06 Feb 2019 ......................... - CM Mamata Banerjee withdraws her dharna after the judgment from Supreme Court - Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2100: Report - IIT Madras team generates lasers from alcohol-cooked carrots - Home Ministry asks WB govt to take disciplinary action against Rajeev Kumar - Domino's operator fined ₹41.4 cr for not passing GST benefit - Home Ministry trying to destroy process: SC on Assam citizen's list - Explosives recovered from train coach, Assam railway station - Bangladesh board to build a stadium after PM Sheikh Hasina’s name - ⭐️ Telangana Govt Approved For The Creation Of Mulugu As A New District - ICT Academy Bridge 2019 Conference Inaugurated In Chennai , TN - India-Monaco Business Forum Held In New Delhi - Indian Squash Player Ramit Tandon Win Seattle Open Title - Uniphore Software Systems Secured Prestigious Aegis Graham Bell Award 2019 - Odisha Launched Kalia Scholarship Scheme To Boost Education For Farmers Children - 12th Regional Standards Conclave Was Held In Bhubaneswar - ⭐️ Kerala Became The 1st State Set Up A Price Monitoring & Research Unit - ⭐️ P V Bharathi Assumed Charge As CEO Of Corporation Bank - Asian Development Bank (ADB) Bought 14% Stake In Annapurna Finance - Ministry Of Coal Signs An MoU With Ministry Of Energy , Republic Of Poland - Veteran Marathi Actor Ramesh Bhatkar Passed Away - ⭐️ Donald Trump Nominated David Bernhardt As US Secretary Of Interior - ⭐️ Philippines Has Topped The Global Internet Usage Index - UP Govt Has Invoked The Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) - Assam Tops In Budgetary Practices Followed By States : Transparency International - ‘ Sopan 2019 ’ Festival For Young Artists Held In New Delhi - Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Meet On Disaster Risk Management In New Delhi - Team India Claims The No. 2 Spot In The ICC ODI Rankings - Words Count Festival 2019 Was Held In Pune , Maharashtra - Indian Cancer Society (ICS) Launched " Swasth Naari - Shakti Hamaari " Campaign .
07 Feb 2019 ...................... - ⭐️ Madhya Pradesh Govt Makes It Mandatory For Industries To Hire 70% Locals - 67th Annual Armed Forces Medical Conference Held In Pune - 1st State Level Awareness Programme On Agri Export Policy Held In Pune - National War Memorial To Be Inaugurated On Feb 25 At India Gate By PM Modi . - Sabarimala board changes stand now supports entry of women of all ages - SC reserves judgment on challenge to Rao's appointment - Woman who entered Sabarimala returns home but family moves out - Over 20 lakh Uttar Pradesh government employees go on strike - New Google Chrome extension will tell users if password hacked: Reports - Oscars to have no host for 1st time in 30 yrs, confirm officials - 30th Road Safety Week 2019 : 04 February - 10 February, Theme For Road Safety Week 2019 : " Sadak Suraksha - Jeevan Raksha " - ⭐️ Pradeep Singh Kharola Appointed as Civil Aviation Secretary - Ministry Of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Launched ' Shehri Samridhi Utsav ' - World Heritage Centre To Be Set Up At Mayapur In West Bengal - Government Forecasted 7.5% GDP Growth In FY20 - ⭐️ P S Krishnan Received K Veeramani Award For Social Justice - Kala Ghoda Festival 2019 Begins In Mumbai - Union Government Notifies Rules To Allow Women To Work In Mines - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) App Launched - ⭐️ ISRO Launches GSAT 31 Launched Successfully From French Guiana - ⭐️ RBI Puts Penalty On Syndicate , Axis Bank For Rules Violation - ⭐️ Rajeev Chopra Appointed As The Director General Of National Cadet Corps - Kerala State Govt Will Launch A ' Pravasi Dividend Pension Scheme ' - ‘ Boori Boot Yullom ’ Festival Begins In Arunachal Pradesh
