6th February, 2020

INDIA

  • 22nd edition of India International Seafood Show (IISS) 2020 will be held in Kochi.
  • Pramod Agrawal assumed charge as the new chairman and managing director of Coal India Ltd.
  • President Ram Nath Kovind opened the annual ‘Udyanotsav’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
  • The Scientist at Indian Veterinary Research Institute have recently developed a low-cost vaccine for Swine Flu.
  • The Department of Science and Technology under the Ministry of Science and Technology has launched a scheme called “Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institutes (SATHI)”.

STATE

  • Cabinet has approves five Acre land for Sunni Waqf Board at village Dhannipur under Sohaval Tehsil in Ayodhya District, Uttar Pradesh.
  • The biennial “Sammaka-Saralamma Jatara” a mega tribal festival was located in Mulugu district of Telangana.
  • Union Cabinet has given its ‘in-principle’ approval for setting up a Major Port at Vadhavan in Maharashtra.
  • The Veteran Actor Waheeda Rehman to be honoured with National Kishore Kumar Samman by Madhya Pradesh government.
  • India’s largest rural technology fair ‘Antahpragnya’ held in Telangana.
  • Uttarakhand police has started Whatsapp helpline for women.

WORLD

  • Mohammad Tafwiq Allawi was appointed as Iraq’s new Prime Minister by President Barhim Salih. He will replace Adil Abdul-Mahdi who resigned in November 2019 due to anti-government protest.
  • Somalia has become the first country in the Horn of Africa to declare a National emergency following Locust Infestation sweeping.
  • Mo O’Brien becomes the 1st deaf person to row Atlantic Ocean.
  • Somalia has become the first country in the Horn of Africa to declare a National emergency following Locust Infestation sweeping.

SPORTS

  • Saurav Ganguly will be India’s goodwill ambassador for Tokyo Olympics.
  • Deepa Malik has been elected as president of Paralympic Committee of India.

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

  • Insurance cover on bank deposits increases from Rs One Lakh to Five Lakh.
  • Union Cabinet has decided to bring Cooperative Banks under the regulatory mechanism of Reserve Bank of India.