Current Affairs - February 7, 2020 Current Affairs

7 schemes worth Rs 594 crores under Swadesh Darshan and PRASHAD schemes approved for J and K and Ladakh Ministry of Tourism. Ministry of Tourism advances India as an all-encompassing goal and as a feature of its on-going exercises, every year discharges residential and universal print, electronic and online media crusades under the 'Incredible India' brand-line, to advance different the travel industry goals and items in the various States/UTs of the nation, including the UTs of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

India ranked 40th on a global International Intellectual Property (IP) Index. It was released by the Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) of the US Chambers of Commerce. GIPC conducted the survey for 53 countries.India scored 38.46% (19.23 out of 50) in 2020. In 2019, it scored 36.04% (16.22 out of 45).

The governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Shaktikanta Das awarded as 'National Banker of the Year 2020 - Asia-Pacific' by The Banker magazine.

International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is observed on 6 February. The day is observed to end the practice of FGM. It creates awareness about FGM which is a violation of the human rights of girls and women. On this day, a campaign titled 'A Piece of Me' is organized by the UNFPA to celebrate three survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM) to raise awareness to end FGM.

The Uttar Pradesh state cabinet approved the proposal for allotment of 5-acre land to UP Sunni Central Waqf Board for the construction of a mosque in compliance with the Supreme Court order. The move comes after the announcement of the introduction of trust to manage the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Snow and Avalanche Studies Establishment (SASE) report on mid-winter assessment stated that the snowfall received from November 2019 to January 2020 has been the highest in the past 30 years. Snowfall in the western Himalayas during the first half of the ongoing winter season has been about 20% above the long period average.

Like Parrikar and Sitharaman, Singh guaranteed on 4th February that the present form of DefExpo had broken every single record. Tending to the media in Lucknow, alongside his co-have, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the resistance serves expressed that more than 1,000 safeguard firms - including 856 Indian and 172 remote organizations - would take part in Defexpo.

State-claimed Indian Oil Corp, India's top purifier, has marked an arrangement with Russian oil major Rosneft that gives it an alternative to purchasing as much as 2 million tons, or 40,000 barrels for each day (BPD) of unrefined in 2020, the Indian oil serve said on 5th February 2020.

The district of South Salmara Mankachar of Assam won National Award for implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana under the category of State/Union Territory having a population of more than one crore. The award was conferred by the Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani in a prize distribution meeting held at New Delhi.

As indicated by the news reports, the researchers have just found warm water underneath the Thwaites Glacier, which earned the epithet Doomsday Glacier for being Antarctica's quickest softening ice sheets. Estimating 74000 sq mi, this ice sheet evaluated to be the size of Florida in the United States of America. This disclosure has raised an alert about the icy mass breakdown, which can prompt almost 3 ft to ascend in the ocean level.

The Qatari delegates will visit the DefExpo, held in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow between February 5-9. Singh held a two-sided meeting with South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeongdoo. During the gathering, the two priests had conversations on upgrading the respective security participation and coordinated effort in the defense industry and innovative work.

President Ram Nath Kovind opened the yearly Udyanotsav of Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Mughal Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan will remain open for the overall population from 6th February 2020.

Rakhi Halder of Bengal claimed gold in the 64kg category of the 35th edition of the Senior Women's National Weightlifting Championships at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra in Kolkata. She lifted 93 kg in snatch and 117 kg in clean and jerk on 5 January 2020. She lifted 10kg ahead of Harjinder Kaur of Chandigarh, her rival.

Chief Minister of Meghalaya Conrad K Sangma inaugurated the Meghalaya Police Academy at Umran in the Ri-Bhoi district. The first phase of the academy was built with a total fund of Rs.50 crore which was provided by the 13th Finance Commission from 2013. The second phase of the academy is to begin with an additional fund of Rs.92 crore from the 15th Finance Commission.

The Union Cabinet led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave its in-principle approval to set up a Major Port at Vadhavan near Dahanu in Maharashtra. The total estimated cost of the project is Rs.65,544.54 crore.

The President of India Ram Nath Kovind presented the International Gandhi Awards for Leprosy to Dr. N.S. Dharmashaktu under the Individual category and The Leprosy Mission Trust under the institutional category on 6 February 2020.

The Group of Seven driving industrialized majority Democratic countries, G-7, have consented to work with the WHO, EU, and China looking for a brought together strategy to handle the quick spreading Novel Coronavirus.German Health Minister Jens Spahn stated they concurred that segregated methodologies were more reluctant to prevail against the worldwide dangers presented by the infection.

A one-day National Conference on Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Pathways for Inclusion and Action for Resilience was held on 5 February in New Delhi. The conference was a run-up to the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) in May 2020.

Ministry of Commerce and Industry is conducting the 22nd edition of India International Seafood Show (IISS) 2020 in Kochi from 7-9 February 2020.The theme for the 2020 seafood show is "Blue Revolution- Beyond Production to Value Addition".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 11th edition of DefExpo in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on 5 February 2020. The 2020 Def Expo is organized over a 200-acre area. Also, it is expected that 65 MoUs will be signed with the Indian and foreign defence companies at the Lucknow expo.