08 Feb 2019 ..................... - The Repo Rate Will Reduced From 6.5% To 6.25% With Immediate Effect - Vidarbha Grab 2nd Successive Ranji Trophy Title 2018-19 - ⭐️ PM Modi Flag Off Vande Bharat Express From New Delhi On Feb 15 - Mirabai Chanu Won Gold Medal At EGAT Cup In Thailand - Dinkar Gupta Appointed As DGP Of Punjab - 2018 Fourth Warmest Year On Record : NASA . - UP budget allocates ₹447 crore for cow shelters - Banks need ₹25 lakh cr to meet growing credit demand: Report - Jet Airways alters penalty framework for ticket cancellation - Amazon food arm gets government nod to sell on India site: Reports - Tata Motors reports third-quarter loss of ₹26,993 crore - Home, car loans to be cheaper as RBI cuts repo rate by 0.25% - 92-year-old Indian priest Father François Laborde gets France's highest civilian honour - CBI forms 10-member team to probe Saradha chit fund scam - Nobel Prize winner Arias accused of assault by 4 women in 48 hrs - Smriti Irani Launches India Size Project In Mumbai - ⭐️ Pradeep Singh Kharola Appointed Civil Aviation Secretary - ⭐️ SBI UK Chief Shri Sanjiv Chadha Honoured With The ‘ Freedom Of The City Of London ’ - 2019 Asia LPG Summit Held In New Delhi - Rahul Jain Named As The New General Manager Of Integral Coach Factory { ICF } - Macedonia Signed An Accord To Join NATO To Become The 30th Member - Rajasthan Govt Launches ' Rajiv Gandhi Career Portal ' - Father Franois Laborde 92 Year-Old Priest , Was Conferred The " Legion d'Honneur " { The Highest Civilian Award Of France } - Cabinet Approves Establishment Of Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog - NFDC Declared Winner For Promotion Of SC/ST Entrepreneurs - ⭐️ Nilambar Acharya Appointed Nepal’s Envoy To India - India - New Zealand 2nd Foreign Office Consultations Held In New Delhi - ⭐️ Azim Premji Will Be Felicitated With The Ernst & Young (EY) Lifetime Achievement Award - Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen Launches ‘ Darwaza Band – Part 2 ’ Campaign - Indian Coast Guard Signs MoU With AAI For Maritime Search & Rescue - India - Germany Join Hands On Water & Waste Management - RBI Announces Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy
09 Feb 2019 ....................... - Dinkar Gupta Takes Over Charge Of DGP Punjab - Gujjar leader Bainsla starts dharna on rail tracks in Rajasthan for quota - Kolkata police raids firms related to former interim CBI chief - Facebook to add disclaimers on political ads before LS polls - Bombay HC allows 1,585 mangrove trees to be cut for new sea link from Bandra to Versova - Bangladesh seeks India help with return of Rohingyas to Myanmar - India, Pak agree to hold meeting on Kartarpur corridor in March - Indo Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta to receive Canadian Lifetime Achievement Award - Ricky Ponting named Australia’s assistant coach for 2019 World Cup - PV Sindhu signs 4-year deal worth ₹50 crore with Chinese sports brand - 5th India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Committee Meet Held In Delhi - Zero Fatality Corridor Is Launched By Delhi Govt To Reduce Road Accidents - 7th Edition Of Kolhapur International Film Festival Inaugurated In Kolhapur - Siamese Fighting Fish Become The National Aquatic Animal Of Thailand - India Ranked 36th On 7th International IP Index Of Top 50 Economies In The World - 6th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Released By RBI - ⭐️ India Becomes World’s 2nd Largest Consumer & Importer Of LPG - Chennai Police Commissioner A.K. Viswanathan Launches Mobile App " Digicop " - ⭐️ India Slipped To 103rd In Latest FIFA Ranking - UP CM Yogi Adityanath Presented Rs.4.79 Lakh Crore Budget For 2019-20 - PM Modi Launched " DD Arunaprabha " In Arunachal Pradesh - Parmanu Tech 2019-Nuclear Energy Conference In New Delhi - Delhi Govt Launched Bike Ambulance Service - 1st Meeting Of The US-India CEO Forum Will Be Held In New Delhi - 9th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2019 Begins In Haryana - India’s Oldest Elephant ‘ Granny Dakshayani ’ Dies At 88 In Kerala - Indo-Africa Strategic Economic Co-Operation In New Delhi - ⭐️ RBI Slaps Fine Of Rs 1 Crore On SBI For Violating Norms .
