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Febuary 2017 Current Affairs Pdf FEBUARY 2017 CURRENT AFFAIRS PDF RECRUITMENT GURU Visit Us @ www.recruitment.guru CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBUARY 2017 Follow Us @ www.recruitment.guru/currentaffairs/ |1 CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBUARY 2017 Contents IMPORTANT DATES AND EVENTS …………………………………………………………...3 APPOINTMENTS..………………….……………………………………...............................4 AWARDS and HONORS ……………………………………………………….......................5 OTHER IMPORTANT UPDATES ……………………………………………………………..….6 NATIONAL NEWS …….……………………………………………………………………….………8 INTERNATIONAL NEWS .……………………………………………………………………......12 AGREEMENTS ………..……………………………………………………………………….….….14 BUSINESS NEWS……………………..………………………………………………………..…….15 DEFENCE NEWS ……………………..…………………………………..............................17 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS .…………………………………….……………….18 SPORTS NEWS ……………………………….……………………….................................19 OBITUARY NEWS………….………………….………………………………....………………...21 Current Affairs 2017 PDF Collection………………..…………………………….……….22 More Current Affairs………………………………………………………..….…………..…….23 More Important GK Sections………………………………………..………………...……..23 Recommendations……………………………………………………….…………………………23 Follow Us @ www.recruitment.guru/currentaffairs/ |2 CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBUARY 2017 IMPORTANT DATES and EVENTS 1st February is celebrated as the 40th Indian Coast Guard Day. World Wetlands Day is observed on 2nd February. 4th February is known as World Cancer Day. Independence Day of Sri Lanka is celebrated on 4th February. International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is observed on 6th February. 8th February is the Chinese New Year (year of the Monkey). Safer Internet Day is observed globally on 9th February. 69th 'Nowshera Day' was celebrated by the army on 9th February. 10th February is observed as the National Deworming Day in India. World Day of the Sick is observed annually on 11th February. International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated on 11th February. 12th February is Darwin Day. World Radio Day is celebrated on 13th February. 16th February is the President's Day of United States. World Day of Social Justice is observed on 20th February. 21st February is the International Mother Language Day. World Thinking Day and Twins day is celebrated on 22nd February. National Science Day is observed on 28th February. Last Day of February is celebrated as the Rare Disease Day. Follow Us @ www.recruitment.guru/currentaffairs/ |3 CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBUARY 2017 APPOINTMENTS Abhay Manohar Sapre is the new Chairman of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. Achamkulangare Gopinathan is appointed as the Head of UN Joint Inspection Unit. Ajay Tyagi is appointed as the Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The new Director of CBI is Alok Verma. Amulya Kumar Patnaik is chosen as Commissioner of Delhi Police. National Thermal Power Corporation Limited appointed Anand Kumar Gupta as the new director. Bella Hadid is the Ambassador of Bulgaria. The first Woman Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police is Cressida Dick. FIFA announces Diego Maradona as its new ambassador. Edappadi K Palanisamy will be sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The 12th President of Federal Republic of Germany is Frank-Walter Steinmeier. MEA announced Gopal Baglay as its new Spokesperson. Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov is elected as the new President of Turkmenistan. Jean-Pierre Lacroix is the UN Secretary General for Peace Keeping Operations Haiti elected Jovenel Moise as its new president. Uber, India chose Madhu Kannan as the Chief Business Officer. Global Vice President of Xiaomi is Manu Kumar Jain. Matt Idema was appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) of WhatsApp. Mehriban Aliyev was elected as the 1st Vice President of Azerbaijan. Somalia has elected Mohamed Abdullahi as its president. N Chandrasekaran is the first non parsi Chairman of Tata Sons. Indian Institute of Management – Sirmaur appointed Neelu Rohmetra as its new director. Follow Us @ www.recruitment.guru/currentaffairs/ |4 CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBUARY 2017 Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey is the new President of ICAI. The new CEO of Prasar Bharati is Rajiv Singh. Ministry of Finance appointed Sanjeev Sanyal as the Principal Economic Adviser. Sarah Al Suhaimi is the 1st Female Head of Saudi Stock Exchange. 