- Russia launched a major invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, attacking military targets across Ukraine with air and missile strikes and sending troops across borders. Over 100 Ukrainians have been killed so far.
- Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have existed for years as Russia claims Ukraine and opposes its ties to the West, and Russia previously invaded Ukraine in 2014 and annexed Crimea.
- Russia wants guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO, while Ukraine wants to develop ties with the West, fueling the ongoing conflict and tensions. Fighting has been ongoing in eastern Ukraine since 2014.
- Russia launched a major invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, attacking military targets across Ukraine with air and missile strikes and sending troops across borders. Over 100 Ukrainians have been killed so far.
- Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have existed for years as Russia claims Ukraine and opposes its ties to the West, and Russia previously invaded Ukraine in 2014 and annexed Crimea.
- Russia wants guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO, while Ukraine wants to develop ties with the West, fueling the ongoing conflict and tensions. Fighting has been ongoing in eastern Ukraine since 2014.
- Russia launched a major invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, attacking military targets across Ukraine with air and missile strikes and sending troops across borders. Over 100 Ukrainians have been killed so far.
- Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have existed for years as Russia claims Ukraine and opposes its ties to the West, and Russia previously invaded Ukraine in 2014 and annexed Crimea.
- Russia wants guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO, while Ukraine wants to develop ties with the West, fueling the ongoing conflict and tensions. Fighting has been ongoing in eastern Ukraine since 2014.
THE CONFLICT OF UKRAINE-RUSSIA • This isn't the first time that conflicts between Russia EXPLAINED and Ukraine have erupted. Russia had previously invaded Ukraine in 2014, it happened when pro-Putin The attack on Ukraine by Russia is potentially the onset separatists captured major swaths of eastern Ukraine, of war in Europe on top of Russia's behest for an end to and they have been fighting the Ukrainian army since NATO's eastward expansion. The launch of the major the invasion. Russia also annexed Crimea at that time. invasion by Russia on Ukraine, that started with air and • Ukraine has extensive social and cultural ties with missile assaults on Ukrainian military targets before Russia, and Russian is widely spoken there, but those sending troops and tanks across the country's northern, ties have deteriorated since Russia invaded Ukraine in eastern, and southern borders. On many fronts, the 2014. Ukrainian military fought back. In a video speech delivered early Friday, February 25, President • When Ukraine's pro-Russian president lost in early Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that 137 people had 2014, Russia came to an offensive. It is estimated that been killed, including troops and civilians, and that more than 14,000 people have died as a result of the hundreds more had been injured. continuous war happening in the east. Background: • The Minsk peace agreement was signed by Russia and Since the invasion of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine has been Ukraine to end the ongoing violent armed conflict living in fear of war with Russia for nearly eight years. which was going on in east Ukraine, including Donbas Russia and Ukraine have been at odds for a long time, region. However, as the armed conflict continues, with Russia claiming Ukraine as a part of its country and Russia said that it will be sending "peacekeepers" to opposing Ukraine's developing ties to the West. Russian the affected region. According to the , Moscow is using President Vladimir Putin wants to recapture the former it as a cover to occupy sovereign Ukrainian country. Soviet Union Republic. • The rising tension between Russia and Ukraine, which He requested that the Ukrainian military put down their shares a border with the European Union, has weapons. Prior to its cessation in 1991, Russia and ramifications for the European Union. This is why the Ukraine were both members of the Union of Soviet European Union has joined the US in declaration of Socialist Republics (USSR), which consisted of 15 the penalties against Russian firms, the majority of republics. which the NATO members. • Just a few weeks back, French President Emmanuel Genesis of the Conflict: Macron had travelled to Moscow to meet with Russian • The heat between Russia and Ukraine, a former Soviet President Vladimir Putin in an effort to calm down the republic, have existed for a decent amount of time, ongoing tensions. they began to escalate out of control in early 2021. • India is also suggesting for a diplomatic solution, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s President hinted the through talks to the present Russian-Ukraine violent US President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to join the conflict. NATO forces in January of last year. • This Russia is highly infuriated , which began sending soldiers near the Ukrainian border for "training exercises" in the spring of last year and boosted the number in the fall. The US began to hype that there is a deployment of Russian troops, and Vice President Joe Biden had threatened Russia with heavy sanctions if Russia attacked Ukraine. • Russia wants a legally enforceable promise from the US that NATO forces will not conduct any military operations in eastern Europe, especially in Ukraine. According to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, Ukraine is merely a puppet of the US and was never a real sovereign country in the first place.
Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Winter Olympics Games 2022 in Beijing Awards 2022 concludes The prestigious ceremony of Dadasaheb Phalke The closing ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter International Film Festival Awards 2022 was held on February 20. The event was held in Mumbai and the best Olympic Games was held on February 20, 2022, at performances from last year were honoured in the event National Stadium (known as the Bird’s Nest) in this time. This year Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Beijing. The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, was Festival Awards 2022 celebrated the opulence of Indian held from 4 to 20 February 2022. The Games featured a Cinema and also commemorated the 75 years of record 109 events across 15 disciplines in 7 sports. The Independence or Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. venues of the Games were distributed across three zones- Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Role, and Best Negative Role, were among the other titles that Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou. The Presidency of the were given to the personalities of the Indian film Games was formally handed over to Milan and Cortina fraternity. d’Ampezzo, in Italy, to host the 2026 Winter Olympics. Here is a complete list of winners of Dadasaheb The top country in Winter Olympics 2022 in Beijing: Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2022: • Norway has topped the medal table for the second • Film of the Year Award: Pushpa: The Rise successive Winter Olympics, winning a total of 37 • Best Film Award: Shershaah • Best Actor Award: Ranveer Singh for film 83 medals, including 16 golds. This is a new record for • Best Actress Award: Kriti Sanon for film Mimi the most amount of gold medals won at a single • Outstanding Contribution to Films: Asha Parekh Winter Olympics. • Critics Best Actor Award: Sidharth Malhotra • Germany finished second with 27 medals overall, • Critics Best Actress Award: Kiara Advani while the host nation China finished third with 15 • Best Actor in Supporting Role Award: Satish Kaushik medals. for film Kaagaz India at the 2022 Winter Olympics: • Best Actress in Supporting Role Award: Lara Dutta for film Bell-Bottom • The Indian team at the game was represented by one • Best Actor in Negative Role Award: Aayush Sharma male alpine skier, Arif Khan. for film Antim: The Final Truth • He was the country’s flagbearer during the opening • People’s Choice Best Actor Award: Abhimanyu Dasani ceremony, meanwhile, a volunteer was the flagbearer • People’s Choice Best Actress Award: Radhika Madan during the closing ceremony. India could not win any • Best Debut Award: Ahan Shetty for film Tadap medal at the games. • Best Playback Singer Male Award: Vishal Mishra • Best Playback Singer Female Award: Kanika Kapoor • Critics Best Film Award: Sardar Udham Singh International IP Index 2022: India ranks 43rd • Best Director Award: Ken Ghosh for film State of Siege: Temple Attack India has improved its overall IP score from 38.4 per cent • Best Cinematographer Award: Jayakrishna Gummadi to 38.6 per cent, and the country is ranked 43 out of 55 for film Haseena Dilruba countries on the International Intellectual Property • Best International Feature Film Award: Another Index 2022. This index was released by the Global Round Innovation Policy Center of the U.S. Chamber of • Best Short Film Award: Pauli Commerce. In July 2021, the Parliamentary Standing • Best Actor in Web Series Award: Manoj Bajpayee for The Family Man 2 Committee on Commerce released a Review of the • Best Actress in Web Series Award: Raveena Tandon Intellectual Property Rights Regime in India. This review for Aranyak is a welcome development and offers a comprehensive • Best Web Series Award: Candy and detailed study of the strengths and weaknesses of • Best Actor in Television Series Award: Shaheer Sheikh India’s national IP environment. for Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi • Best Actress in Television Series Award: Shraddha The top five countries in the ranking are: Arya for Kundali Bhagya • Rank 1- United States • Television Series of the Year Award: Anupama • Rank 2- United Kingdom • Most Promising Actor in Television Series Award: • Rank 3- Germany Dheeraj Dhoopar for Kundali Bhagya • Rank 4- Sweden • Most Promising Actress in Television Series Award: Rupali Ganguly for Anupama • Rank 5- France
Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 National Affairs • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the ‘Kisan Drone Yatra’, an initiative by Garuda • The Government of India, the State Governments Aerospace Pvt Ltd and flagged off 100 ‘Kisan of Karnataka and Odisha and the World Bank have Drones’ in various cities and towns across India to signed a $115 million (INR 869 crore) Rejuvenating spray pesticides in farms across the states of India. The 100 Kisan Drones were set off in 100 villages in Watersheds for Agricultural Resilience through 16 states across India which includes Uttar Pradesh, Innovative Development (REWARD) Programme. Punjab and Goa. This programme will help national and state • Giriraj Singh, who is the Union Minister for Rural institutions adopt improved watershed management Development and Panchayati Raj, has released the practices to help increase farmers’ resilience to Rural Connectivity GIS Data in Public Domain. This data includes the GIS data for more than 8 lakh rural climate change, promote higher productivity and facilities which have been collected and digitised better incomes. using the GIS platform developed for the PM-GSY • The government of India will be promoting the scheme. ‘Heal by India’ initiative to improve India’s • The Indian Institute of Technology will establish its educational institutions in the health sector. ‘Heal by first branch outside India in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of the India-UAE trade deal India’ initiative is meant to generate job opportunities signed. The Comprehensive Economic Partnership abroad for India’s trained professionals in the health Agreement (CEPA) signed between the UAE and sector and enhance education to churn out quality India will usher in a new phase of joint strategic human resources in health, thus helping them become cooperation in all sectors. eligible to work anywhere in the world. • Jal Jeevan Mission has achieved the significant milestone of providing tap water to every home of • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a 100 districts across the country. Chamba, in 550-tonne capacity “Gobar-Dhan (Bio-CNG) Plant” Himachal Pradesh, has become the 100th ‘Har Ghar in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, through video Jal’ district, the fifth aspirational district to be conferencing. This is the biggest Bio-CNG plant in covered