Current Affairs of February 2014

National & International Current Affairs February,2014

• National Science Day was observed across India on 28 February 2014
• Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar
• The largest Solar Power Plant of India was launched at Bhagwanpur in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh on 26 February 2014
• Ibrahim Mahlab was sworn in as new Prime Minister of Egypt
• Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways R. Ramalinga Reddy inaugurated electric passenger bus in Bangalore on 27 February 2014
• Maritime Energy Heli Services Pvt Ltd (Mehair) and Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) launched a seaplane service on 24 February 2014
• Union Government inaugurated the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) on 24 February 2014
• NTPC signed MoU with BSPGCL and LBCPL to develop a 1320 MW Thermal Power Project in Bihar
• Indian Origin 12 year old boy Shubham Banerjee developed a low cost Braille Printer
• Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) launched E-Wallet Scheme to make payment process fast
• Social media giant Facebook acquired WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars
• 18th Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• West Bengal government and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a campaign about safe drinking water and safe sanitation practices on 20 February 2014
• Union Cabinet Approves Odia as Classical Language on 20 February 2014
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a National Mission for Green India on 20 February 2014
• Connaught Place (CP) in Delhi ranked as the world’s eighth most expensive office location
• Airtel first to cross the 200 million mobile-user mark in India
• China plans to build World‘s longest underwater tunnel
• India to host 2015 World Bridge Championship
• World Radio Day was celebrated across the globe on 13 February 2014
• National Women’s Day of India was observed on 13 February 2014
• Bombay Stock Exchange launched an institutional trading platform [ITP] for small and medium enterprises [SME] on 12 February 2014.
• Assam became the first state to ban smokeless tobacco legally
• Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari launched the India-China Year of Friendly Exchanges on 11 February 2014
• The South Central Railway (SCR) launched Hyderabad Live Train Enquiry System (HYLITES) on 10 February 2014
• Sikkim became the first State in India to achieve 100 percent sanitation coverage
• President of Israel Shimon Peres set a new Guinness World Record with 6500- student online civics class
• World’s oldest tigress, Machli Found in the Ranthambhore National Park
• India and Germany sign two umbrella agreements for financial and technical cooperation
• India’s Visa-on-arrival facility extended for tourists of 180 Countries, except eight
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the implementation of the National Mission on Agricultural Extension and Technology
• World‘s First Paperless public Library of the BiblioTech was opened in the USA on 4 February 2014
• First online Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas launched
• Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the National Cloud on 4 February 2014
• Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein, President of Zanzibar, is on an official visit to India from 1 to 9 February 2014
• Union Cabinet approved the second phase of Bangalore Metro Rail Project
• World’s oldest flamingo died at Adelaide Zoo of Australia