1st woman commercial pilot from Dubai royal family is Sheikha Mozah Al Maktoum. Shurhozelie Liezietsu is elected as the new Chief Minister of Nagaland. Pakistan appoints Tehmina Janjua as its 1st woman Foreign Secretary. The Chief Financial Officer of Tata Consultancy Services is V Ramakrishnan. Vikas Swarup is the new High Commissioner of India to Canada. MD & CEO of National Stock Exchange (NSE) is Vikram Limaye. Yehiya Sinwar was elected as the new Prime Minister of Gaza. AWARDS and HONORS AIIMS, New Delhi won the 1st Prize in Centre's Kayakalp awards 2017. Alastair Cook was awarded the Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE). Anish Kapoor was named the 2017 Genesis Prize (Israel) winner. Annamrita (ISKCON) was given the IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality award. Dr P Raghu Ram was given the Dr. B C Roy national award 2016. Lata Mangeshkar was given the Brand Laureate Legendary Award. Lucideus was given the Best IT Startup of India award. Martina Robledo is the 1st ever Transgender person to serve as a 'trophy handler' at Grammy Awards. On Body and Soul (Hungarian drama film) won the Golden Bear Award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Follow Us @ www.recruitment.guru/currentaffairs/ |5 CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBUARY 2017 Sexy Durga won the Hivor Tiger Award (1st Indian film). Shand Panesar was given the Outstanding Bravery of the Year Award 2017 by Scotland Yard. Shantha Rangaswamy is the 1st Female Cricketer to be nominated for BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award. Stuart Broad was awarded the Order of the British Empire. Sudarshan Pattnaik made the Guinness World Record for the world's tallest sand castle. Surendra Verma was awarded the Vyas Samman Award 2016. OTHER IMPORTANT UPDATES The new Judges who were appointed to the Supreme Court are: 1. Sanjay Kishan Kaul 2. Dipak Gupta 3. Mohan M. Shantanagoudar 4. S. Abdul Nazeer 5. Navin Sinha Recently appointed non-official directors of RBI 1. Ashok Gulati 2. Manish Sabharwal 3. Rajiv Kumar Top 10 International Intellectual Property Index 1. United States 2. United Kingdom 3. Germany 4. Japan 5. Sweden 6. France 7. Switzerland 8. Singapore 9. South Korea 10. Italy India's rank - 43rd Follow Us @ www.recruitment.guru/currentaffairs/ |6 CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBUARY 2017 Top 5 Countries of Economic Freedom Index 2017 1. Hong Kong 2. Singapore 3. New Zealand 4. Switzerland 5. Australia India’s Rank 143 The National Regulatory Authority of India (NRAI), the vaccine regulating authority of India, has been given the highest ratings by global health body World Health Organization for vaccine regulations on February 17, 2017. Leading professional services firm JLL has once again been named to FORTUNE magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies list of 2017 based on their reputation for innovation, top talent and global competitiveness. Top 5 Companies in the List are. 1. Apple 2. Amazon.com 3. Starbucks 4. Berkshire Hathaway 5. Disney Indian School of Business Ranked Top Indian B-School in FT Global MBA Ranking 2017 The 2017 Financial Times Global MBA ranking was released on January 30, 2017. This year 4 Indian Business Schools have been listed in the World’s 100 best Full Time MBA Programme List. They are Indian School of Business, Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta. Top Five B-Schools 1 INSEAD, (France/Singapore) 2 Stanford Graduate School of Business 3 University of Pennsylvania, (Wharton/US) 4 Harvard Business School 5 University Cambridge Judge Business School Follow Us @ www.recruitment.guru/currentaffairs/ |7 CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBUARY 2017 NATIONAL NEWS Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has presented the Union Budget for the year 2017-18 in the Lok Sabha on 1st February 2017. This is his fourth annual budget and the first budget after demonetization. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the launch of Swayam, an online education platform that will give students access to over 350 courses, while presenting the Union Budget today. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has introduced the Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Bill 2017 in Lok Sabha. The Bill aims at replacing the note ban ordinance that extinguishes the liability of the government and the RBI on demonetised high-value notes. To bring transparency in political funding and to curb black money, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that maximum cash funding to parties will be limited to ₹2,000 per donor. Indian Railways has unveiled the Antyodaya Express, a new train for unreserved passengers. The first Antyodaya Express is slated to start between Mumbai and Tatanagar (Jharkhand) and the second train between Ernakulam and Howrah. India has allowed non-state mining companies to mine and sell coal for the first time in more than four decades. India's first ever floating elementary school has opened on Loktak Lake, the freshwater lake in the country, in Manipur. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has inaugurated the 2-day South Asian Speakers' Summit on 'Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)' at Indore. National productivity week was observed from 12th to 18th February 2017. Theme of National Productivity Week 2017 was “From Waste to Profits-through Reduce, Recycle and Reuse”. One of the significant biodiversity mega events of India, the National Biodiversity Congress (NBC)
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