under the initiative. The other four Har Ghar Asia. It has been set up at a cost of Rs 150 crore. The Jal Aspirational districts are Bhadradri Kothgudem, Jayashankar Bhupalpalli, Komram Bheem gobardhan plant is based on the concept of waste-to- Asifabad (all in Telangana) and Mewat in Haryana. wealth innovation. Wet urban household waste and • Sarbananda Sonowal who is India’s union Minister waste from cattle and farm is Gobar Dhan. for Ports, Shipping and Waterways and AYUSH has • Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, inaugurated Nikarshan Sadan” – The Dredging Bharati Pravin Pawar has inaugurated India’s first Museum at DCI campus in Vishakhapatnam. This museum displays models of different types of Biosafety level-3 containment mobile laboratory dredgers, vintage photos & historical milestones in Nashik, Maharashtra. The mobile laboratory will from the Eastern Port City of Vizag. help to investigate newly emerging and re-emerging • Minister of State for Culture & External Affairs, viral infections, by specially trained scientists from Meenakashi Lekhi has released a signature tune for ICMR. ‘Vande Bharatam’. The tune is composed by Grammy Award winner Ricky Kej and Oscar contender Bickram Ghosh. It was produced for Vande Bharatam, Nritya Utsav of Ministry of Culture presented at Rajpath, New Delhi for Republic Day event 2022. It was followed by the fascinating live performance by composers of Vande Bharatam song Ricky Kej and Bikram Ghosh. • Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Giriraj Singh has launched Ombudsperson App for Mahatma Gandhi NREGA. Ministry of Rural Development has developed an Ombudsperson App for smooth reporting and categorization of grievances by Ombudsperson based on complaints he received from various sources viz. physical, digital and mass media, related to the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi NREG Scheme in the States/UTs. 3 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 • Union Minister for Micro, Small & Medium • Nagaland is all set to host the South Asian Athletic Enterprises (MSME), Narayan Rane has announced Federation (SAAF) cross country championship and the establishment of MSME-Technology Centre with 56th National Cross-Country athletics an outlay of Rs. 200 Crore, in Sindhudurg, championships from 26th of next month in Kohima. Maharashtra. The MSME-Technology Centre will Meanwhile, the official mascot of the South Asian provide the best of technology, incubation as well as Cross Country Championships and 56th National advisory support to the industry, especially MSMEs, to Cross Country is a joyous happy running ‘Hornbill’. enhance their competitiveness and provide skilling The name of the Mascot is Akimji – a connotation of services for the employed and unemployed youth of the word AMBITION derived from Sumi dialect of the area to enhance their employability. Naga tribe which exemplifies the ambition of the new generation of Naga youth. States in the News • Northern States Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh International Affairs celebrate their Foundation Day on February 20, • French president, Emmanuel Macron has announced since 1987. Arunachal Pradesh is the extreme that France and its European partners will start the northern part of the country, which is also known as military withdrawal from Mali after more than nine the ‘land of the rising sun’. The state at the edge of years fighting a jihadist insurgency. the Himalayas is proud to be called the land of dawn • Israel successfully tested a new naval air defence and lit mountains. Arunachal Pradesh became the system “C-Dome,” to be used on the Israeli Navy’s 24th state of India. Sa’ar 6-class corvettes. C-Dome is the naval version • Madhya Pradesh Governor, Mangu Bhai Patel has of the Iron Dome, an all-weather air defence system of inaugurated the 48th ‘Khajuraho Dance Festival- Israel to intercept and destroy short-range rockets 2022’ at world-famous tourist destination Khajuraho and missiles, from the Gaza Strip. on the occasion of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’. The • Russian President, Vladimir Putin has recognised the event will be organized till 26 February. This year a independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine 5-km ‘Dil Khel Ke Ghoomo’ marathon was also – Donetsk and Luhansk. Putin’s announcement organized under the banner of ‘Safe Tourism Project paved the way for Russia to openly send troops and for Women’ at the event. It aims to create a sense of weapons to the long-running conflict pitting security among women in tourist destinations with Ukrainian forces against Moscow-backed rebels. the slogan ‘Hindustan Ke Dil Mein Aap Safe Hain’. Russian-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian • Himachal Pradesh gets the first biodiversity park troops in Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014, with to make its contribution towards the conservation of regular violence despite a ceasefire agreement. endangered Himalayan herbs. This park is set to come up at Mandi’s Bhulah valley. With the cost of Agreements/MoUs Signed Rs 1 crore, the biodiversity park is set up under the National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS) by • TransUnion CIBIL has partnered with the HP’s forest department. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & • International Chess Player woman FIDE Masters, Industry (FICCI) to launch a unique nationwide Tanishka Kotia and her sister Riddhika Kotia are MSME consumer education program to support appointed as Brand Ambassadors of ‘Beti Bachao MSME. This program will kick off with MSME clusters Beti Padhao’ scheme for the Gurugram District of in Maharashtra, Assam and Tripura and aims to Haryana. Tanishka Kotia won the Limca Book of reach thousands of MSMEs across key MSME clusters Records for being the youngest chess player in 2008. in India. They belong to the Haryana state. • India and France have inked a roadmap to enhance • Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma has their bilateral exchanges on the blue economy and launched India’s first Night Navigation mobile ocean governance. Dr S Jaishankar is on a three- application for ferry services on the Brahmaputra day visit to France, from February 20 to 22, 2022, to River in Guwahati, Assam. It was developed by the attend EU Ministerial Forum for Cooperation in the State Transport Department in association with K Indo-Pacific scheduled for February 22. The Raju, the principal scientist of IIT Madras. The first agreement on ‘Roadmap on Blue Economy and Ocean night journey of the IWT (Inland Water Transport) Governance’ was signed between India’s External ferry between Guwahati and North Guwahati was Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s and his French started on 19 February 2022. counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian. 