Top GKToday’s News Headlines-13 February 2020

February 13, 2020

Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for February 13, 2020

Centre launches School Health and Wellness Ambassador Initiative under Ayushman Bharat; 2 teachers in every govt. school will be identified as ‘health and wellness ambassadors’
BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise held at the Ramachandi Beach, Puri (Odisha)
Vietnam’s national media group VOV (Voice of Vietnam) opens its first Indian bureau in Delhi
Maharashtra govt. employees to have 5-day work week from Feb 29; current daily work hours by 45 minutes
Singing national anthem made compulsory in Maharashtra colleges from Feb 19
Maharashtra govt. to make teaching Marathi mandatory in all schools in the state up to Class 10 irrespective of the board
Fashion designer Wendell Rodricks dies in Goa at 59; won Padma Shri in 2014

Factory output, as measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), contracts by 0.3% in December
Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based retail inflation rises to 68-month high of 7.59% in January 2020
Govt. to widen scope of ‘Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Bill, 2020’ to also cover cases pending in DRTs (debt recovery tribunals)
Cabinet approves Rs 2,500-crore capital infusion into three public sector general insurance companies — Oriental Insurance Company Limited (OICL), National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) and United India Insurance Company Limited (UIICL)
Atul Kumar Gupta elected President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for 2020-21
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) bans e-cigarettes on all airports and aircraft in India
Golden Jubilee celebrations of the National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM) in Pune held
National Productivity Council, under Ministry of Commerce and Industry, observes Productivity Day: February 12, Productivity Week: February 12-18

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) lowers global growth forecast for 2020 to 2.2%
Pakistan: Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 11 years in jail in terror financing cases
Parliament of North Macedonia approves country’s accession to NATO