10 Feb 2019 ........................ - ⭐️ RBI Slaps Rs 3.5-cr Fine Pn Corp Bank , Allahabad Bank For Flouting Norms - 69th Berlin International Film Festival Was Started In Berlin , Germany - Rohit Sharma Has Become The Highest Run-Getter In T20I Cricket - GHMC Initiates Pink Toilet For Women In Hyderabad - Punjab To Give 6% Direct Allowance (DA) To 6.25 Lakh Employees , Pensioners - Supreme Court asks all states, UTs to file info on manual scavengers employed directly or indirectly - Will present all evidence against Kulbhushan Jadhav to ICJ: Pakistan minister - Gujjar quota agitation throws rail traffic out of gear in Rajasthan - 37-yr-old TMC MLA Satyajit shot dead while walking off stage in West Bengal - Sonam Kapoor's 'Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga' to be part of Oscars library - UK bars export of 17th century Indian tray - Pakistan revises FY18 GDP growth from 5.79% to 5.22% - Smriti Irani Launched India Size Project In Mumbai - 2nd ASEAN – India Youth Summit Concluded In Guwahati - CM Bhupesh Baghel Presents Chhattisgarh’s Annual Budget For 2019-20 - ⭐️ Mirabai Chanu Clinched Gold At EGAT Cup In Thailand - J&K Government Grants Divisional Status To Ladakh Region - 3-day Krishi Kumbh To Begins At Motihari In Bihar - India & Bangladesh Signed MOU For Training 1800 Bangladesh Civil Servants - ⭐️ Meghalaya Govt To Rename Dikkibandi Stadium After P A Sangma - ⭐️ Deepa Mehta To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Canadian Academy - India Pavilion Inaugurated At 69th Berlin International Film Festival .
11 Feb 2019 ................... - ⭐️ Meghalaya govt to rename Dikkibandi stadium after P A Sangma - PM Inaugurates Development Works at Tripura - Surging Silk – Accomplishment and Way Forward - 2 held, one officer suspended over TMC MLA Satyajit's murder - Created 3.79L jobs in 3 yrs, says govt amid unemployment row - Government refuses to share the details of decision-making process on EWS quota: Report - Foreign investors invest ₹5,300 cr in India in just 6 trading days - Gujjars' dharna for quota enters third day; three trains cancelled - Ex-VHP leader Pravin Togadia launches a new political party - Death toll in UP-Uttarakhand hooch tragedies reaches 97 - Swine flu claims 5 more lives in Rajasthan, death toll reaches 105 - ⭐️ Abu Dhabi includes Hindi as the third official court language - India lose a T20I series for the first time after 30 months - ⭐️ Chandrababu Naidu to sit on hunger strike in Delhi on Monday demanding special status for Andhra - Massive rally in Kargil for rotational divisional headquarters decision by governor - ⭐️ IndiGo seeks RBI nod to use rupee onboard overseas flights - Deposits in Jan Dhan accounts set to cross ₹90,000 cr: Government - Passengers will not be able to opt out of meals on Train 18: Report - India gets its first four Chinook heavy-lift helicopters - Eleven including seven security personnel injured in grenade attack at Srinagar, JeM claims responsibility - Over 1,800 mementoes of PM auctioned, Ashok Stambh replica gets ₹13Lakh - NZ Women beat India Women by 2 runs, complete 3-0 T20I whitewash - Australia refuse to play in Pakistan, PCB announces ODIs in UAE
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12 FEB 2019 - ⭐ Egypt’s President El-Sissi Elected As New Chairman Of African Union - MS Dhoni Has Become The 1st Indian Cricketer To Play 300 T20 Matches - ⭐ Shane Warne Named As brand Ambassador Of Rajasthan Royals - Chief Of Indian Air Force Birender Singh Dhanoa On A 4 Day Official Visit To Bangladesh . - Supreme Court adjourns plea against clean chit to PM Modi in 2002 riots - Lok Sabha passes Interim Budget as Congress, Left walk out - Kuldeep Yadav jumps to career-best second position in T20I rankings - ⭐ Bhupen Hazarika's family turns down Bharat Ratna to protest Citizenship Bill - Twitter CEO told to appear before Parliamentary Panel, given 15 days - Acting US Defence Secretary makes unannounced visit to Afghanistan - 10 February : World Pulses Day - 10 February : National Deworming Day - PM Modi Inaugurates Sela Tunnel Project In Arunachal Pradesh - PM Modi Declares 100% Household Electrification In Arunachal Pradesh - J&K Govt Grants Divisional Status To Ladakh region - Hindi Is Included As The 3rd Official Language In The Abu Dhabi Court System - Mukesh Ambani Tops Hurun India Philanthropy List 2018 - ⭐ Hirkani Maharashtrachi Scheme Was Launched In Maharashtra - A Himalayan Cloud Observatory Is Set Up In Tehri District - 13th International Oil &, Gas Conference - PETROTECH-2019 In Greater Noida , UP - Harsimrat Kaur Inaugurates Himachal's 1st Mega Food Park In Una - France's Corentin Moutet Wins Chennai Open ATP Challenger - Pankaj Advani Wins 86th Senior Snooker National Championship - Centre Allocates Rs 59 Cr For Asiatic Lion Conservation In Gujarat - Indian Navy Participated In A Multi-National Training Exercise ‘ CUTCLASS EXPRESS 2019 ’ - Multinational Maritime Exercise ‘ Aman 19 ’ Commenced In Karachi , Pakistan - ⭐ RBI Raises Vollateral-Free Farm Loan Limit To Rs 1.6 Lakh
13 Feb 2019 ....................... - Sapta Shakti Command Of Indian Army Conducting ' Exercise Rahat ' In Jaipur - Challachitram National Film Festival Will Be Held At Guwahati - Railway Won 9th Senior Men's National Hockey Title - ⭐️ Kerala Topped In The State Investment Potential Index 2018 - CM Yogi Flags Off 33 ' Sarthi Sandesh Vahini ' Vehicles In Gorakhpur , UP . - ⭐️ Kerala launches app to clear investment proposals in 30 days - Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill 2019 - Andhra govt spends ₹11 cr for Naidu's one-day Delhi protest - 90 positive swine flu cases reported in a day in Rajasthan - Maharashtra Cabinet approves veterinary van service for cows - TikTok causing cultural degeneration: Tamil Nadu to demand app ban - ⭐️ TRAI extends deadline to switch DTH plans to March 31, 2019 - India signs contract for 72,400 Sig Sauer assault rifles - Tiger spotted in Gujarat after decades: Government - Apple files patent for mobile biometric tech to unlock cars - 12 February : International Darwin Day - 12 February : National Productivity Day, National Productivity Day Theme 2019 : " Circular Economy For Productivity & Sustainability " - ⭐️ Ruchira Kamboj Appointed To Be India’s Ambassador To Bhutan - DRDO Successfully Flight Tests Indigenously Developed Missile System SFDR - Senior National Badminton Championships Begins In Guwahati - ⭐️ Manimekhalai A Has Been Appointed As The Executive Director Of Canara Bank - Bowler Cummins Wins Australia's " Allan Border Medal " - 7th Annual World Government Summit Is Being Held In Dubai - 1st LAWASIA Human Rights Conference Was Concluded In New Delhi - Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam Has Won Israel's Prestigious Dan David Prize 2019 - Panama’s Copa Airlines SA Has Been Crowned The Most Punctual Airline Of 2018 - Surging Silk Mega Event Held In New Delhi - PM Modi Launched Channel ‘ DD Arunprabha ’ For Arunachal Pradesh - ⭐️ Brit Jamie Chadwick Becomes The 1st Female Driver To Win MRF Challenge Title
14 Feb 2019 .......................... - CREDAI YouthCon- 19 Annual Youth Conclave Held In New Delhi - 5th International Dam Safety Conference To Be Held In Bhubaneswar - Clouded Leopard Will Be Mascot For National Games 2022 In Meghalaya - 2 Day EarlyEd Asia 2019 Conference Began In Jaipur . - Government to divest 100% stake in Air India's ground handling arm - R Venkataramanan quits as Managing Trustee of Tata Trusts - Request all CMs to put ban on liquor in all states: Bihar CM - CBSE to announce Class 10, 12 board results early this year - US warns India against buying oil from Venezuela - IndiGo to cancel nearly 30 flights daily for the rest of February - 1967 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Eigen passes away aged 91 - 13 February : World Radio Day, Theme Of 2019 World Radio Day Is : ' Dialogue , Tolerance & Peace ' - 13 February : National Women’s Day - US & Thailand Hosted Multinational " Cobra Gold Military Exercise 2019 " - Jharkhand Govt Banned The Popular Front Of India (PFI) In The State - Conference On Unani Medicine For Public Health Inaugurated At New Delhi - I&B Ministry Organised 1st Annual Conference Of Its Media Units In New Delhi - New Zealand Wins The T20I Series Beating India 2-1 - Rajasthan Govt Launches ‘ Rajiv Gandhi Career Portal ’ - India - Norway Launch ‘ India-Norway Marine Pollution Initiative ’ To Combat Marine Pollution - ⭐️ Indian Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam Wins Israel’s Dan David Prize 2019 - 7th Session Of World Government Summit Held In Dubai - ⭐️ Boeing Appointed Salil Gupte As India Head - ⭐️ Siddhartha Lal Wins The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year For 2018
