Current Affairs, February 2015
28th February:
• Union Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley presents the present the 2015/16 federal budget in
Lok Sabha.
27th February:
• AB de Villiers scores
the fastest 150 runs in ODI History with 64 deliveries.
26th February:
• Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu presents the first railway budget of NDA government in
Lok Sabha.
25th February:
• Ram Naresh Yadav quits
as Madhya Pradesh Governor after a FIR registered against him.
24th February:
• BJP and Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) decided to form a coalition government in
Jammu and Kashmir. PDP's Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to Take Oath as
J&K Chief Minister on Sunday.
• Rajendra K Pachauri has quit
as chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC).
• Chris Gayle scores the first double century
in World Cup history. His partnership with MN Samuels of 372
becomes the highest partnership in ODI history.
23rd February:
• The budget session of
Lok Sabha starts from today.
• AAP MLA Ram Niwas Goyal was
elected as the Speaker and Bandana Kumari as the Deputy Speaker
on Delhi Assembly session.
• The oscar awards for 2015 given
today at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Julianne
Moore has won the Academy Award for best actress for "Still
Alice". Eddie Redmayne won the best actor award for Theory of
Everything. The movie Birdman wins the four awards including
Best Movie.
21st February:
• Nitish Kumar of the
Janata Dal United took oath as Chief Minister of Bihar for
fourth times along with 22 ministers.
• Maldives Polices
arrested former president Mohamed Nasheed under an anti-terror
law for the alleged illegal detention of a judge.
20th February:
• Jitan Ram Manjhi
resigned from the post of Chief Minister of Bihar.
• After
Indian Independence, for the first time Arunachal Pradesh is
connected to the rest of the nation through railway network.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurate the Naharlagun Delhi
Rajdhani Express from Itanagar.
• Brendon McCullum scores the
fastest fifty in World Cup history with 18 balls. His
achievement comes in a match against England.
19th February:
• Five people including
two officials of the Petroleum Ministry were arrested for
allegedly leaking confidential government documents to energy
consultants and corporate.
• India has successfully
test-fired nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi II missile
with a range of 350 km from Balasore.
• Mumbai's Maratha
Mandir theater today run the last show of the blockbuster film
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge after continuously running it for
1000 weeks.
17th February:
• The Janata Dal (United)
suspended seven ministers supporting Bihar Chief Minister Jitan
Ram Manjhi.
• India born Punit Renjen appointed as the next
chief executive of US-based accounting giant Deloitte's global
operations.
• Three Indians included into the list of 100
applicants who will move on to the next round of private mission
that aims to send people on a one-way trip to Mars in 2024.
16th February:
• Former Deputy Chief
Minister of Maharashtra RR Patil died at the age of 57 in
Mumbai. He was suffering from cancer.
• India signed a
nuclear energy agreement with Sri Lanka.
• The auction for
the Indian Premier League (IPL)-8 held in Bangalore.
15th February:
• Sri Lankan President
Maithripala Sirisena reaches India on two day official visit.
• The death toll reaches 153 with 11 more died in swine flu in
Rajasthan.
• India beat Pakistan by 76 runs in their first
match of Cricket World Cup 2015 in Adelaide to keep the unbeaten
record against Pakistan in World Cup.
• "Taxi" by Iranian
director Jafar Panahi won the Golden Bear prize for best film at
the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.
14th February:
• Arvind Kejriwal of Aam
Adami Party takes oath as Delhi Chief Minister.
• The Cricket
World Cup 2015 starts from today with the inauguration match
between Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
• England pacer Steven
Finn took the first hat-trick of the 2015 World Cup to become
the seventh bowler to do so in the history of the event.
13th February:
• Today is observed as
World Radio Day.
• Nine passengers died and over 100 were
injured after the Bangalore-Ernakulam Intercity Express derailed
near the border between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
12th February:
• Pramod Asthana appointed
as head of Special Investigation Team to reinvestigate 1984
anti-Sikh riots.
10th February:
• Aam Adami Party gets
absolute majority with 67 seats in Delhi Assembly Election. BJP
gets 3 seats and none for Congress Party.
• Arvind Kejriwal
will take oath as Delhi CM on 14th February.
8th February:
• The 57th Annual Grammy
Awards were held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,
California.
7th February:
• A record 67.08 per cent
turnout was registered in the Delhi assembly polls.
• 20
ministers of Bihar State Government have resigned from their
post in order to show their support for Nitish Kumar.
•
Eminent Marathi litterateur Bhalachandra Nemade has been chosen
for the 50th Jnanpith Award for 2014.
• Indian Bowler Ishant
Sharma ruled out of the World Cup as he failed the fitness test.
• Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has been cleared to bowl
after passing biomechanic tests on his remodelled action, the
International Cricket Council (ICC).
5th February:
• 1979-batch IAS officer LC
Goyal of Kerala cadre appointed as the Union Home Secretary.
4th February:
• Home Secretary Anil
Goswami has been sacked from the post.
1st February:
• Leander Paes and Martina
Hingis wins the Australian open Mixed Doubles Title after
defeating Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic 6-4, 6-3.
•
Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray by 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-0
to win his fifth Australian Open title.
• Australia wins the
final of the one-day international tri-series after defeating
England by 112 run.
• TV actor Gautam Gulati wins the Big
Boss 8.
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