4 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 • During the ‘Huddle Global 2022’, the Kerala Startup • A new book titled ‘’The Founders: The Story of Mission (KSUM) has entered into a collaboration Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon with technology major Google that will enable start- Valley ’’, authored by Jimmy Soni and published by ups in the State to join a wider global network that Simon & Schuster released soon. It highlights the provides mentorship and training. This wider story of multinational digital-payments company network enables local startups to leverage Google’s PayPal and how it covered the journey of a start-up programme comprising mentorship and training of that turned into one of the most successful companies of all time, worth over USD 70 billion today. startup teams to help scale up their solutions. • Indian author, Anirudh Suri has come out with his • World Economic Forum (WEF) and the National new book titled “The Great Tech Game: Shaping Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) have signed a Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations.’ It has Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to been published by HarperCollins India. In this book, collaborate on a jointly designed ‘Sustainable Cities the author lays out a roadmap for how any country India program’. The program aims to create an must develop its own strategic plan to succeed in this enabling environment for cities to generate technology-dominant era. decarbonization solutions across the energy, transport, and built environment sectors. Banking/Economy/Business News • State Bank of India (SBI), Punjab National Bank Books and Authors (PNB), Bank of Baroda (BoB), Union Bank of India • The book titled “A Nation To Protect” authored by (UBI), Canara Bank, and Bank of Maharashtra Priyam Gandhi Mody was launched by Union Health (BoM) have announced their subscription to the Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. The book highlights shares of India Debt Resolution Company Ltd the role of PM Narendra Modi during the Covid crisis (IDRCL). Public Sector Banks (PSBs) and Public FIs will hold a maximum of 49% in stake of IDRCL while in the past two years. The book documents the the remaining stake will be with private-sector Centre’s leadership in this unprecedented time and lenders. The NARCL has been incorporated under the how it tided the nation through the crisis. Companies Act, and public sector banks will hold 51 • The book titled “A History of Sriniketan: per cent in NARCL. Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work in Rural • Mastercard, as an extension of its flagship campaign Construction” was authored by Uma Das Gupta and ‘Team Cashless India’ along with State Bank of India published under Niyogi Books ‘Paper Missile’ Payments partnered with the in Lucknow, Guwahati released. The book contains Nobel laureate and Varanasi to boost the digital payments Rabindranath Tagore’s work in ‘village infrastructure. During these engagements, Mastercard reconstruction’ by setting up ‘Sriniketan’, a wing of his Team Cashless India volunteers and SBI Payments Visva Bharati International University at Santiniketan spoke to micro-merchants about the convenience, in 1922, which is also popularly known as a university safety, and other benefits of accepting digital town. It is situated in West Bengal. payments. • Reserve bank of India (RBI) has cautioned the public against carpooling app sRide. The caution against sRide App, stating that this firm was operating a semi-closed pre-paid instrument, without receiving authorization from the central bank, under Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007. • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a US Dollar/Rupee two-year sell-buy swap auction with a view to elongating the maturity profile of its forward book and smoothening the receivables relating to forwarding assets. The Central bank will undertake a sell/buy swap auction of $5 billion, which will enable access to a wider set of market participants.
Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 • On 24th of February 2022, the Reserve Bank of • The Union Bank of India has launched the ‘Union India (RBI) announced that it had cancelled the MSME RuPay Credit Card’ in association with the certificate of registration which was issued to PC National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). It Financial that uses an app called Cashbean to carry is a first of its kind initiative in the industry, to provide simplified and digital delivery of Finance to out the lending operations. This is the first time a Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), to meet regulatory action has been taken against an their business-related operational expenses. organisation in response to a surge in complaints • Brickworks Ratings has revised downwards India’s about multiple digital lenders’ usurious and unjust GDP growth forecast to 8.3 per cent in the current recovery tactics. fiscal 2021-22 (FY22). Earlier in January 2022, the • The Reserve Bank of India recently directed to all rating agency had estimated this between 8.5-9 per the non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) – in cent. Brickwork Ratings is one of the seven Sebi- the middle and upper layers with 10 or more ‘Fixed registered credit rating agencies (CRA). point service delivery units’ as of October 1, 2022 • Global banking group Standard Chartered has must implement Core Financial Services Solution partnered with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to launch a payment platform for (CFSS) by September 30, 2025, similar to the Core the airline industry in India. IATA Pay will be a new Banking Solution (CBS) used by banks. payment option that enables participating airlines to • Telecom operator, Bharti Airtel Ltd has announced offer instant payment options such as UPI Scan and that it has joined South East Asia–Middle East– Pay and UPI Collect (Request to Pay). Standard Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE-6) undersea cable Chartered will be supporting the rollout of IATA Pay consortium, in a bid to scale up its high-speed global in other markets as well. network capacity and serve India’s fast-growing • Bharti Airtel has decided to acquire an additional 4.7 digital economy. It shall be anchoring 20 per cent of per cent stake in Indus Towers from Vodafone the overall investment in the cable system. Group, the company announced. The two companies signed an agreement on the condition that Vodafone • Tata Power has collaborated with Germany-based will use the proceeds to invest in Vodafone Idea (Vi) RWE Renewable GmbH to explore the potential for and the latter will clear its pending dues with Indus joint development of offshore wind projects in India. Towers. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this regard was signed between Tata Power Renewable Appointments/Resignations Energy Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata • Table Tennis player, Manika Batra was named as the Power, and RWE, one of the world’s leaders in brand ambassador of Adidas. The partnership offshore wind. focuses on empowering women to realize their • Paytm Payments Bank Limited has announced that dreams, cheering for women to break barriers and it is an official acquiring partner for ‘e-RUPI boosting participation in sports. vouchers’. e-RUPI, which is a government initiative, • International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ is a cashless prepaid voucher that beneficiaries can Commission re-elected ice hockey player Emma present via SMS or QR Code. Paytm’s merchant Terho of Finland as its Chair and table tennis player partners can then scan, enter the amount to be paid Seung Min Ryu of the Republic of Korea as its First Vice-Chair. The commission also elected cyclist Sarah and receive the payment directly in their bank Walker of New Zealand as the second VC of the account. Commission. • India Ratings has revised downwards its GDP growth • Japanese auto major Honda Motor Co. Ltd. has forecast for 2021-22 to 8.6 per cent from the announced the appointment of Takuya Tsumura as consensus 9.2 per cent projected earlier. According the new President & CEO of Honda Cars India Ltd to an India rating analysis, National Statistical (HCIL) with effect from 1 April 2022. The Organisation (NSO) is likely to peg the FY22 real gross appointment comes as part of the management domestic product growth at Rs 147.2 lakh crore. changes announced annually by the company. • Moody’s has revised India’s economic growth • The Centre government has nominated Sanjay Malhotra, Secretary, Department of Financial estimates in the Current Year 2022 upwards to 9.5 Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance, as a Director on per cent from 7 per cent on stronger than expected the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The recovery after a lockdown in 2020 and Covid-19’s nomination of Malhotra, a 1990 batch IAS officer of Delta wave in 2021. It maintained a forecast for 5.5 Rajasthan cadre, is effective from February 16, 2022, per cent growth in CY2023. and until further orders. 6 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 • Executive Director of the Indian Rubber Board, K.N. Defence News Raghavan has been elected the new Chairman of the • The Indian Air Force (IAF) and Royal Air Force of International Rubber Study Group (IRSG). He will Oman (RAFO) have organised a bilateral air exercise officiate as Chairman of the group for the next two named Eastern Bridge-VI from February 21 to 25, years. He will preside over the meeting of the heads of 2022 at Air Force Station Jodhpur in Rajasthan. delegation scheduled for March 31 at Singapore. Eastern Bridge-VI is the sixth edition of the exercise. • Finance Ministry’s Principal Economic Advisor, The exercise will provide an opportunity to enhance Sanjeev Sanyal has been inducted as a full-time operational capability and interoperability between member of the Economic Advisory Council to the the two Air Forces. Prime Minister (EAC-PM), the panel’s chairman • Indian Air Force will participate in a multi-nation air Bibek Debroy announced. The appointment is for a exercise named ‘Exercise Cobra Warrior 22’ at tenure of two years. Waddington, in the United Kingdom from March 06 • Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) has announced the to 27, 2022. IAF Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas separation of the position of Chairman of the Board will participate in the exercise along with fighter and the CEO & Managing Director of the company. aircraft of the UK and other leading Air Forces. Nitin Paranjpe has been appointed as the Non- • The Indian Navy has received the 12th anti- Executive Chairman of the company with effect from submarine warfare aircraft P-8I from the US-based March 31, 2022. He is currently serving as Chief aerospace company Boeing. This is the fourth of four Operating Officer of Unilever, the parent company of additional aircraft, for which the contract was signed HUL. Sanjiv Mehta will continue to be the Chief in 2016. The Ministry of Defence had signed a Executive Officer & Managing Director (CEO & MD) of contract for eight P-8I aircraft in 2009. However, later the company. in 2016, it signed a contract for four additional P-8I • Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI Bank) has aircraft. informed the stock exchanges that its board has • Three more Rafale fighter aircraft landed in India approved the reappointment of Rakesh Sharma as from France, with Indian specific enhancements. the managing director and chief executive officer With this new arrival of the three jets, the total Rafale of the bank for a period of three years, effective March fleet with Indian Air Force (IAF) has reached 35. The 19, 2022. Sharma’s reappointment as the MD&CEO of 36th and final aircraft will arrive in India from France the bank has received the banking regulator, Reserve by March- April 2022, and will be a trainer aircraft. Bank of India’s (RBI) nod. • The latest edition of the Indian Navy’s multilateral • Dish TV India, has announced the appointment of exercise MILAN 2022 is commencing from 25 Feb 22 Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant as brand ambassador. in the ‘City of Destiny’, Visakhapatnam. MILAN 22 is Pant will feature in the brand’s 360-degree being conducted over a duration of 9 days in two communication for the next two years. phases with the harbour phase scheduled from 25 to • 1995-batch IAS officers and Digital India Corporation 28 February and Sea Phase from 01 to 04 March. CEO, Abhishek Singh as new National e- • Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane has Governance Division chief. The 1995-batch IAS presented Presidential Colours to four parachute officer from Nagaland cadre will hold the position in battalions at Parachute Regiment Training Centre the rank and pay of Additional Secretary. in Bengaluru. The four battalions are the 11 Para (Special Forces), 21 Para (Special Forces), 23 Para, and 29 Para battalions. The award of President’s Colours or the ‘Nishan’ is one of the highest honours bestowed upon a military unit in recognition of its exceptional service to the nation, both during the war and in peace. • The third edition of the joint military exercise “EX DHARMA GUARDIAN-2022” between India and Japan will be conducted from 27 February to 10 March 2022, at Belagavi (Belgaum), Karnataka. The 15th Battalion the Maratha Light Infantry Regiment of the Indian Army and 30th Infantry Regiment of Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF) are participating in this 12 days long joint exercise.
Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 Awards and Recognitions • Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has reconstituted its alternative investment policy • Microsoft founder and philanthropist, Bill Gates has advisory committee, which advises the capital been conferred with Hilal-e-Pakistan, the second- markets regulator on a range of issues that impact highest civilian honour in the country, for his efforts further development of the (Alternative Investment to help eradicate polio in Pakistan. Gates is on a day-long visit to Pakistan and has met with Pakistan Fund) AIF space. The committee has now 20 Prime Minister Imran Khan. He also visited the members. The panel, which was constituted by Sebi in National Command and Control Centre (NCOC) that March 2015, earlier had 22 members. Till now, the oversees efforts to curb Covid-19. committee has submitted three reports on the AIF • Maharatna company of the Government of India, Coal industry. India Limited has been awarded the ‘India’s Most • The PM Cares for Children Scheme has been Trusted Public Sector Company’ award. Coal India extended by the Ministry of Women and Child received this honour at the “Energy Meet and Development of the Government of India till Excellence Award” function organized by Industry February 28, 2022. Previously, the scheme was Chamber “ASSOCHAM” in Kolkata. The company has applicable till December 31, 2021. A letter has been got this honour at a time when Coal India has not written in this respect to all Principal Secretaries/ allowed the situation of power crisis in the country by Secretaries, Women and Child Development, Social significantly increasing coal production and supply in Justice & Empowerment Departments of all States and the last few months to meet the increased demand for UTs, with a copy to all District Magistrates/District coal for the power sector. Collectors. • About 11.78 crore farmers as of February 22, 2022, Summits and Conferences News have been benefitted under the PM Kisan scheme. • Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) of Ministry of The amount worth Rs1.82 lakh crore have been Culture, Government of India is organizing a two- disbursed to eligible beneficiaries across India in day international conference ‘Devayatanam – An various intervals. During the current Covid 19 odyssey of Indian temple architecture on 25th – epidemic period, Rs. 1.29 lakh crore has been 26th February 2022 at Hampi, Karnataka. The Union released. Minister for Culture, Tourism and DoNER, G Kishan Reddy inaugurates the conference. The conference Science and Technology News aims to deliberate upon the philosophical, religious, social, economic, technical, scientific, art and • The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has architectural aspects of the temple. It also intends to approved the Corona Vaccine Biologicals E Ltd’s initiate a dialogue on the evolution and development Corbevax for children in the age group of 12 to 18 of the various styles of temple architecture such as years. Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company the Nagara, Vesara, Dravida, Kalinga and others. Biological E Ltd said its coronavirus vaccine Corbevax, is also India’s third homegrown vaccine. Bharat Schemes and Committees News Biotech’s Covaxin is being given to children aged 15 to 18 years from January 3. • Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare will • The Government of India has organised a week-long launch ‘Meri Policy Mere Hath’ which is a doorstep science exhibition titled ‘Vigyan Sarvatra Pujyate’ distribution drive to deliver crop insurance policies to from February 22 to 28, 2022, as part of the Azadi Ka farmers under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). The campaign aims to ensure all Amrit Mahotsav commemoration. It will be farmers are aware with all information on their conducted simultaneously at 75 locations across the policies, land records, the process of claim and country through a hybrid model. The inaugural grievance redressal under PMFBY. programme was held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi • The Ministry of Education has approved the on the 22nd of February. continuation of the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha • India’s largest 4G mobile broadband and digital Abhiyan (RUSA) scheme till 31st March 2026 with service provider, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. will an expenditure of 12,929.16 crores. The new phase land the next generation multi-terabit India-Asia- of the scheme would support around 1,600 projects. Xpress (IAX) undersea cable system in Hulhumale, Out of Rs 12,929.16 crores of expenditure, the centre Maldives. The high capacity and high-speed IAX will share Rs 8,120.97 crores, and the state will share system will connect Hulhumale directly with World’s Rs 4,808.19 crores. major internet hubs in India and Singapore. 8 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 • The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has Sports News organized a regional farmers’ awareness programme • Mumbai, India will host the International Olympic as part of the ‘Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa’ Committee session in 2023. The IOC Session for (GKMS) project and launched KISAN mobile 2023 will be held at Jio World Convention Centre, application for the farmers. The app will provide Mumbai. The last such session was hosted by India in agro-meteorological services to the farmers. Farmers the year 1983 in New Delhi. In 2022, the IOC session from Haridwar, Dehradun, and Pauri Garhwal was held in Beijing, China. districts participated in the program. • Bihar’s Sakibul Gani become the first player in the • International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has history of the game to score a triple century on his