15 Feb 2019 ......................... - Bihar Khadi & Village Industries Board signs MoU With Amazon - 3rd Indo-German Environment Forum Held In New Delhi - SAI Defeated Chandigarh To Win Women’s National Hockey Title - Bihar Govt Announced Mukhyamantri Vridhajan Pension Yojna - Retail Inflation Declines To 2.05% In January 2019 - Women With 4 Children To Get Life Tax Exemption In Hungary - The Union Cabinet Approved The Patna Metro Rail Project . - ⭐ Suicide bomber with 350kg explosives in car hit CRPF bus; 40 martyred - Nirbhaya's parents move court to fast-track hanging convicts - ⭐ 1st wireless charging heart pump implanted in a patient at Kazakhstan - ICJ to resume Kulbhushan Jadhav's hearing from Feb 18: Report - Former Goa Deputy CM Francis D'Souza passes away at 64 - 3 Rafale aircraft fly to India for Bengaluru air show - 307 Indian startups join Estonia e-residency scheme in 4 yrs - NASA announces 2023 mission to explore universe's origins - Scientists claim to make the 1st robot that moves without GPS - Oscar-winning sound artiste Pookutty to debut as director - Centre To Set Up A National Law University In Uttarakhand - ⭐️ Rajasthan Assembly Approved 5% Quota In Govt Jobs & Education For Gujjars - ⭐️ Macedonia Officially Changed Its Name To North Macedonia - ⭐️ India’s 1st Aqua Mega Food Park Commissioned In Andhra Pradesh - AYUSH Ministry Launched e-AUSHADHI Portal For online Licensing Of Ayurveda , Siddha , Unani Related Matters - Indian Army Carried Out The Annual Exercise Named ‘ Exercise Topchi ' At Nashik - ⭐️ P Chidambaram’s Book “ Undaunted : Saving The Idea Of India ” Launched - ⭐️ Ashwani Lohani Appointed As Air India Chairman & MD - Kerala 1st State To Come Up With Trans Fatty Acid Action Plan - MOU Between India & Saudi Arabia In Field Of Infrastructure Investment & Tourism
What is Most Favoured Nation status?
Article 1 of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1994, requires every WTO member country to accord MFN status (or preferential trade terms with respect to tariffs and trade barriers) to all other member countries.
Accordingly, India accorded MFN status to all WTO member countries, including Pakistan, from the date of entry into force of the so called Marrakesh Agreement, establishing the WTO. The WTO is the only global international organisation dealing with the rules of trade between nations and the 164 member countries of the WTO represent 98 per cent of world trade. Only a handful of very small countries are out of the WTO.
In accordance with the MFN principle and its obligations under the WTO, India accorded Pakistan MFN status in 1996. However, Pakistan is yet to transition fully to MFN status for India and it maintains a Negative List of 1,209 products that are not allowed to be imported from India. In addition, Pakistan permits only 138 products to be imported from India through Wagah/Attari border land route.
Despite these restrictions, India continues to maintain a substantial trade surplus with Pakistan.
Controversy over reciprocal status for India
On November 2, 2011, the Pakistani cabinet decided formally to accord India MFN status. But that decision remains unimplemented. In March 2012, Pakistan substituted a “Positive List” of a more than 1,950 tariff lines permitted for import from India, by a “Negative List” of 1,209 lines that could not be imported. This meant that the default setting had moved from ‘no import’ to ‘import’, and instead of listing only items that could be bought from India, Pakistan had listed items that could not be bought, with everything else allowed. But this was still not the same as according India MFN status.
This intransigence has periodically triggered anger in India, and demands have been raised, especially during times of heightened tensions and terrorist attacks sponsored by Pakistan, to withdraw the MFN status that New Delhi has granted to Islamabad. India had not, however, taken that step so far.
