Top GKToday’s News Headlines-29 February 2020
Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for February 29, 2020
INDIA
- Delhi High Court judge Justice S. Muralidhar transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court
- Myanmar President U Win Myint meets PM Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi
- Myanmar, India sign 10 MoUs out of which four are for construction of water supply systems, roads, schools and solar power systems in Rakhine state
- Union Cabinet approves 3 MoUs with Myanmar on ‘combating timber trafficking’, ‘conservation of tigers & other wildlife’ and ‘in the field of petroleum products and communications’
- ‘Vajra’ offshore patrol vessel of the Indian Coast Guard commissioned in Chennai; was built by L&T Shipbuilding
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates new Light Combat Helicopter Production Hangar at HAL Complex in Bengaluru
- NITI Aayog supported Atal Innovation Mission, NASSCOM launch Artificial Intelligence-based learning courses for students at Atal Tinkering Labs
- UP Govt. to rename ‘Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu, Arabi-Farsi University’ in Lucknow as ‘Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Languages University’
- Both houses of Mahrashtra Legislature pass resolutions asking the Centre to accord ‘classical language’ status for Marathi
- Mahrashtra Legislature passes bill making teaching of Marathi language compulsory for Class 1-Class 10 students
- Bihar Legislative Assembly passes resolution to conduct a caste-based census in the state
- Guruvayur Padmanabhan, popular elephant of Guruvayoor Sreekrishna Temple in Kerala, dies at 80
- KPP Samy, DMK MLA from Tiruvottiyur Assembly constituency, dies at 57
- Renowned Vedic Scholar Sudhakar Chaturvedi passes away in Bengaluru
- Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, 3 others appointed by LG Anil Baijal to represent police in cases related to Delhi violence
- US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)expresses concern over the violence in New Delhi
PETRONET MHB
- ONGC and HPCL acquired the 34.56% stake of 8 PSBs in Petronet MHB Ltd for about Rs 371 crore.
- ONGC and HPCL bought 17.28% stake each from the PSBs.
- Both ONGC and HPCL had held 32.72% apiece in Petronet MHB
- Petronet MHB Ltd owns a petroleum product pipeline in Mangalore
- N-LRSI 2020
- The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) releases NCAER Land Records and Services Index (N-LRSI 2020)
- As per N-LRSI 2020, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu were the five best-performing states in terms of digitisation of land records and their quality.
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) achieves milestone of two crore customers, was launched on September 1, 2018
WORLD
- IAF’s C-17 Globemaster returns from coronavirus-hit Wuhan, China with 112 evacuees, including 36 foreign nationals
- 119 Indians from coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess Cruise ship (docked off at Yokohama, Japan) brought back in Air India flight
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2020