Top GKToday’s News Headlines-15 February 2020

February 15, 2020

Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for February 15, 2020

SC directs Centre, Assam govt to file status report on Bangladeshi migrants in detention centres
PM Modi and Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa holds talks in New Delhi
India and Portugal sign MoU to set up National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal in Gujarat
Cha-Chai, an installation of art work of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, inaugurated at National Museum in New Delhi
Sonam Sherpa, the lead guitarist of rock band Parikrama, dies at 48 in Kalimpong, West Bengal
Difficult Dialogues, an annual forum examining issues of contemporary relevance in South Asia, being organised in Panaji, Goa on February 14-15
UP Govt. to replace Yash Bharti Awards with State Cultural Award
Memorial for 40 CRPF personnel killed in a terror attack in Pulwama on February 14, 2019 inaugurated at the Lethpora camp of the force in J&K

Wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation rises to 10-month high of 3.1% in January 2020
Foreign exchange reserves rise to a lifetime high of $473 billion in the week to February 7
PAN not linked with Aadhaar to become inoperative after March 31: I-T dept
Kolkata-based Titagarh Wagons Ltd commissions coastal research vessel ‘Sagar Anveshika’ for Chennai-based National Institute of Ocean Technology
First inter-city electric bus service running between Mumbai and Pune inaugurated by Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar attending the Munich Security Conference from February 14 to 16
Global spending on defence rose by 4% in 2019: International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said in its annual “Military Balance” report

Udayan Mane wins TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship in Bengaluru
Pune-based Udayan Mane won the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship in Bengaluru on February 14, 2020.
Gokulam Kerala crowned champions of Hero Indian Women’s League football tournament in Bengaluru
Eva de Goede of Netherlands named 2019 FIH Women’s Player of the Year by International Hockey Federation (FIH)