Despite the bilateral ups and downs, the MFN status accorded by India was not touched. As late as December 19, 2018, in response to a query in Rajya Sabha on the withdrawal of MFN status to Pakistan, the junior Commerce and Industry Minister had told Rajya Sabha in a written reply: “No decision has been taken to review the MFN status accorded to Pakistan, so far..”
India-Pakistan trade In Numbers
India’s trade numbers with Pakistan are minuscule. Trade between the neighbours jumped nearly three-and-a-half times between 2000-01 and 2005-06 (from $251 million to $869 million per annum), but progress was slower in the decade that followed, with volumes rising a little over three times. India’s trade with much smaller Bhutan is over half that with Pakistan (In 2016, total India-Bhutan bilateral trade was Rs 8,723 crore; with Pakistan, it was around Rs 17,200 crore.)
Back in 2007, the Indian Council
of Research on International Economic Relations (Icrier) had projected a bilateral trade potential of $11.7 billion (Rs 46,098 crore), if both neighbours took proactive measures to exploit untapped areas of economic cooperation. But in FY17,
India-Pakistan trade was a mere $2.29 billion, or about 0.35% of India’s overall trade.
Positive and Negative Impact of Decision
The decision by India to withdraw MFN status to Pakistan is intended to isolate Pakistan diplomatically and squeeze the country’s industry. Even though the low volumes of trade limit the impact that such a step can have, the stoppage of input materials such as chemicals and cotton from India will push up costs of production for the relevant Pakistani industries. It would also give a push to the illegal trade between the two countries, which takes place through border gaps and via third countries. It could also give a handle to extremist elements in Pakistan to scale up the rhetoric against India.
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16 Feb 2019 ........................ - ⭐️ William Barr Sworn In As United States Attorney General - India's Fastest Vande Bharat Express Flagged Off By PM Modi - India's Annual Wholesale Inflation Drops To 2.76% In January - Ghumot Is To Be Notified As A Heritage Instrument Of Goa - Bradley Cooper Wins PETA’s ‘ Oscat ’ Award For A Star Is Born - ⭐️ Pramod Chandra Mody Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of CBDT - Prime Minister Narendra Modi Will Visit Korea On February 21-22 - Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan Launched Software Application ' K-SWIFT ' - NASA Declared Its Longest-Running Mars Rover ' Opportunity ' Dead - ⭐️ Sushil Chandra Has Been Appointed As The New Election Commissioner - Tamil Nadu Govt Is Promoting M-Sand For Construction Works - ⭐️ India Withdraws Most Favoured Nation Status Granted To Pakistan - The Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan Scheme Implemented From 15 Feb - The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill , 2018 Was Passed In Lok Sabha - ⭐️ Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal Becomes The 1st Woman Flight Engineer .
17 Feb 2019 ..................... - IAF Inducted Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal As Its 1st Woman Flight Engineer - ⭐️ Govt Appointed B P Sharma As The Chairman Of Pawan Hans Limited - Challachitram National Film Festival Will Be Held At Guwahati From 1 March - ⭐️ Sportstar Aces Lifetime Achievement Award For Prakash Padukone - Global Unemployment Rate Falls To 5% : Report - Indian Air Force Conducted Exercise " Vayu Shakti 2019 " At Pokhran , Rajasthan . - Ahead of LS polls, PM Modi to review work done by MPs: Report - Navjot Singh Sidhu dropped from Kapil Sharma Show after Pulwama comments: Report - Customs duty on all goods imported from Pakistan hiked to 200% - Vidarbha to donate Irani Cup prize money to families of CRPF martyrs - Rain, hailstorm kill 26 in 2 days in UP; ₹4L ex-gratia announced - ⭐ Sunil Chhetri given first ever Football Ratna Award - Virtual reality can help