Page | 1 CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBRUARY 2021 Copyright © by Classic IAS Academy All rights are reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Classic IAS Academy. Classic IAS Academy |UG 33-34 Ansal Chamber-1Bhikaji Cama Place | New Delhi 110066 011-45069494 | [email protected] | www.classiciasacademy.com Table of Contents Page | 2 1. Global Energy and Environment 23. Private Banks to Participate in Leadership Award Government Business 2. IAF gifts 1971 war helicopter to 24. Cabinet approves President’s Bangladesh Rule in Puducherry 3. Facebook lifts news blockade in 25. ICOLD Symposium on Australia Sustainable Development 4. Opportunities and Challenges 26. ARHMD System for Indian for Bamboo in India Army 5. Guru Ravidas Jayanti 27. Cabinet approves PLI Scheme 6. G20 Central Bank Governors’ for IT hardware & pharma sectors Meet 28. President inaugurates world’s 7. ISRO’s PSLV-C51/Amazonia-1 largest stadium in Gujarat Mission 29. Australia’s oldest Aboriginal 8. Saras Aajeevika Mela-2021 rock Art Starts 30. New Alpine Plant Species 9. NSO’s GDP Forecast- Highlights Discovered 10. CSE’s State of Environment 31. Two Years of PM KISAN Report- Highlights Scheme 11. Significant social media 32. U.S’ International Anti- intermediary corruption Champions Award 12. Task force on river-linking 33. Draft National Migrant Labour approves Policy 13. Pakistan to remain on Grey 34. Japan Appoints Loneliness List of FATF Minister to Check Suicide Rate 14. RBI’s Report on Currency and 35. National Urban Digital Mission Finance 2020-21 Launched 15. Central Team Report on 36. Flower Processing Centre Odisha Elephant Deaths 37. National Cooperative 16. New Guidelines on Social Development Corporation Media Regulation 38. China becomes India’s top 17. State of School Feeding Trade Partner Worldwide Report- Highlights 39. Bangladesh bans all known 18. IRDAI sets up panel to relook Vulture-Toxic Drugs Guidelines on Cybersecurity 40. Mumbai’s Undersea Tunnel- 19. India begins BRICS Chairship Key Facts to know 20. TRIPS waiver on Covid-19 41. Microbes from Earth could Vaccines survive on Mars 21. News Media and Digital 42. VL-SRSAM missile System Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Successfully Launched Code 43. India & Mauritius signs 22. PM to inaugurate Second Limited Trade Pact Agreement Edition of Maritime India Summit 44. NASA releases first audio from Mars Classic IAS Academy |UG 33-34 Ansal Chamber-1Bhikaji Cama Place | New Delhi 110066 011-45069494 | [email protected] | www.classiciasacademy.com 45. Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver 72. SWAMIH Fund-Recent Disease with NPCDCS development 46. Narmadapuram 73. India to appeal against Cairn 47. Rare Birds sighted in Energy arbitration award Mangalore University 74. Hyderabad- 2020 Tree City of Page | 3 48. First-ever National Toy Fair to the World start from Feb 27 75. Third India Tourism Mart 49. ICGS C-453 Interceptor boat organised by FAITH commissioned 76. PM to chair NITI Aayog 50. February 20 World Day of Governing Council Meeting Social Justice 77. NASA’s Perseverance Rover 51. Mass Migration of Blue Landed on Mars Earthworms in Meghalaya 78. Why Facebook restricted new 52. Uttarakhand-Co-ownership contents in Australia? Rights to Women 79. Oldest DNA recovered from 53. Khajuraho Dance Festival the Teeth of Siberian mammoths 2021- Key Facts 80. QUAD Grouping 54. NCBC Chairman on sub- 81. ISA to Launch World Solar categorisation of OBCs Bank 55. Saudi Arabia opens up Armed 82. IIF Report World’s debt to Forces for Women increase in 2021 56. UP to export ‘Kala Namak Rice’ 83. India-Mauritius Agreement to Singapore 84. Mahabahu-Brahmaputra 57. State Bank of Sikkim under initiative RBI's regulatory purview 85. TIGER X-1 Hyundai’s New 58. Passport services with Digi Concept Vehicle Locker 86. Amendments to the Juvenile 59. PASSEX Exercise Justice Act, 2015 approved 60. Hydrogen Research 87. PLI scheme for Telecom Sector 61. 11th India-EU Macroeconomic 88. Draft Blue Economy Policy dialogue 89. MoHUA Launches ‘Pey Jal 62. Kerala to build ‘smart’ Survekshan’ Anganwadis 90. Iran-Russia Maritime Security 63. Atal Paryavaran Bhavan Belt 2021 64. India-Ethiopia 91. Sandes- India’s new instant 65. US officially re-joined the Paris messaging platform Climate Deal 92. Anti-Radicalism Bill 66. Intensified Mission 93. PiMo- eBike launched by IIT Indradhanush 3.0 Madras-Incubated start-up 67. Agri Ministry to use Drones to 94. ECOPact New Low-Carbon support PMFBY range of Concrete 68. Road Transport Ministry’s ‘Go 95. Third Edition of Indian Sign Electric Campaign’ Language dictionary 69. G-7 & Munich Summit 96. Privatisation of PSBs Govt to 70. India-Australia Circular bring Two Amendments Economy Hackathon (I-ACE) 97. Credit Default Swap 71. Arrow-4 System 98. United Nations Capital Development Fund Classic IAS Academy |UG 33-34 Ansal Chamber-1Bhikaji Cama Place | New Delhi 110066 011-45069494 | [email protected] | www.classiciasacademy.com 99. Sanctuary Lifetime Service 126. NDB to invest $100 Million Award 2020 into NIIF Fund of Funds 100. Defence Minister launches e- 127. Tianwen-1 probe enters the Chhawani Portal Mars Orbit 101. Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit 128. US announces Sanctions on Page | 4 Transport Project Myanmar’s Military Leaders 102. First Woman to lead WTO 129. Exercise TROPEX-21 103. Foundation Stone for 130. Deep-Sea Fishing Vessels Maharaja Suheldev Memorial Design and Specifications 104. Intelligence Unit to tackle 131. ‘Specialty Steel’ included Frauds under the PLI Scheme 105. Kochi Water Metro project 132. Uttarakhand Glacier Burst First Route Inaugurated 133. BioAsia 2021 107. India Liberalised the 134. Farmer Produce Regulation on Geospatial Data Organizations (FPOs) 108. Cargo Ship to International 135. United States to re-join Space Station UNHRC 109. Mahatma Gandhi National 136. HOPE UAE’s Mars Mission Fellowship Programme 137. Sahtoot Dam 110. AI ‘Ramanujan Machine’ 138. Index-Linked Insurance 111. Commercial Jute Seed Policies Distribution Scheme 139. Denmark to construct 112. India Gifted Rice to Syria World’s First Energy Island 113. Inter-caste marriage 140. Glacial Lake Outburst Flood 114. All Digital Insurance Policies 141. Anganwadi beneficiaries to be issued via Digilocker app dropped by 2 crores in 7 years 115. Vigyan Jyoti Programme 142. Sub Mission on Agricultural 116. Digital Agriculture-NeGPA Mechanization Scheme 117. Indian Astronomers detect 143. World Sustainable huge Optical Flare in Astronomic Development Summit 2021 Object 144. FSSAI Caps Trans Fats in 118. Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 Foods hits Tajikistan 145. Judicial Activism 119. US-Mexico Border Wall 146. Samagra Shiksha to be Project renamed 120. India Lost Crops on 18 Million 147. International Day of Zero Hectares during 2017-2019 Tolerance for Female Genital 121. Concentration of Small Black Mutilation Holes discovered 148. NCAER’s Business Confidence 122. Vijayanagara- 31st district of Index Karnataka 149. Chamoli tragedy Glacial 123. About Vijayanagara District Breach Triggered Floods 124. Mandarin Duck spotted after 150. Ladakh to get India’s first 118 years in Assam Geothermal Power Project 125. TIFAC launches SAKSHAM 151. Srivilliputhur–Megamalai–5th portal and Seaweed Cultivation Tiger Reserve in TN Mission 152. First women team of CoBRA commando unit Classic IAS Academy |UG 33-34 Ansal Chamber-1Bhikaji Cama Place | New Delhi 110066 011-45069494 | [email protected] | www.classiciasacademy.com 153. China to set up Public 169. Nari Shakti Puraskar-2020 Platform to track Polluters 170. NITI Aayog’s plan for Little 154. World’s Largest Radio Andaman Telescope- Square Kilometre Array 171. New Protein based 155. Pradhan Mantri Matru Biosensors created for Quick Page | 5 Vandana Yojana COVID-19 test 156. First Thunderstorm Research 172. MITRA Scheme to be Testbed of India Launched 157. 26 more Green Zone sites for 173. Social Security for India’s Gig Drones approved Economy Workers 158. Zomato partnership under 174. The Little Book of the PM SVANidhi Encouragement book by Dalai 159. Stardust 1.0- First rocket Lama that runs on Biofuel 175. SpaceX announced First All- 160. EIU Democracy Index 2020 Civilian Mission to Space 161. Lithium deposits found in 176. Pattachitra Art Karnataka 177. Neptune Declaration 162. RBI makes Risk-Based 178. State of emergency Internal Audit Mandatory announced in Myanmar 164. GOBARDHAN Scheme 179. Agricultural Infrastructure 165. Yudh-Abhyas Indo-US joint and Development Cess military exercise 180. 15th Finance Commission’s 166. MCA amends the Definition of final report Small Companies 181. 8th India International Silk 167. India’s first Centre for Fair Wetland Conservation and 182. Bhashan Char Island Management 183. 14 Minor Forest Produce 168. India’s First ‘Amputee Clinic’ Items included under MSP Scheme Classic IAS Academy |UG 33-34 Ansal Chamber-1Bhikaji Cama Place | New Delhi 110066 011-45069494 | [email protected] | www.classiciasacademy.com 1. Global Energy and Environment Leadership Award: . Prime Minister Narendra Modi will receive the CERAWeek Global Energy and Environment Page | 6 Leadership Award for his commitment to expanding India’s leadership in sustainable development to meet the country’s, and the world’s, future energy needs. The award will be given to him during an annual international energy conference, which will be held virtually from March 1 to 5, 2021. The conference will be organised by IHS Markit. It is an American-British information provider. The organisation is based in London and it was established with the merger of HIS Inc. & Markit Ltd. in 2016. The organisation combines the information, analytics and expertise in order to provide solutions for government, business and finance. 2. IAF gifts 1971 war helicopter to Bangladesh: . Commemorating 50 years of defeating Pakistan in the 1971 war, Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief RKS Bhadauria gifted a legacy Alouette III helicopter to Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) and got a legacy F-86 Sabre aircraft as a return gift from Dhaka.