Around INDIA
# Ministry of External Affairs to set up "India
Corners" at educational institutions abroad, which will provide authentic
reference material for students who wish to know more about India
# ISRO has started work on building igloos (referred to as lunar
habitats) on the Moon
# CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography (Goa) has announced
the discovery of methane gas flares and active cold seeps from the seabed in
the Krishna Godavari basin in the Bay of Bengal
# Ministry of Railways to install sanitary napkins dispensers at
about 200 major railway stations across the country by International Women’s
Day (March 08)
TAMIL NADU
# Union Defence Ministry started on the work of "Tamil Nadu
Defence Quad"; In the Union Budget 2018-19,it was announced that two Defence
Production Corridors will be set up, in that one will be in Tamil Nadu; The corridor, which is organized as a quadrilateral will extend
from Chennai, Hosur, Coimbatore, Salem and Tiruchirappalli. It is therefore
rightly called the Tamil Nadu Defence Quad
STATES SCAN
# Meghalaya: 67% of votes polled (in 2008 elections it was
88.99%)
# Nagaland: 75% of votes polled (in 2008 elections it was
86.91%)
# Odisha: Chilka Lake in the State has become the single largest
habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins in the world
# Rajasthan: Union Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation,
Ms. Uma Bharati launched the Swajal pilot project at Bhikampura village in
Rajasthan
# Telangana: Chief Minister, Mr. K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced
Rs. 5 lakh health-cum-life insurance scheme for farmers in the State
BILATERAL ISSUES
# 2nd India - Korea Business Summit was held in New Delhi with
the theme "India - Korea: Scaling up
the Special Strategic relationship through Trade and Investments"
WORLD
# Maldives: has declined an invitation to join the MILAN series
of multilateral exercises to be hosted by the Indian Navy
SPORTS
# New Delhi Marathon title 2018: Gopi Thonakal and Monika Athare
retained their New Delhi marathon titles
# Karnataka defeated Sauashtra to win the 2018 Vijay Hazare
trophy
# 66th National Volleyball Championship 2018: Men’s and women’s
final b/w Kerala and Railways
MISC
# Feb 28: National Science Day; theme: "Science and
Technology for Sustainable Future"
- National Science Day is celebrated on Feb 28 to commemorate
discovery of the "Raman Effect", which led to Sir. C. V. Raman
winning the Nobel Prize
# Mountaineer Samina Baig was appointed as the National Goodwill
Ambassador for Pakistan by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
- Samina Baig is the first Pakistani woman who had climbed Mt.
Everest
# Facebook has removed the page of Myanmarese monk Wirathu for
his incendiary posts about Muslims
- Monk Wirathu, a prominent face of Myanmar’s Buddhist
ultra-nationalist movement