treat autistic kids of fears: Study - NASA may ask Russia to carry crew to ISS over SpaceX delay - ⭐️ India's 1st District Cooling System To Be Built In Amaravati - IWAI Launched Portal " LADIS " For Real Time Information - Amazon Launched Amazon Pay UPI For Android Users In India - ⭐️ Ashwani Lohani Appointed Air India Chairman & CMD - 5th India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Committee Meeting In New Delhi - World Sustainable Development Summit 2019 Held At New Delhi - 58th Meeting Of Central Geological Programming Board (CGPB) In New Delhi - ⭐️ Union Minister Arun Jaitley Resumed Charge As Finance Minister - India’s 1st Agromet Forecast Centre Inaugurated In Dharwad , Karnataka
18 Feb 2019 ..................... 🕎 India’s first district cooling system to be built in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh 🕎 NGT imposed Rs. 100 crore fine on Tamil Nadu government ❇️ Chairman :- Adarsh Kumar Goel 🕎 TelanganaNow Has 33 Districts with Creation of Narayanpet and Mulugu. 🕎 Infosys launched learning app ‘InfyTQ’ for engineering students 🕎 J P Morgan Became First US Bank With Cryptocurrency 🕎 SBI launches Nayi Disha Programme for work-life balance of its employees ❇️ UN Appoints Chandramouli Ramanathan As Controller And ASG For Programme Planning, Budget and Finance. 🕎 Hina Jaiswal becomes IAF’s First Woman Flight Engineer 🕎 *Abdul Aziz Muhamat*, was given the Marti Ennals Award 2019 🕎 Sunil Chhetri was conferred the first-ever ‘Football Ratna’ award 🕎 Eva de Goede (female) from Netherlands and Arthur van Doren(Male) of Belgium Win 2018 FIH Player Of The Year Awards. ❇️ ‘Simplicity & Wisdom’ Authored By Mr. Dinesh Shahra Launched. 🕎 Ranji champion Vidarbha beat Rest of India to retain Irani Cup 🕎 Elise Mertens beats Simona Halep to win the Qatar Open 🕎 83rd Senior Badminton Nationals in Assam ❇️ Saina wins Women’s singles Title ❇️ Sourabh Verma bags Men’s singles Title 🕎 Chris Gayle announced retirement from One-day Internationals 🕎 Mary Kom appointed brand ambassador of PUMA.
19 Feb 2019 ........................ - World Sustainable Development Summit 2019 Held At New Delhi - President Of Argentina Mauricio Macri Arrived In New Delhi - India’s 1st District Cooling System Will Come Up In Amravati , AP - India’s 1st Agromet Forecast Center Inaugurated In Dharwad , Karnataka - Pramod Chandra Mody Appointed As New CBDT Chairman - NASA To Launch ' SPHEREx ' Mission To Investigate Universe - Vidarbha Clinched The Irani Cup Defeating Rest Of India (RoI) - Expert Committee Recommends Rs 9,750 Monthly National Minimum Wage - Saina Nehwal Won Senior National Badminton Championship In Women's Singles - Sourabh Verma Won Senior National Badminton Championship - ⭐️ Derrick Pereira Was Named Head Coach Of The India U-23 Team - Sushma Swaraj On 4 Day Visit To Bulgaria , Morocco & Spain - 4th Agri Leadership Summit Held In Gannaur , Sonipat - ⭐️ President Ram Nath Kovind Launched Digital Kisan Platform . - India Hiked The Custom Duty Of Pakistan Goods To 200% - India Becomes Largest Buyer Of Venezuelan Crude Oil In February - Football Delhi Conferred Sunil Chhetri With 1st ever " Football Ratna " Award - Himachal Passed Bill To Make Sanskrit 2nd Official Language In The State - Telangana Govt Announced Creation Of 2 New Districts ' Narayanpet & Mulugu ' - Raigarh Municipal Corporation Of Chhattisgarh Won The Swachhata Excellence Award - PM Modi Lays Foundation Of Bihar's 1st Metro Rail In Patna - Vidarbha Team Clinches The Irani Cup Title - Jharkhand-Based NGO Yuwa Wins Laureus Sport For Good Honour - India Win Team Event At Mallakhamb World Championship In Mumbai - Infosys Launched Learning App ‘ InfyTQ ’ For Engineering Students - ⭐️ Abdul Aziz Muhamat ( A Manus Island Refugee ) Wins International Human Rights Prize - Myanmar Won Hero Gold Cup Women's International Football Tournament - ⭐️ Saina Nehwal Wins Women’s 83rd Singles Senior Badminton Title - 12th Edition Of Aero India 2019 Held At Yelahanka In Bengaluru .