launched a cybersecurity hub in Bengaluru to first-class debut. He scored 341 off 405 balls, address the concerns of its clients across the Asia hitting 56 fours and two sixes, in the Plate Group Pacific (APAC) region. The multi-million dollar IBM Ranji Trophy fixture against Mizoram at the Security Command Center will be located at the IBM Jadavpur University Campus ground, Jadavpur, office in Bengaluru in Karnataka. It is the first of its Bengal. kind facility in the region. The IBM global analysis • India’s teen chess Grandmaster, Rameshbabu report for 2022 states that Asia emerged as the top- Praggnanandhaa has created history as he defeated world number one chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, most targeted region for cyberattacks, representing of Norway in an online chess tournament. The 26% of attacks analyzed in 2021. Airthings Masters is the first of the nine events of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, being held Ranks and Reports from February to November 2022. • According to the latest Hurun India Wealth Report • The 18-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz has clinched the Rio Open tennis title after defeating 2021, the number of dollar-millionaire households in Diego Schwartzman in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The India increased by 11 per cent to 4,58,000 seventh-seeded Alcaraz defeated third-seeded households in 2021, as compared to 2020. A Schwartzman 6-4, 6-2 to become the youngest ATP household having a net worth of at least INR 7 crore 500 champion since the category was created in ($1 million), is referred to as a dollar-millionaire 2009. household. Meanwhile, in the list of cities with the • Indian weightlifter and 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver- most millionaires, Mumbai has topped with 20,300 medallist, Mirabai Chanu has won the gold medal in millionaires households. Mumbai is followed by Delhi the 55kg weight category at the Singapore with 17,400 and Kolkata with 10,500 millionaire Weightlifting International 2022 on February 25, households, respectively. 2022. Chanu lifted 191kg (86kg+105kg) to stand on • As per the ‘Deloitte 2022 CxO Sustainability top of the podium. Report: The Disconnect Between Ambition and Impact’, Indian businesses rank 5th in their concern Important Days for climate change. According to the report, 80 per • The International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is cent of Indian executives see the world at a tipping observed annually on the 21st of February. The day point for responding to climate change compared aims to raise awareness regarding linguistic and with just 53 per cent eight months ago. cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism. The 2022 theme is “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities”. The UN mentioned in its statement that this year’s theme raises the potential role of technology to advance multilingual education and support the development of quality teaching and learning for all. • World Thinking Day, originally known as Thinking Day, is celebrated annually on 22 February by all Girl Scouts, Girl Guides and other girl groups worldwide. The day is observed to think about fellow brothers and sisters around the world, address their concerns and understand the true meaning of guiding. The theme for World Thinking Day 2022 is Our World, Our Equal Future. 9 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 • Central Excise Day, which is observed on February Miscellaneous News 24 commemorates the Central Excise and Salt Act • The Indian Railways has shared new images of the which was enacted on 24th February 1944. This country’s first cable-stayed bridge on the Anji river annual event is celebrated to highlight the essential in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district. The under- role played by the Central Excise Department in the construction Anji Khad bridge, part of the industrial development of the country. Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) • World NGO Day is celebrated every year on 27th project, will connect Katra and Reasi areas through February globally. World NGO Day aims to inspire rail links. The bridge will stand at a height of 331 people to become more actively involved within NGOs metres above the river bed – higher than the Eiffel (Charities, NPOs, CSOs) and encourage a greater Tower in Paris. The total length of the bridge is 473.25 metres and it is supported by 96 cables. symbiosis between NGOs and both the public and • The Union Minister of Science & Technology, Dr private sector. Jitendra Singh, chaired the District Development • World Sustainable energy day 2022 is observed on Coordination & Monitoring Committee (DISHA) 27th February across the world. It hosts events meetings of several districts in Jammu & Kashmir centered on sustainable energy production and use, recently. A key decision taken during the meeting was which covers energy efficiency and renewable energy to designate Lavender as a Doda brand product, to sources for buildings, industry, and transport. promote lavender under the ‘One District, One Product’ initiative of the Modi Government. Obituaries • The Central Government launched the “Janbhagidari Empowerment” portal in the Union Territory of • Senior journalist, Ravish Tiwari has passed away. He Jammu and Kashmir, in line with the government’s was the national bureau chief of Indian Express. He digital mission. The portal was hosted on a different was popular for his political news reporting. Before server with higher bandwidth, in order to provide this, he had also served as Senior Assistant Editor at easy and ready accessibility to the general public. Economic Times, Associate Editor at India Today • Home Ministry has declared Delhi headquarters of and Senior Assistant Editor at the Indian Express. Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd. (SPMCIL) as a ‘prohibited place’ under Section • Noted freedom fighter and Gandhian social worker, 2 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923. This prevents the Shakuntala Choudhary has passed away. She was entry of unauthorized persons into it. It is the only 102-year-old. She was popularly known as currency and banknotes manufacturer of India, that ‘Shakuntala Baideo’. She was felicitated with the printed new series of notes of denomination Rs 2,000 Padma Shri award in 2022 by the Government of and Rs 500 in 2016. India. • Andhra Pradesh Industries Minister Mekapati Static Takeaways Goutham Reddy has passed away. The 50 years old • World Bank Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United Minister returned to India from Dubai Expo. Reddy, States. was a two-time MLA from the Atmakur Assembly • World Bank Formation: July 1944. constituency in the Nellore district in Andhra • World Bank President: David Malpass. Pradesh. He was the Minister for Industries, • Garuda Aerospace Pvt Ltd Founder and CEO: Commerce, and Information Technology in Andhra Agnishwar Jayaprakash Pradesh Government. • Garuda Aerospace Pvt Ltd Headquarter: Chennai, • Veteran Malayalam film and stage actress, KPAC Tamil Nadu. Lalitha has passed away at 74. In a career spanning • Chief Minister of Mizoram: Pu Zoramthanga; five decades, she starred in over 550 films in Governor: P.S. Sreedharan Pillai. Malayalam and Tamil. Born as Maheswari Amma in • Arunachal Pradesh Chief minister: Pema Kha; Kayamkulam of Alappuzha, the actress had joined Governor: B.D. Mishra. K.P.A.C (Kerala People’s Arts Club), a prominent • Himachal Pradesh Capital: Shimla (Summer), drama troop in Kerala. Dharamshala (Winter) • Himachal Pradesh Governor: Rajendra Arlekar • Odisha’s first tribal chief minister as well as last • Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister: Jai Ram Thakur. Congress chief minister of the state, Hemananda • Chief Minister of Haryana: Manohar Lal Khattar Biswal passed away. He was 82. Biswal, a Bhuyan • Haryana Capital: Chandigarh tribal from Jharsuguda district, served as the chief • Haryana Governor: Bandaru Dattatreya. minister twice from 1989 to 1990 and 1999 to 2000. • Assam Capital: Dispur 10 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App Weekly One Liners 21st to 27th of February 2022 • Assam Chief Minister: Himanta Biswa Sarma • Oman Currency: Omani rial. • Assam Governor: Jagadish Mukhi. • Chief of Naval Staff: Admiral R Hari Kumar • Chief Minister of Nagaland: Neiphiu Rio; Governor of • Indian Navy Founded: 26 January 1950. Nagaland: Jagdish Mukhi. • Microsoft Founded: 4 April 1975, Albuquerque, New • Mali Capital: Bamako; Currency: CFA Franc Mexico, United States • Niger Capital: Niamey; Currency: West African CFA • Microsoft Headquarters: Redmond, Washington, franc. United States • Israel Capital: Jerusalem • Microsoft CEO: Satya Nadella • Israel President: Isaac Herzog • Microsoft Chairperson: John W. Thompson. • Israel Prime minister: Naftali Bennett • Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Custom: • Israel Currency: Israeli Shekel. Vivek Johri. • Russia Capital: Moscow • Headquarters of Central Board of Excise and Custom: • Russia Currency: Ruble New Delhi. • Russia President: Vladimir Putin. • Central Board of Excise and Custom Founded: 1 • FICCI Founded: 1927 January 1964. • FICCI Headquarters: New Delhi • Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor: Manoj • FICCI President: Sanjiv Mehta Sinha. • FICCI Secretary General: Arun Chawla. • Maldives Capital: Male • TransUnion CIBIL Founded: 2000 • Maldives Currency: Rufiyaa • TransUnion CIBIL Managing Director: Rajesh Kumar • Maldives President: Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. • TransUnion CIBIL Chairman: M.V.Nair (Chairman). • IBM CEO: Arvind Krishna • Google Founded: 4 September 1998 • IBM Headquarters: New York, United States • Google Headquarters: California, United States • IBM Founder: Charles Ranlett Flint • Google CEO: Sundar Pichai • IBM Founded: 16 June 1911. • Google Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin. • Union Bank of India Headquarters: Mumbai • Mastercard Founded: 16 December 1966, United • Union Bank of India CEO: Rajkiran Rai G. States • Union Bank of India Founded: 11 November 1919, • Mastercard Headquarters: New York, United States Mumbai. • Mastercard CEO: Michael Miebach • Standard Chartered CEO: Bill Winters (10 Jun 2015–) • Standard Chartered Founded: 1969, London, United • Mastercard Executive Chairman: Ajay Banga. Kingdom. • Bharti Airtel CEO: Gopal Vittal • International Air Transport Association • Bharti Airtel Founder: Sunil Bharti Mittal Headquarters: Montreal, Canada • Bharti Airtel Founded: 7 July 1995. • International Air Transport Association DG: Willie • Tata Power CEO: Praveer Sinha Walsh • Tata Power Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra. • International Air Transport Association Founded: 19 • Paytm Payments Bank Founded: 2015 April 1945, Havana, Cuba. • Paytm Payments Bank Headquarters: Noida, UP • Bharti Airtel CEO: Gopal Vittal • Paytm Payments Bank Founder & CEO: Vijay Shekhar • Bharti Airtel Founder: Sunil Bharti Mittal Sharma. • Bharti Airtel Founded: 7 July 1995, India. • International Olympic Committee Founded: 1894 • International Olympic Committee Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland • International Olympic Committee President: Thomas Bach. • International Rubber Study Group Secretary-General: Salvatore Pinizzotto • International Rubber Study Group Formed: 1944 • International Rubber Study Group Headquarters: Singapore. • Hindustan Unilever Ltd Headquarters: Mumbai • Hindustan Unilever Ltd Founded: 17 October 1933. • IDBI Bank Owner: Life Insurance Corporation • IDBI Bank Headquarters: Mumbai. • Oman Capital: Muscat