Current Affairs, February 2014
28th February:
• Sahara chief Subrata
Roy sent to police custody till March 4 after his alleged
failure to return Rs. 24,000 crore to over three crore small
investors.
• Five policemen were killed in a Maoist
ambush in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh.
• World's first
virtual Bitcoin currency shop opened in Hong Kong.
•
Economic growth slows to 4.7% in December quarter.
• The
Union Cabinet decided to impose President's Rule in Andhra
Pradesh.
27th February:
• An army soldier killed
five colleagues before killing himself in Safa Pora camp,
Srinagar.
• Janata Dal-United today expelled its senior
leader Shivanand Tiwari from the party.
• Indian Navy
confirms the killing of two officers who were missing since the
fire on board submarine INS Sindhuratna.
26th February:
• Navy Chief Admiral DK
Joshi has resigned following submarine accident in which fire
broke out in Indian Navy submarine INS Sindhuratna.
• The
Supreme Court issued a non bailable warrant against Sahara group
chief Subrata Roy for failing to appear before the apex court.
25th February:
• Asia Cup cricket
tournament starts in Bangladesh.
24th February:
• India has dropped
anti-piracy charges against Italian marines who are accused of
killing two Indian fishermen.
• Oleksandr Turchynov was named
as the interim President of Ukraine.
23rd February:
• Next Winter Olympics
will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018.
22nd February:
• South Africa batsman AB
de Villiers became the first player in the history of Test
cricket to score a half-century in 12 consecutive Tests.
21st February:
• Today is the last day of
the parliament before the general elections, 2014.
•
Parliament passed the Whistleblowers' Protection Bill to provide
adequate protection to RTI workers.
• Ukraine opposition
leaders signed an EU-mediated peace deal with President Viktor
Yanukovich to end violent protest and for an early presidential
election.
• Saradha Group chairman Sudipto Sen got three year
imprisonment by a court.
20th February:
• Telangana statehood bill
passed by the Rajya Sabha.
• Supreme Court suspended the
Tamil Nadu government's decision to release seven convicts in
the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
• Supreme Court gives
adoption rights to Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all
other communities under the Juvenile Justice which was
previously restricted to only Hindus, Buddhists and Jains.
•
Facebook decided to buy smartphone messaging service WhatsApp
for $19 billion.
19th February:
• Kiran Kumar Reddy
resigned as Andhra Pradesh chief minister over the move to
bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.
• BJP named Dr. Harsh Vardhan as
the president of its Delhi unit.
• Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
appointed as the new chairperson of Indian Institute of
Management-Bangalore (IIM-B).
18th February:
• Lok Sabha passed the
Telangana bill by voice vote.
• Supreme Court commuted the
death sentences of three assassins (Santhan, Perarivalan and
Murugan) of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to life
imprisonment.
• New Zealand wins the two test match series
1-0 against India.
17th February:
• The finance minister P.
Chidambaram presented the interim budget in parliament.
•
'One-rank, one-pension' scheme for ex-servicemen accepted by the
Union Government.
• Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation
sets Guinness record for conducting largest blood donation camp
at multiple venues.
• British Academy Film Awards presented.
"12 Years a Slave" wins the best film award.
16th February:
• Aam Aadmi Party
publishes its first list of candidates for Lok Sabha poll.
•
IPS officer Rakesh Maria appointed as Mumbai Police
Commissioner.
• Chinese thriller Movie "Bai Ri Yan Huo" wins
the Golden Bear prize in Berlin International Film Festival.
15th February:
• The Union Cabinet
recommended President's Rule and suspended animation of Delhi
Assembly.
14th February:
• Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
resigns over delay in Jan Lokpal bill.
• Italian Prime
Minister Enrico Letta resign from his post.
• 58,000 people
affected by a powerful 7.3 magnitude quake in northwest China's
Xinjiang region.
