Top GKToday’s News Headlines-12 February 2020

February 12, 2020

Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for February 12, 2020

Delhi Assembly election results (70/70): Aam Aadmi Party: 61 (–5), vote share: 53.57%; BJP: 8 (+3), vote share: 38.1%
7-nation BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise – 2020 being organised in Bhubaneswar from February 11 to 13
Former Jharkhand CM Babulal Marandi announces merger of his Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) with the BJP
Veteran journalist Nandu R Kulkarni dies at 70; was Mumbai bureau chief of “The Statesman”
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to visit India on February 24-25
Unani Day, the birth anniversary of Hakim Ajmal Khan (11 February 1868-29 December 1927) celebrated on February 11

National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM) at Faridabad to be renamed as Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management
All medical devices sold in the country would be treated as drugs from April 1 and would be regulated under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act of 1940

Novel coronavirus named ‘Covid-19’ by WHO; “co” for “corona”, “vi” for “virus” and “d” for “disease”
Election results for 160-seat Dail, lower house of Ireland’s parliament: Fianna Fail: 38, Sinn Fein: 37, Fine Gael: 35
Donald Trump administration approves sale of Integrated Air Defense Weapon System (IADWS) to India
International Day of Women and Girls in Science observed on February 11

NZ complete 3-0 whitewash of India by winning 3rd ODI by 5 wickets at Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui
India’s Vivek Sagar (men’s) and Lalremsiami (women’s) named as Rising Stars of the Year by FIH (International Hockey Federation).