20 February 2019 ................... ● 20 February : World Day Of Social Justice ● WDSJ Theme 2019 : " If You Want Peace & Development , Work For Social Justice " ● Govt Launched Operation Digital Board To Provide Better Digital Education ● DPIIT Launches 2nd Edition Of States’ Ranking On Startup Initiatives ● Suresh Prabhu Launched SWAYATT Initiative To Promote Start-Ups ● 7th National Photography Awards At National Media Centre In New Delhi ● SL Shanth Kumar Was Awarded As The Professional Photographer Of The Year ● LIC Launched A New Micro Insurance Plan " Micro Bachat " ● The Union Cabinet Approved The New National Electronics Policy 2019 ● Rajnath Singh Inaugurated Delhi Police's Cyber Crime Unit ' CyPAD ' ● One Health India Conference Inaugurated In New Delhi ● All Indian Cine Workers Association Announces Total Ban On Pakistani Artists ● Kim Kumari Has Won The ‘ Miss India USA 2019 ’ Title ● HDFC Bank Opens 5,000th Branch In Andheri , Mumbai ● Novak Djokovic Won ' Laureus World Sportsman Of The Year ' Award ● Saudi Becomes 73rd Nation To Sign International Solar Alliance ( ISA ) ● Tourism Minister K.J. Alphons Inaugurated ‘ Eco Circuit ’ Project In Kerala ● 14th Agricultural Science Congress Inaugurated In New Delhi ● Drainage Cleaning Robot ' Bandicoot ' Introduced In Chennai , Tamil Nadu ● Sandeep Mohan Bhatnagar & Ashok Kumar Pandey Appointed As CBIC Members ● Eva De Goede ( Netherland ) Was Named The Female Hockey Player Of The Year For 2018 ● Van Doren ( Belgium ) Was Named The Male Hockey Player Of The Year For 2018 ● Indian Oil Corporation Signed USD 1.5 Billion Deal To Buy US Crude Oil ● Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Launched " Nyaya Bandhu " Mobile App .
🔴 Imp Org. In News ═══════════════════ 🔷 PNB metlife Insurance 🔻 HQ = mumbai 🔻Foundation = 2001 🔻Chairman = Ashish Shrivastava ═══════════════════ 🔷 CBI 🔻HQ = New Delhi 🔻Foundation = 1963 🔻Director = Rishi Ku Shukla 🔻Additional Director - Praveen Sinha ═══════════════════ 🔷 UPSC 🔻HQ = New - Delhi 🔻Foundation = 01 Oct 1926 🔻Chairman = Arvind Saxena ═══════════════════ 🔷 Union For Intnl Cancer Control 🔻Foundation yr = 1933 🔻HQ = Geneva, Switzerland 🔻Chairman = Sachia Aranda (aus) ═══════════════════ 🔷 NCC - 🔺 HQ = New Delhi 🔺 Director General = Rajeev Chopra 🔺 Foundation Year =16/04/1948 ═══════════════════ 🔷 SAARC (South Asian Association For Regional Co-operation) 🔻Established in 08 Dec 1985 🔻 HQ - Kathmandu 🔻 Secretary General - Amzad Hussain from Pakistan 🔻Member countries - Afganistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ind, Maldive, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri-lanka ═══════════════════ 🔷 Ind-Ocean Rim Association (IORA) 🔺Establishment - 07 मार्च 1997 🔺HQ - Ebene, Mauritius 🔺Secretary General - Dr. Nomvuyo N. Nokwe 🔺Member Country - 22 ═══════════════════ 🔷 National Green Tribunal 🔻 HQ - Delhi 🔻 Established in 18/10/2010 🔻Chairperson - Adarsh Ku Goel ═══════════════════ 🔷 Indian Bank Association 🔻 Established in 26 sep 1946 🔻HQ - Mumbai 🔻Chairman - Sunil Mehta ═══════════════════ 🔷 International Union For Conservation Of Nature (IUCN) 🔻 HQ - Gland (Switzerland) 🔻 Established - 05 Oct 1948 ═══════════════════ 🔷 INTREGAL COACH FACTORY 🔻 Manufacturers of Rail Coaches 🔻 HQ - Chennai, Tamilnadu 🔻 Established - 1952 ═══════════════════ 🔷 WORLD BANK - 🔻Formation - 1944 🔻HQ - Washington (DC) 🔻Member Country - 189 [189th - Nauru +2016] 🔻Chief - David Malpass ═══════════════════ 🔷 NORTH ATLANTIC treaty Organizations 🔻 Formation - 4 April 1949 🔻HQ - Brussels, belgium 🔻Secretary General - Jens Stoltenberg (13th Norway) ═══════════════════ 🔷 BUREAU OF POICE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 🔻 Formation - 28 August 1970 🔻HQ - New Delhi 🔻Chief - AP Maheshwari ═══════════════════