Current Affairs Capsule
National Protein Day was observed for the first time in India on 27th February, 2020. A national-level public health initiative, Right To Protein, to raise awareness about the health benefits of protein was also launched. The theme of India Protein Day 2020 is #ProteinMeinKyaHai. The Reserve Bank of India has approved the appointment of Sumant Kathpalia as the Managing Director and […]
Assam’s eminent environmental activist Jadav Payeng will be awarded the Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award on 29th February, 2020 in New Delhi for his efforts in creating a man-made forest through reforestation. The award is composed of a trophy, a recitation and a reward of Rs 1 lakh. He is famously known as the Forest Man of […]
The 24th meeting of Eastern Zonal Council chaired by Home Minister Amit Shah will be held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 28th February, 2020. The meeting will see the participation of the States of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. The participating states will discuss various issues including power transmission lines, investigation of heinous offences, inter-State […]
Exercise Indradhanush-V, a joint air force exercise between the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF) of UK, commenced on 24th February, 2020 at Air Force Station Hindan. The focus of this edition of the exercise is ‘Base Defence and Force Protection’. The exercise provides a platform for the IAF and RAF to […]
The 13-year old Indian Grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh won the 34th Cannes Open 2020 chess tournament held at Cannes, France on 22nd February, 2020. He defeated Harutyun Bargeshyan from France in the final round and secured a total of 7.5 points. Gukesh (Elo rating 2542), who last year became the world’s second youngest Grandmaster ever, beat the Frenchman in 50 […]
The Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) conducted the survey from the database of National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau study (2015-16), ICMR-NIN-Hyderabad. As per the study, the cities of Delhi and Ahmedabad topped the list of seven metro cities in daily average consumption of ‘added fat’ with 44.4 gram per person daily and […]
Rear Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh AVSM, NM took over as the Commandant of the Naval War College, Goa on 18th February, 2020. Prior to this appointment, he was the Flag Officer Commanding, Western Fleet. He was the lead drafter of the Indian Navy’s Maritime Doctrine 2009, Strategic Guidance to Transformation 2015 and the Indian Maritime […]
The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has launched a National Level Awareness Programme (NLAP) 2020 from 17th February to 28th February, 2020 to spread awareness about the schemes and activities undertaken by the Ministry and its attached organisations. The awareness programmes are being organised across the country to disseminate information amongst students of […]
The Appointments Committee of Cabinet on 21st February, 2020 appointed retired IAS officers of 1983-batch Amarjeet Sinha and Bhaskar Khulbe as advisers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a period of two years, or until further orders. Sinha, from the Bihar cadre, has served as the Rural Development Secretary while Khulbe, from the West Bengal […]
Sanjay Kothari, the Secretary to the President, has been selected as the new Central Vigilance Commissioner by a high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The committee has also chosen former Information and Broadcasting Secretary Bimal Julka as the new Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission. Bimal Julka is currently serving as […]
