Current Affairs

 

                                        Current Affairs

FEBUARY -  15

• Union road transport and highways minister, Nitin Gadkari has launched India’s first-ever diesel tractor, converted to a much cleaner (compressed natural gas) CNG variant.

• The former European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi has been sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Italy on 12 February 2021. 

• The United States has extended the “New START” nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia for a period of five years. 

• The three-day famous “Mandu Festival” began at the historic town of Mandu in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh on February 13, 2021.

• Maharashtra government has signed an MoU with Flipkart to promote wooden toys, local artefacts, handicrafts.

• India’s homegrown app MapMyIndia ties up with ISRO to build an alternative to Google Maps.

• The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched the Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship (MGNF) programme in partnership with nine Indian Institutes’ of Management (IIM) across India.

• Private general insurer ICICI Lombard has launched the ‘Corporate India Risk Index’. This is intended to be a unified, standardised corporate risk index that spans industries and companies.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has handed over the indigenous main battle tank Arjun Mk-1A to the Army in a function at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai.

• Former media baron Peter Mukerjea has come out with his memoir ‘Starstruck: Confessions of a TV executive’.

• In Puducherry, a campaign has been launched titled “Zero Covid by Feb28” to ensure that there are no COVID-19 cases by the end of February 2021, in the union territory.