1) Mizoram
won National Games men's football gold:
--> Mizoram’s brave little warriors won
the National Games gold, beating Punjab 1-0 in the final, in front of more than
25,000 enamoured fans in Kozhikode, Kerala.
--> Punjab, for the second National
Games in a row, had to settle for silver.
2) Lakshmanan
and Jaisha bag 5000m golds in National Games 2015:
--> Athletics competitions of the 35th
National Games commenced in Kerala University Stadium on 9 February 2015.
--> O.P. Jaisha won first athletic gold
for Kerala by finishing first in the women’s 5,000m with a new Games Record
time of 15:31.37 (previous 15:54.26 by Kavita Raut of Maharashtra in Ranchi
2011) in 35th National Games.
--> Services got their first gold medal
as G. Lakshmanan clocked a personal best 13:50.05 to win the men’s 5000m race.
His time also bettered the previous Games Record of 14:11.99 held in the name
of Soji Mathew since the Ranchi edition four years ago.
3) Vodafone
India named Naveen Chopra as new COO:
--> Vodafone India on 9 February 2015
elevated enterprise services head Naveen Chopra to the role of chief operating
officer, effective April 1.
--> Naveen Chopra, director -Vodafone
Business Services (VBS), will succeed Sunil Sood as the COO at the Indian unit
of Vodafone Group Plc with effect from April 1, 2015.
4) Govt
gave Gauri Shankar additional charge of MD of PNB:
--> Government on 9 February 2015 gave
additional charge of Managing Director and CEO of Punjab National Bank to Gauri
Shankar, senior most executive director at the bank.
--> Shankar has been entrusted the
additional charge with immediate effect, PNB said in a statement.
--> The post of full time Managing
Director and CEO has been vacant since November, when the then Chairman and
Managing Director K R Kamath failed to get extension from the government.
5) Adani
Enterprises to set up country's largest 10000 MW solar plant in Rajasthan:
--> Adani Enterprises on 9 February 2015
signed a pact with the Rajasthan government to develop the country's largest
solar park in the state with 10,000 MW capacity over the next 10 years at an
estimated investment of about Rs 40,000 crore.
--> The company will set up solar power
project of 5000 MW on its own in the next five years.
6) India's
Ricky Kej, Neela Vaswani won Grammy Awards:
--> Musician Ricky Kej and activist
Neela Vaswani won at the 57th Grammy awards for their work in album 'Winds of
Samsara' and the documentary on Malala Yousafzai, respectively.
--> Kej was declared a winner for his
collaborative album 'Winds of Samsara' in the New Age Album category. The
Bengluru-based artiste teamed up with South African flautist Wouter Kellerman
on the album.
7) Haryana
set to launch Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan:
--> Out to achieve the goal of ‘Digital
Haryana’ and keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies, the Haryana
Government is set to roll out Information Technology Mass Literacy Scheme or
“Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan”, to make the people of the state digitally
literate.
8) New
web based system inaugurated to make Payment Process for NH Works more
Transparent:
--> With the inauguration of a web based
payment monitoring system by the Union Minister of Road Transport, Highways and
Shipping Shri Nitin Gadkari on 9 February 2015, the Ministry of Road Transport
and Highways has made payment process for National Highways (NHs) related works
and services more transparent.
--> Besides, the new monitoring system
will also facilitate easy communication between various offices and allow a
user to track the status of a bill.
9) Cold
storage plant for silkworms in Bengaluru:
--> Union Minister of State for Textiles
(Independent Charge) Santosh Kumar Gangwar inaugurated the newly built,
state-of-the-art, high capacity Cold Storage Plant for silkworm egg at Mysuru
recently.
--> Cold Storage Plant is an
indispensable facility in silkworm egg production system, principally to enable
uninterrupted supply of basic and commercial silkworm seed.
10) Singapore
president Tony Tan arrived in India on 4-day visit:
-->
Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam has begun a four-day state visit
to India recently, as the two countries mark 50 years of the establishment of
diplomatic relations.
--> "This is President Tan's first
state visit to India, and will showcase our longstanding and strong relations
with India as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of
diplomatic relations between India and Singapore in 2015," the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs said.
11) Vinod
Mehta given the highest civilian award by the UP government:
--> The acclaimed Journalist Vinod Mehta
on February 9, 2015 was awarded the Yash Bharti Samman 2015 by the government
of Uttar Pradesh.
--> The award was given by the Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadav to Mehta's family as he could not attend the function
due to a medical problem.
--> This award is given by the UP
government for excellence in literature, fine arts, folks, sports and classical music.
12) 68th
BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards presented:
--> The British Academy of Film and
Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity which aims to support,
develop and promote the art form of the film, television and games.
--> The 68th British Academy Film Awards
were held on February 8, 2015 in London at the Royal Opera House.
13) 57th
Annual Grammy Awards 2015 announced:
--> The 57th Annual Grammy Awards were
announced at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on 9 February 2015.
--> Grammy Awards (originally were
called Gramophone Awards) are the recording industry’s most prestigious award
presented annually by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)
of the United States.
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