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar to be Chief Guest at Sixty First Convocation of ICAR-IARI, New Delhi.
2. PM Modi will campaign in the two northeastern states on Friday.
3. The Change of Guard Ceremony will not take place this Saturday. In an official release, the President’s Secretariat said that the decision has been taken due to the Guard of Honour for the Chancellor of Germany scheduled at the Forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan.
4. Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla inaugurated the 19th Annual Zone III Conference of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) India Region in Gangtok, Sikkim on Thursday.
5. Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Wednesday bids adieu to Karnataka Assembly with “farewell” speech.
6. Supreme Court to hear a PIL seeking direction to all State governments to frame rules for menstrual pain leaves to female students & working-class women at their respective workplaces & compliance of section 14 of Maternity Benefit Act 1961.
7. Hectic campaigning continues for Assembly polls in Nagaland and Meghalaya.
8. Punjab Police to release self-styled Sikh preacher and Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh Sandhu’s aide after massive protests in Amritsar.
9. Uttarakhand government signed a contract with two private companies to construct a 3.38-km ropeway from Janki Chatti in Kharsali to Yamunotri Dham. The ₹166.82 crore-project will reduce travel time from the existing two to three hours to just 20 minutes
10. BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is likely to visit New Delhi to address a media briefing in order to explain the BRS agenda for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
CRIME REPORT
1. Congress leader Pawan Khera has been released on bail in a case involving his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.
2. Gujarat Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Bill, 2023 was passed in the state Assembly with a full majority. An examinee convicted of an offence under this Act shall be debarred from any public examination for two years. According to the Act, ₹1 crore fine and up to 10 years of imprisonment will be imposed for leaking question papers.
3. Arunachal Police busted a Naga rebel outfit camp near the India-Myanmar border in Changlang and recovered arms and ammunition, in a joint operation carried out with Changlang district police and special investigation team (SIT). The operation was carried out against Eastern Naga National Government (ENNG).
4. The police stopped students from screening the BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal’s Bolpur. The screening was planned for the same day when Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh arrived at the university to attend the annual convocation.
5. Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) in Karnataka’s Udupi has suspended 42 students in a month over consumption and peddling of drugs, police said.
6. A 55-year-old man in Mumbai’s Malabar Hill allegedly lost close to ₹20,000 after he clicked on a KYC message link that asked him to update his PAN card details.
7. Police imposed Section 144 of Code of Criminal Procedure in Maharashtra’s Nagpur, for two months, to stop unlawful assembly of eunuchs at public places.
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1. RBI cancelled Bank License: The registration of Pune-based Kudos Finance and Investments Limited (Kudos Finance and Investments Pvt Ltd) and Mumbai-based Credit Gate Pvt Ltd. has been cancelled. Both NBFCs were involved in regulatory lapses in lending.
2. G20 two-day Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors meet to begin in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman to attend G20 two-day Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting in Bengaluru.
3. PM Modi to address post-budget webinar on Agriculture & Cooperatives.
4. Gujarat Finance Minister Kanu Desai to present state Budget for fiscal 2023-24 in Vidhan Sabha at Gandhinagar
5. Coal Ministry to conduct a mock E-auction for 27 coal mines.
6. The Andhra Pradesh government will hold a two-day Global Investors Summit 2023 on March 3 and 4 at Visakhapatnam with the aim to achieve remarkable growth in the industrial sector.
7. ONGC to invest $2 billion in drilling 103 wells in Arabian Sea.
8. Gautam Adani, who was once Asia’s richest man, now no longer features among the world’s 25 richest persons. According to the world billionaires list by Forbes and Bloomberg, Adani slipped to the 26th and 29th rank, respectively, after his net worth tanked to $42 billion. The fall comes more than a month after Hindenburg Research accused Adani Group of fraud.
9. Three million litres of sewage are dumped into the holy Ganges every day. It is the fifth most polluted river in the world. To reduce the pollution in the river, the Namami Gange Executive Committee recently approved nine projects. These projects are to be implemented at a cost of Rs 1,200 crores.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
1. Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’ bagged the Dadasaheb International Film Festival Awards and SS Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’ received the International Film of the Year. The grand celebration of Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF) 2023 took place in Mumbai
2. President Droupadi Murmu presents Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships & Akademi Awards in New Delhi.
3. Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) 2023 to begin at Bhubaneswar, over 500 speakers across a vast array of nationalities from fields of literature, cinema, media & politics to attend.
4. WhatsApp will reportedly allow users to edit messages up to 15 minutes after sending them, similar to the edit button on Apple’s iMessage app.
5. Selena Gomez has once again become the most followed woman on Instagram, with 381 million followers. The singer has beaten Kylie Jenner, who currently has 380 million followers on the photo and video sharing platform.
DEFENCE
1. Indian Navy-affiliated IFC-IOR (Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean region) has inked an MoU with the Seychelles-based Regional Coordination Operations Centre (RCOC) on 22 February 2023.
2. Indian Army has organised classes for the students of Jammu and Kashmir in an attempt to help them continue with their education amid heavy snowfall in the region.
3. Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane and his Sri Lankan counterpart reviewed bilateral ties during 7th Annual Defence Dialogue in New Delhi on Thursday. During the meeting, the ongoing defence cooperation activities between the two countries were reviewed. Both sides agreeing to increase the complexity of bilateral exercises.
4. INDIAN NAVY to get six german Diesel-Electric submarines under Project-75I at a cost of $5.6 billion.
5. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will equip Astra air-to-air missile system on Indian Air Force’s Sukhoi Su-30MKIs, Light Combat Aircraft TEJAS MK-1A and MiG-29 UPG. Astra is a beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missile system which has been indigenously designed and developed to take down enemy aircraft and drones.
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