Personalities Current Affairs February,2014

• Legendary Spanish Guitarist Paco de Lucia passed away at the age of 66
• Harold Ramis, the American actor, Writer and Director of classic comedy films passed away at the age of 69
• Dinesh Sarraf appointed next Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
• Eminent Telugu litterateur Hanumath Shastry, the passes away at the age of 90
• Vice President Hamid Ansari released a commemorative postage stamp in the honour of Maulana Hasrat Mohani
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel awarded with Israeli Presidential Medal of Distinction
• Somdev Devvarman won his third ATP Challenge Tennis title
• Eminent painter Prokash Karmakar passed away at the age of 81
• Prime Minister Inaugurated ‘Indira Paryavaran Bhawan’
• Rishang Keishing Oldest M.P retires after serving seven decades
• Matteo Renzi was sworn-in as Prime Minister of Italy
• Cheteshwar Pujara appointed as the brand ambassador of the Gujarat State Election Commission
• Oleksandr Turchynov appointed as the interim President of Ukraine
• United Bank of India CMD Archana Bhargava resigns
• Hindi writer & Jnanpith Award winner Amar Kant passes away at 89
• Minority Affairs minister K Rehman Khan inaugurated first Minority Cyber Village in Rajasthan on 19 February 2014
• Kiran Kumar Reddy resigns as Andra Pradesh Chief Minister
• Kingfisher Airlines Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sanjay Aggarwal resigned
• Abdul Basit appointed high commissioner of Pakistan to India
• Carnatic music Vocalist Rudra Krishna Srikantan passed away at 94
• Edward Snowden was elected as the new Rector of the University of Glasgow
• Tom Finney, the former Preston and England footballer passes away at the age of 91
• Sachin Tendulkar and Virendra Sehwag were nominated for Cricketer of the Generation award.
• Justice Mukul Mudgal, former Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court, was appointed as the chief of the Broadcast Content Complaints Council (BCCC)
• Italy Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigned
• Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre and Guocheng Zhang received International Gandhi Award for the year 2013
• Foreign Minister of Kyrgyz Republic, Erlan Abdyldaev visited India
• South Africa launched a commemorative silver stamp of Nelson Mandela
• Balu Mahendra, the award winning film director and cinematographer passes away at 74
• Hollywood child star Shirley Temple passed away at the age of 85
• Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest and the most generous donor of America in 2013
• Indian-Origin Ashok Varadhan appointed as the co-head of securities division of Goldman Sachs’ on 11 February 2014
• R.K.Tiwari appointed new chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
• Jatinder Bir Singh was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB)
• Vinod Sawhny appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Reliance Communications
• Sonia Gandhi named as Chairperson of Congress Campaign Committee
• Sushil Koirala veteran Nepali Congress (NC) leader elected as the next Prime Minister of Nepal
• Abhinav Bindra, become the 1st person to win third gold-medal in the Inter-Shoot Tri-series Shooting
• Yulia Lipnitskaya became the youngest Russian athlete to win gold medal in Winter Olympics
• N Ramachandran elected as new President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
• Olympian long distance runner Ranjit Bhatia passes away at 77
• Legendary bhajan singer Juthika Roy died at the age of 93
• Kumar Sangakkara, the became the second person in the history of Cricket to score a triple century and a century in the same test match
• Narayanswamy Srinivasan, the President of BCCI elected as the new Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) from July 2014 for a period of 2 years
• Arunima Sinha Honored with Amazing Indian Award 2014
• Malala Yousafzai, John Wood and Indira Ranamagar nominated for the World Children’s Prize
• Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas confirmed the appointment of B.N.Talukdar as head of Director General of Hydrocarbon (DGH)
• John Thompson was appointed as the Chairman of Microsoft
• Marco Lambertini appointed as director-general (DG) of the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) International on 6 February 2014
• Vishwanath Tripathi, the eminent Hindi writer selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman 2013
• Indian-origin professor Sanjeev Kulkarni named dean of Princeton University school
• Satya Nadella appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of [CEO] of Microsoft
• Sachin Tendulkar and Prof CNR Rao conferred with Bharat Ratna
• UN appointed India based Vivek Lall as special advisor on cyber security
• Former Supreme Court Justice, Ashok Kumar Mathur appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Central Pay Commission
• Manoj Vaish took charge as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd.
• Poonam Khetrapal Singh took charge as the Regional Director of SEARO on 1 February 2014
• Harish Rawat was appointed as the 8th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
• Michael Rogers nominated as Director of the National Security Agency [NSA]
• Oscar-winning American actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman died at the age of 46
• Silverine Swer, the First Padma Shri Awardee of Meghalaya passed away

Sports Current Affairs February,2014

• Sourav Kothari won the National Billiard Championships title on 26 February 2014
• Delhi Waveriders won the 2nd edition of Hockey India League cup 2014
• Li Na of China ranked World Number 2 in Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) singles ranking
• Peng Shuai of China ranked World Number 1 in Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Doubles ranking
• New Zealand won 2-cricket Test Series against India 1-0
• Karnataka won Irani Trophy for the fifth time.
• Indian boxers Finished Fourth at the 58th Bocskai International Tournament
• Abhinav Bindra won second gold medal at the Inter Shoot Tri Series shooting at The Hague, Netherlands
• Joshna Chinappa won the Winnipeg Winter Club Open title
• Karnataka defeated Maharashtra to win the Ranji Trophy 2014
• Virat Kohli slips to fourth in ICC Twenty20 rankings

Honours And Awards Current Affairs February,2014

• Madan Babu, Indian scientist won the Protein Society’s Protein Science Young Investigator Award for 2014
• Sikkim won the National Tourism Award 2012-13
• Marathi film, Killa won the Crystal Bear award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
• Bangladesh’s Kamar Ahmad Simon’s documentary ‘Are You Listening‘ won the Golden Conch Award of MIFF 2014

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