United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Boris Johnson is on a Two Day visit to India.
Today he met PM Narendra Modi.
Johnson spoke at the Raisina dialogue and emphasised the need for a free trade agreement between India and UK.
Libyan military commander General Khalifa Haftar visited Russian aircraft carrier 'Admiral Kuznetsov' in the Mediterranean today.
On the tour, Haftar and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu discussed the fight against terrorist groups in the Middle East.
Note : The visit is seen as a show of Russian support to Libya in its fight against terrorism.
India
The 2nd edition of Ministry of External Affairs’ annual Raisina Dialogue was held in New Delhi.
This year's Theme : “The New Normal: Multilateralism in a multipolar world”.
As many as 20,000 youths in Ganga basin states will be trained and deployed as 'Swachhta Doots' in about 2,336 villages to spread a message of keeping the river clean.
The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has approved a ₹10 crore project for training and deployment of the 20,000 youngsters for the purpose, Union Water Resources Ministry said today.
Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said the Union Cabinet has approved to repeal 105 more obsolete and redundant laws.
Note : The BJP-led Centre has repealed in total 1,280 old laws while the previous central governments in 64 years had repealed only 1,301 such outdated laws.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao today announced that the state ministers will contribute ₹25,000 per year for the Army Welfare Fund.
Further, he added that MLAs, MLCs, and MPs will contribute ₹10,000 each per year towards the same.
The Telangana government will bring a bill with a provision of 12% reservation for backward sections among Muslims in the Budget session of its Legislative Assembly.
The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the proposal for India’s taking full membership of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) Governing Council.
This decision involves payment of annual contribution of US $5,00,000 to the IVI (headquartered in Seoul, South Korea).
Madhya Pradesh became the first State of the country to launch Aanandam programme to help the needy persons.
Under it, government through volunteers will provide help to the needy and economically sound citizens can donate items for the needy persons.
Awards & Appointments
Actress Shabana Azmi has been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for the upcoming 11th Asian Film Awards, to be held on March 21 in Hong Kong.
She has been nominated for her role in the film 'Neerja'.
Note : She is the only person from Indian cinema who has received a nomination for an award this year.
Delhi Police chief Alok Kumar Verma has been chosen to take over as the next CBI Director.
Verma was selected by a committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice JS Khehar and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge. However, Kharge had reportedly given a dissent note saying he didn't get enough time to check the shortlisted candidates' credentials.
Italian conservative Antonio Tajani was elected the new President of the European Parliament (EP).
Business & Economy
Five government-owned insurance companies - New India Assurance, United India Insurance, Oriental Insurance, National Insurance and General Insurance, have been cleared by the Cabinet for listing in stock exchanges.
Note : The government holds 100% stake in all five companies.
Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro today authorised new banknotes ranging from 500 to 20,000 bolivars to deal with the soaring inflation in the country.
He also extended the deadline for exchanging 100 bolivar notes, formerly the highest denomination in the country, for the third time until February 20.
Note : Inflation in Venezuela is expected to reach 1,600% this year.
E-commerce platform Flipkart has launched an SOS feature on the mobile app meant for its delivery staff which will alert the nearest field executives in case of an emergency.
The project has been titled 'Nanjunda' after a delivery man who was murdered in Bengaluru last month by a gym trainer who did not have money to pay for his order.
Tata Elxsi, a design firm part of the Tata group, will become the first company to test self-driving cars in India.
The company is said to have sought permission to test re-engineered sedans equipped with ultrasonic sensors and LIDAR radars in Bengaluru.
Tata Elxsi is not building its own autonomous cars, but working on software for other carmakers.
The Indian Air Force has placed orders with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for black boxes.
This comes after a successful trial of the black boxes which were developed by HAL.
Note : Now India will not have to purchase black boxes from other countries as they will be manufactured within the country itself.
Sports
Former Indian captain Kapil Dev was inducted into the Legends Club 'Hall of Fame' at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai today.
Note : Gavaskar was already inducted in the Hall of Fame in 2013.
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