13th February:
• The Lok Sabha erupted in
when some MP from Andhra Pradesh fired pepper spray, broke glass
table and snapped the wire in parliament in protest against a
bill on a new Telangana state.
• The U.S. Ambassador to
India Nancy Powell met BJP leader Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar,
Gujarat.
• Assam became the first state in India to legally
ban the consumption,manufacture, advertisement, storage, trade
and distribution of all forms of smokeless tobacco.
• Delhi
government approved the Delhi Nagar Swaraj Bill.
12th February:
• Interim rail budget
presented in the Parliament. 72 new trains introduce in the
budget.
• The annual consumer price inflation to a 24-month
low of 8.79 percent in January
• The IPL 7 auction takes
place. Yuvraj Singh drew the biggest bid with Royal Challengers
Bangalore clinching his services for Rs 14 crore.
• Karnataka
wins the Irani Trophy final with an innings and 222 runs.
11th February:
• 103 people kill when a
military plane crashed in eastern Algeria.
• Talks between
Vodafone and Indian Govt fails after the government decided to
withdraw its conciliation proposal to sort out the tax dispute
due to which Vodafone may now have to pay Rs.20,000 crore as tax
dues.
• IOC lifted the ban on the Indian Olympic association.
• BCCI announced the cricket teams for the Asia Cup and T20
World Cup.
10th February:
• Nepal's parliament
elected Sushil Koirala as the next Prime Minister.
• Gurunath
Meiyappan has been indicted for illegal betting in last year's
Indian Premier League in a report submitted by retired judge
Mukul Mudgal.
9th February:
• According to a report of
the drinking water and sanitation ministry, Sikkim become
India's first state with 100 percent sanitation coverage.
•
Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra became the first individual to win
three gold medals in Inter Shoot Tri series being held at Hague,
Netherlands.
• World Squash Federation president N.
Ramachandran elected unopposed as president of Indian Olympic
Association.
8th February:
• Maruti Suzuki India has
stopped production of Maruti 800.
• The International Cricket
Council (ICC) board announced that BCCI president N. Srinivasan
will be the Chairman of the ICC board from July.
7th February:
• The Union Cabinet
approved the Telangana bill.
• Winter Olympics starts in
Sochi, Russia.
• Three Indian athletes Shiva Keshavan,
Himanshu Thakur and Nadeem Iqbal are competing as independent
athletes in Winter Olympics due to IOA's (Indian Olympic
Association) suspension by the International Olympic Committee.
6th February:
• Delhi Government ask
anti-corruption officials file an FIR against former Delhi Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit for an alleged Rs. 31-crore scam crafted
around expensive street-lighting for the Commonwealth Games in
2010.
• Sony Company announces that it will sell its personal
computer (PC) unit and cut 5,000 jobs.
5th February:
• The last session of 15th
Lok Sabha started from today.
4th February:
• World Cancer Day is
celebrated to deepen the understanding of this killer disease.
• Microsoft Corp named 46 year old, Hyderabad born Satya Nadella
as its next chief executive officer.
• Sachin Tendulkar and
CNR Rao conferred with Bharat Ratna by the President of India
Pranab Mukherjee.
• Justice Askhok Kumar Mathur has been
appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission.
3rd February:
• AIADMK and CPI (M)
entered into an alliance in Tamil Nadu for Lok Sabha polls 2014.
• The Delhi cabinet cleared the Jan Lokpal Bill, which will be
pass at a special assembly session at the Indira Gandhi stadium
in New Delhi according to Delhi Govt.
2nd February:
• Founder member of Aam
Admi Party Madhu Bhaduri quits party.
• Karnataka wins their
seventh Ranji Trophy cricket title after beating Maharashtra by
seven wickets in the final in Hyderabad.
1st February:
• Maharashtra Chief
Minister Prithviraj Chavan inaugurated India's first monorail in
Mumbai.
• Harish Rawat sworn in as Uttarakhand's eighth Chief
Minister after resignation of Vijay Bahuguna.