*Around INDIA*
# Parliament House will launch a crenche facility soon for women
employees who prefer to bring their kids to the day c are facility
# Central Government has formed a committee lead by Rajiv Kumar
(Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog) to study the Brahmaputra and flood control
measures in Assam and nearby States
# 57% of neonatal deaths in India occur in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
# India successfully test-fired medium range capable Agni-II
missile from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha
# India to host the World Environment Day 2018 celebrations with
the theme "Beat Plastic Pollution"
# Centre is hopeful of getting the Inter-State River Water
Disputes (Amendment) Bill, 2017 passed in the coming session of Parliament to
establish a unified tribunal to resolve all water disputes in the country from
one platform
# Supreme Court asked the Union Government to take a
"Categorical stand" on establishing an independent body to review the
salaries and allowances of Members of Parliament and, possibly, scrap their
post-retirement benefits and perks
# Veteran academic Kapil Kapoor will be the next chairperson of
the prestigious IIAS (Indian Institute of Advanced Study), Shimla
# Former CEC, N. Gopalaswami will be the chairperson of the
empowered expert committee that will oversee the Centre's ambitious scheme of
developing 20 higher education institutions as Institutions of Eminence so that
they can break into the first 500 in world rankings in the next 10 years
# Union Cabinet approved the setting up of a tribunal to settle
a row between Odisha and Chhattisgarh on sharing the waters of the River
Mahanadi
*TAMIL NADU*
# Government has constituted a Staff Rationalisation Committee
(S. Audiseshiah) to identify non-essential posts in various departments to
reduce its revenue expenditure
# Government has constituted a one-man committee (M. A.
Siddiquu) to examine the pleas on pay anomalies, pay revision consequent to the
implementation of the revised pay levels and clarification in the method of
fixation of pay in the revised pay structure and other allied benefits
# Actor Kamal Haasan to launch his political party today in
Madurai
*STATES SCAN*
# Delhi: Government will implement Mission Buniyaad to improve
learning levels of students attending primary classes in the State government
and municipal schools
# Telangana: Government formed a task force headed by Arvind
Kumar on urban mobility to study the feasibility of the monorail model and
other modes of transport or the IT corridor in Hyderabad
*BILATERAL ISSUES*
# Joint military exercise between India and Indonesia “GARUDA
SHAKTI” was held in Bandung
# India – UK joint research projects on “Water Quality Research”
and “Energy Demand Reduction in Built Environment” were launched
*WORLD*
# Israel: successfully test-fired Arrow-3 advanced missile
defence system
# Pakistan: Senate declared Mandarin as one of the official
languages of Pakistan
# Thailand: International military exercise “COBRA GOLD 2018”
was held in Bangkok; 7 countries participated (Thailand, USA, South Korea,
Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore)
*SPORTS*
# Sardar Singh was named as captain of the Indian hockey team
for the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
*MISC*
# Feb 21: International Mother Language Day; theme "Linguistic diversity and multilingualism
count for sustainable development"
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